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Heads up, Newcastle:
When: Wednesday 30 December 2009 @ 11:00am
Where: Borders @ Westfield Kotara, Newcastle
So, if you want your books devalued scribbled upon, and you can't make the signing on the 22nd, now you have a second chance to stop by and entertain me 
Yup, it's a signing opportunity:
When: Tuesday 22 December 2009 @ 10:30am
Where: Angus & Robertson @ Westfield Kotara, Newcastle
I'll be available for at least a good hour1, so if you have a copy of Shadow Queen or Postscripts #18 you'd like me to scrawl on, then stop by and entertain me.
There may also be a signing in Brisbane, since I'm going to be up that way over the Christmas period, and another down in Melbourne in the new-ish year — I'll let you all know more just as soon as I know it.
A quick reminder for those of you in or near Newcastle this Saturday (since I'll be jumping a plane tomorrow morning and may forget to blog tomorrow) that I'm doing a signing at the Angus & Robertson at Westfield Kotara, from 11am.
Come and entertain me!
Have a copy of Shadow Queen you want signed?
Live in (or near) Newcastle?
If so, mark down Saturday 27 June 2009 in your calendar, as I'll be at Angus & Robertson Kotara from 11 am.
At this stage, I have no signings organised anywhere else, but if you don't live in Newcastle and you'd be interested in attending one, you should let me know, either through a comment here on the blog or by email.
A quick reminder to anyone around Sydney tomorrow that I'll be at the NSW Writers' Centre's Contemporary Fiction Festival. Due to my rather hectic and schizophrenic week, I haven't actually prepared what I'm going to say, but I'm sure I'll be brilliant. No, really. Honest. I have a gift for these things.1
This week saw the delivery of my fridge – hallelujah, I can buy milk and eggs and cheese and meat again. And vegetables. I also, after some wrangling with the gas company, have gas, which means I have hotplates and an oven. In the space of 24 hours I went from no ability to store or cook food to subsistence heaven.
Internet is the next hurdle. I am very much looking forward to a true ADSL connection, but at this stage the conversion of my phone line is scheduled for "on or after" 16 April. Yowzer. Looks like it's mobile broadband for a little while longer. So, Internets, please to not be uploading too many fascinating videos in the next fortnight, or you may make my brain explode from frustration. (Who wants to bet I'll exceed my monthly quota within a week, once the connection is up and running?)
I dragged myself awake at stupid o'clock this morning, to get some writing in before the dayjob. I'm sure everyone knows how hard it is to wake up while it's still dark, but let me tell you, it's much harder when you wear contact lenses. They make blinking hurt. Blinking should never hurt.
Today marked the first day of real training at the dayjob; prior to this it's been introductory stuff. Today we tried to wrap our head around the first subsection of the first subsection of the pertinent section of the Patents Act. … I think I broke a synapse. Or, in fact, all of them.
So I shall take this opportunity to mention something I forgot to in my last post: I'll be in Sydney on Sunday 5 April for the Contemporary Fiction Festival. I'll be on the Fantasy panel at 1.30pm, for those who are interested in hearing me blather on about the genre, and whatever else takes my fancy at the time.
My editor at Allen & Unwin, Louise Thurtell, will also be appearing on a panel later in the afternoon, so if you're interested in hearing from a publishing professional who knows her stuff (and how), I'd definitely recommend making time to stop by that one.
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