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Katharine Kurtz CAMBER OF CULDI trilogy hardcovers, the UK Century edition with red spines.

In Wellington, NZ, for a long weekend. Lucky with the weather (sunny and not very windy) and lucky to find these three hardcovers (I have had the paperbacks for many years) in the Pegasus bookshop.

I had a green 1967 Berlina for several years in the early 90s, it cost more each year for upkeep and maintenance than it cost to buy … but when everything worked it was a great car 😀

It is probably not helpful for your brain to add that “snag” is also Australian slang for a sausage, e.g. “Pick up half a dozen snags from the butcher”

Good to see you, Gili. Too briefly! Having my son with me meant I was around the con less than usual.

Great costume!

Snufkin the dog on a red lead, in a park, with a very blue sky above.

Thirty hours door to door, from the hotel in Brighton (UK) to my house in Sydney. A beautiful day here, with Snufkin demanding I immediately take him out for a walk. WFC was fun, great to see lots of people, but there’s no place like home.

My WFC schedule. My reading will be from a new Old Kingdom story titled "Seven Bells" which will be in Jonathan Strahan's anthology THE BOOK OF THE DEAD (2026).
31st Oct
Meet the Author 4:00pm to 5:00pm, sign up at reg desk
Mass Autographing 8:00-9:30pm
1st Nov
Reading (1 of 3 authors) 11:00-12:00

View from a hotel window, Brighton. Early bird arrival for the World Fantasy Convention.

The exterior of the Architectural Association building, Bedford Square, London, showing big vertical banners advertising the Le Guin exhibition.

I dropped into the Word for World exhibition yesterday morning. Not a vast amount of material, but very interesting to see a number of Le Guin’s hand drawn maps and illustrations. I (pridefully and perhaps wrongly) thought her map drawing style very similar to my own.

Two cocktails on a table at the American Bar, The Savoy.

A Penicillin (one of my favourite cocktails) in the foreground, and a “Since 1986” at the Savoy’s American Bar last night.

I am checking up on some details for THE EVEN-HANDED BOOKSELLERS OF EDINBURGH, the next in the series (2027). Easiest to come here and ask them 🤔

On the Royal Mile looking up toward the Castle, with blue sky and scattered cloud.

A beautiful day in Edinburgh. Will it stay that way?

Been ages since I’ve had dinner here, quaffing ale with the likes of Peep O’Day Smilliken, Codger Lewis and Partially-Accurate Toby. Good to see it hasn’t changed. Apart from the addition of Campari.

Americano cocktail (vermouth and Campari and soda water)

Fried eggs, bacon, sausage and a bread roll

The journey of 14,000 kilometres starts with an Americano in the Qantas lounge in Sydney, and ends with a home-cooked fry up in North London

I will! You know I am a fan of Juliet’s Green Man books.

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The World Fantasy Convention program is out. I'm in London and Edinburgh as well as Brighton but apart from WFC I am not doing any events, sorry.
FRIDAY 31st Oct
Meet the Author 4:00pm to 5:00pm, sign up at reg desk
Mass Autographing 8:00-9:30pm
SATURDAY 1st Nov
Reading (1 of 3 authors) 11:00-12:00

I had a great time at Brisbane Writers Festival. A brief, but packed day and a half for me! Thanks to everyone who came along to my four events, my fellow panellists and chairs, the organisers, volunteers and booksellers.

Abhorsen (Old Kingdom Book 3)

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Garth Nix Brisbane Writers festival schedule. You can see this at bwf.org.au

Off to Brisbane Writers Festival tomorrow, for a couple of days. Here's my schedule, I'll be signing after each session.

Hey authors, the official list of Anthropic works is available for searching.

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I’m in there 35 times but there’s another ten or so books missing which I know were in the LibGen database and are also LoC registered, and are from years ago (so the recency thing doesn’t apply.)

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Me too!

I’ll be at WFC for the whole time, but if you can’t make it for the whole duration this is good. (The Friday night mass autographing is always a highlight, if you can only get to one day).

They all hold up to varying degrees, for me. The funnier ones hold up the best. My favourites in no particular order:
Unknown Ajax
Black Sheep
The Toll Booth
Friday’s Child
Cotillion

View from an Adelaide hotel. I’m rarely here at this time of year, I expect it to always be very hot and dry 😀

Three rare silver bell charms, from the Old Kingdom (sort of). Yes, one day I will get more made.

A packet of Charter mark pins, gold and blue enamel. Not real gold.

I found some bell charms. Yes, I was tidying my office (a rare event). So I’m giving them away this Monday at the Writers Assemble event. I also found some Charter Mark pins I will give away on Saturday and Sunday. The (free) sessions are almost full, so book in www.eventbrite.com/cc/writers-a...