unconventional

I had a fantastic couple of days at the NZ SFFH convention. I got to meet a metric truckload of great people, both writers and fans of genre fiction, and now my brain is full of story ideas. I almost wish the timing

were a little different, as I’m now heading back to North America for a whirlwind cross-countries road trip to see folks from that part of the world, and I suspect my writing time is going to be severely limited.

I hope the momentum from all the great conversations I had and people I met will carry on past my trip. I suspect I’ll be getting poked and prodded from some of my new contacts in the NZ spec fic world if it doesn’t!

I’ll be attending unCONventional, the New Zealand SF convention, June 1-4 in Auckland.

I’ll be pretty busy over the weekend. I’m participating in a few panels:

• Overpopulation in SF (Saturday 10am)
• Armageddon as Allegory (Sunday 9am)
• Getting Published (Sunday 10am)

I’ll be doing a reading Sunday at 3pm, and I’ll head over to the group signing after that. I plan to have a few dead tree books for sale, and possibly some method for selling an ebook bundle as well. The complete convention schedule is here.

I also plan to be at the SpecFicNZ gathering and gnereally wandering around the con. If you’re going to be there, drop me a line at darusha@darusha.ca or just find me and say hi. I’ll probably* be the one with the blue hair.

*Probably, because it may have faded to green by then and I might not be the only one.