Hey, that virtualcon was fantastic. I felt like I was being interviewed with the button stuck on fast forward. By the time it was finished I was exhausted. Reading it over this morning, I see that there were one of two questions I missed in the rush…

You can still go and read it here, amazingly coherent considering the pressure, but there are other authors and editors too.

When I was kid, the telephone was attached to the wall and you stood while answering it. Phone calls were short and to the point. If you rang anyone living outside your own very small post office area, you had to go through an exchange and often had to wait – they would ring you back after they made the connection. And now I can chat online to people from the US, UK and Australia, all at the same time…I love this world.

My thanks to everyone who turned up. I thoroughly enjoyed myself, and if anyone wants me to expand on what was said, just ask…

And thanks so much to all the organisers. If you can get to Conflux, the real con that is, do. You won’t regret it.

Here’s an updated link to the Conflux minicon site with all the guests and the times of their appearance (times given on the site are for Eastern Australia, which is GMT + 10).

Have your questions ready….

And there are periodic lucky door prizes, also a cut rate for Conflux membership if you are lucky enough to be able to get to Canberra.

I am on at midnight tonight…see you!

Pix taken on the Danum Valley canopy walkway

Just so you know what time to come talk to me:

Midnight in Sydney is…
10 p.m. in Kuala Lumpur
3 p.m. in London
10 a.m. in New York
7 a.m. in Los Angeles
4 p.m. in Berlin and Capetown
11 p.m. in Tokyo
SATURDAY 4th AUGUST

And the link again: Conflux!

The organisers of a science fiction and fantasy convention called Conflux, a yearly event held in Canberra – which I would give a lot to go to on a regular basis because it is one of the best cons around – had a neat idea this year.

They are having a mini virtual con before the real thing.
This weekend in fact.
You can come along and hang out with other minicon goers in a chatroom, or you can enter a forum with a published writer or an editor or a publisher and talk to them – well, type anyway …how about that? Different people at different times.

And it’s my turn in the forum on Saturday at midnight Eastern Australian Time for an hour (which is thankfully only 10 p.m. here in K.L., so I shouldn’t be totally spaced out). You can come and chat to me, ask me whatever you like, whine about the state of the fantasy world, whinge about my books…or whatever.

Take a look here for how to be there. Won’t cost you a cent. And I don’t want to sit in the forum all by myself, ok?

This is going to be such fun, and it’s the next best thing to actually going to Conflux…