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Halfway through Pelquin's Comet right now - and loving it! (y)

Hello! Just popping on to let forum members know about this, if you don't already. The Science Fiction Foundation (SFF), the British Science Fiction Association (BSFA), and the Imperial College Science Fiction and Fantasy Society (ICSF) will be holding a joint 2015 mini-convention on...

What an absolutely brilliant con! Had such a great time. I had a gloomy Monday and I'm very bluesy this Tuesday. Can't I hang about with my writer and reader friends every day? No - waaaagh!

Oh... and this is a weird one... but basically I have been unable to run for a while due to a knee injury. I'm recovering now, but I've only got 2 weeks before a 10km run. If anyone is feeling intrepid, there is a 5km run at 9am on Saturday in Brighton Park. It's free to take part, but if you...

Indeedy - looking forward to seeing you! Oh and your new Titan editions are looking gorgeous!

I am doing some poems on Saturday night at the poetry thingy. I imagine everyone else will be in a bar somewhere. Hope they let me know which one...

Hugs, Sue x We'll have an excellent time there whatever x

Actually I think this is it - 7 ship street. https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?oe=&q=brighton+east+sussex&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x48758509f6294167:0x9cc6af7a727d0ef9,Brighton,+The+City+of+Brighton+and+Hove&gl=uk&ei=S2lBUvWDCsHE4APBwIG4Cw&ved=0CLsBELYD

I don't know the name either - but blue and white tiles, with one entrance towards the front and another to the side (right-side, facing), cafe running to behind the counter and a few tables and chairs outside.

Blooming heck! £15 for fish and chips! Luckily, I know of a chippie on the seafront that does amazing fish and chips. As for the hot drinks... I think I'm bringing my travel mug.

Incidentally, I'm not blaming the committee or saying they shouldn't charge anything necessarily - I think they chose to have the coffee available, and then they passed on the charge, but I can't claim to know the actual costs or processes involved. All I know is, I will be partaking of as much...

I will be going to WFC, arriving Friday morning, leaving Sunday afternoon. I am surprised that they have decided to charge for KKs, but relieved that at least all parts of the hotel are now accessible... (hopefully I'll be fully mobile by then, but right now, I can't use stairs very well)...

I'll be there... on a few panels, at the BSFA Award ceremony, at the BSFA desk, and erm, in the bar. Hair may be purple, or it's habitual chatain clair (mouse).

Brilliant stuff! Stop distracting me with your stories, though - I have to do something about Awards...

I always used double quotation marks for speech because that's what I was taught in school... as an editor/proofreader I have to look at the style guide of the publisher I am working with, but more often than not, this is not something the publishing house will be checking on with unsolicited...

I sometimes find online newspaper style guides quite invaluable. They're often contradictory, but still... Collins Good Punctuation is a good little guide. Some writer friends also recommend Lynne Truss's Eats, Shoots and Leaves, but I haven't read that one myself. ...incidentally, see what...

I think Troo just found a good source for conflict! Something to work with anyway... This may not be what you intended in the outset, but with your characters being quite young, I think your book sounds as though it might have good YA appeal. I would give it a go and try to write it, and...

I just started Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein. I felt I had to read something by him. Okay so far if I ignore the warning *beep* *beep* negativity towards women alarm in my head. Oh and the fact that it mentions Martians.

SJAB - if you're travelling by train from Staffordshire, what journey have you got worked out? I'm just wondering because trainline says from Wolverhampton, I have to go to reading then take a bus. My other half has plans to go from Bedford, which will mean me travelling to that parts of the...

Sounds fab to me, Freda! See you at Eastercon!