i’m off to melbourne tomorrow. fly out of perth at 3.05pm and don’t get back till monday at 8.15am. i won’t be checking email or whatever during that time, so if you don’t hear from me, i’ll be having a good time and will get back to you on monday morning.
if you’re going to be in melbourne too, then i hope to see you at continuum. i’m on two events:
saturday 16 july
10.00 am Small Press Publishing
Small Press Publishing is a field of increasing importance within Australian genre writing. Are there too many small presses or is the market just beginning to open up? A look at the Australian market and what it takes to become part of it.
Cat Sparks, Sarah Endacott, Jonathan Strahan, Mitch
7.00pm Harper Collins Voyager 10th Birthday Extravaganza
HarperCollinsVoyager presents an evening of entertainment in celebration of their 10th Birthday.
come along if you can. otherwise, feel free to look me up. there are a lot of people going to be there, and a lot of people i really am eager to catch up with.
i got home today and a copy of scott’s blue noon was waiting for me. yay! i then opened the copy and found a printing flaw through the first 200 pages of the galley. there’s about a one to one and a half inch wide faded band diagonally across the bottom third of each page. you can make out most of it, but it’s not easy. still, i got it. so much for talking to robin on the plane. i’m gonna be readin’ :-)
I just heard the news that Byron Preiss was killed in a car crash on Saturday. Terrible, shocking news. I didn’t know him well – we’d met twice (once in Washington at World Fantasy and once in Boston at WorldCon) – but he seemed like a kind, decent man who was passionately committed to what he was doing. He obviously loved what he was doing, but when we talked family, it was equally obvious he loved them even more. We did two books together, and were set to do a handful more. My thoughts go out to his family and his friends.
are you going to continuum? i am. i fly out of perth next thursday with robin, and will be sharing a room with nagoya boy, which is going to be huge fun. i’ve got a friday meeting, a saturday panel on small press (which should be ok), a saturday evening thing for the cool folks at voyager, and dinner with some friends sunday night. otherwise i’m free till i leave early monday morning. i look forward to seeing everyone who’s going to be there.
