Thursday, June 04, 2009

Conjecture 2009

I am surfacing from my Pit of Editing [TM] (cesspit, maybe...?) to let those of you in the Adelaide vicinity know that I will be doing a reading and what they call an 'author appearance' on Saturday 6th June (this Saturday!) at this year's Conjecture Spec Fic convention.

Details as follows:

Saturday 2:30 - 3:30
1st floor Holiday Inn, Hindley Street, Adelaide

...then at 5:30 at same venue I will be helping to launch Richard Harland's most excellent new truly steampunk offering, Worldshaker, a novel definitely worth your time to read (I liked it so much they put what I thought of it on the cover). Along with this book I cannot recommend highly enough Richard's WritingTips website. You can even download a .pdf of the entire document for free FREE FREE from the site. Richard is an absolute legend for producing it, so go see, please! It is an veritable mine on the whole process of this thing called writing, from getting going to getting published - I have certainly learnt a thing or twenty from it.

Lots of excellent folks will be there all weekend, so, please, if you are able, come along.

(Apologies for short notice & to those who are unable to come even if they wanted to because they happen to live in another city or country...)
... Oh, & I will get answering on your excellent previous post questions very very soon, honest.

14 comments:

Alyosha said...

Thanks for the book recommendation. I'll definitely get a copy when it comes to the states. And, speaking of coming to the states, please do post the news if you're ever going do a reading here. I realize that you'd not likely come all the way here for that purpose alone, but, if you have some other reason to travel to the US anyway...

portals said...

Ooooooooh.
That's Today!

D.M. Cornish said...

A visit to you all in the US of A and Canadia is certainly on my mind, just a matter of time and, well... money. Love it to happen, I can tell you that, and you shall be the first to know here when it does.

ineto: the unit of the measure of motionlessness.

Anna said...

And Europe I hope and a certain smallish country uo north?

I´m trying to persuade the Gothenburg book- & library fair to invite you to their annual happening.

I Certainly would travel the long way, seen in swedish eyes, up to Gothenburg to see you.

monday said...

international book tour! come on! and you HAVE to come to europe now that I've [temporarily] changed continents!

Klesita said...

Aah Master Cornish, I can't believe my luck... I have not commented lately because I was in a conference... in ADELAIDE of all places and since I had never been there I decided to stay an extra week; I just came back to Brisbane today Sunday 7. I didn't even ask if you were going to be out and about during my time there because I didn't think you were surfacing since you are in the middle of editing. Next time I guess...

For those interested I had to give up the old English version of 'le morte d'Arthur' and read the translation (still the same book but in modern English) 'olde Englsih is so weirde'. But even the translation is very tortuous, I'm hanging in there still though.

portals said...

Klesita - How long is the original story? The translation is very slow.

portals said...

Mr Cornish - Did you meet anyone there?

Klesita said...

The edition that I was trying to read (a reprint of an eighteen hundred edition) was two books of about 500 pages each, I managed to get to page 40 or thereabouts I think (it took me 3 weeks thought). The version I'm reading now is not much smaller (still two books of about 400 pages each) and apparently they left the syntax unchanged they just 'modernised' the spelling so it is still pretty winding and sloooooow.

portals said...

Klesita - I salute you.

monday said...

ditto. press on, bold human.

portals said...

Best way to get government funding?

monday said...

waah. commenting is slow.

let's get into another argument. that usually sparks some interest.

D.M. Cornish said...

Doesn't help when the person who is supposed to be running this is so not around *rolls eyes*