Hello there internet, how are you? I’m fine, thanks for asking. Sorry it’s been a while since I’ve posted. I’ve been insanely busy promoting Killing Adonis and finishing off the script for the new graphic novel. I’m going to quickly share a couple of highlights from this year’s Supanova festival, because it was one of the best weekends of my life. As a diehard fan of anime, comic books, scifi and video games this whole festival was definitely my bag/jam/cup of tea (bag of jam tea?) Here’s some of my highlights. Apologies in advance for dropping names like I usually drop glasses (frequently, and with much embarrassment).
1 Robin Hobbs educating me on the finer points of bong engineering.
2 Meeting heaps of super enthusiastic fans. After years of tapping away at the keys alone in my room, it’s REALLY nice to meet people who are genuinely excited about this new book.
3 Talking gender in fiction with Robin, Kylie Chan, Steve Worland and Peter Hambleton. It’s a subject that I’m very passionate about and it was great to explore it in this forum. Also I had a few people ask about the ‘ungendered’ story I mentioned: there’s a link here. PS Hambleton loves whiskey. True story.
4 This bullet time photo with all the supanova authors:
5 Alan Tudyk throwing a massive box of maltesers onto the writers’ table.
6 A giant dalek offering the crowd tea and biscuits.
7 Amazing costumes
8 The pineapple.
9 Usurping Matthew Reilly’s signing desk while he was at lunch (sorry Matt!)
10 Getting my ‘yearbook’ signed by some amazing writers and the Supanova staff.
There’s a few more pics on my facebook page. See you next year!
L to R: Kylie Chan, Matthew Reilly, Juliet Marieller, Robin Hobb, Famous Pineapple, Some Total Loser, Steve Worland, Sean Williams, Scott Baker, Ian Irvine, Colin Taber.