Gen Con starts tomorrow and you have to register for the events. Because the maximum is 40 - some of my events are full.

See you soon! 

Marianne De Pierres

Gen Con Australia Schedule

All events are one-hour long unless noted.

Thursday, July 3^rd

Hot Tips for Fiction Writers

Featuring Ian Irvine, Marianne De Pierres, Sean Williams

Time: 12 PM; Location: Seminar Room F2

Antagonists! Building a Better Bad Guy

Featuring Ian Irvine, Kylie Chan, Marianne De Pierres, Sean Williams

Time: 2 PM; Location: Seminar Room C2

Signing: 3 pm- 4pm

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Friday, July 4^th

Someone Else’s Playground: Gaming and Fiction

Featuring Marianne De Pierres, Kyla Ward, David Carroll, Stephen Dedman

Time: 1 pm; Location: Seminar Room F1

Signing: 2 pm – 3 pm

Australian Writer Showcase: Science Fiction and Fantasy

Marianne Kylie Chan De Pierres, Ian Irvine, Sean Williams, Simon Higgins

Time: 6 pm; Location: Seminar Room C2

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Saturday, July 5th

After the First Draft: What comes next?

Kylie Chan, Marianne De Pierres, Sean Williams

Time: 10 am; Location: Seminar Room F1

Living in a Dark and Dangerous Futures

Featuring Stephen Dedman, David Carroll, and Marianne De Pierres

Time: 4 pm; Location: Seminar Room F1

Signing: 4 pm – 5 pm

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Sunday, July 6^th

The Mistakes Most Writers Make

Marianne De Pierres, Kylie Chan

Time: 10 am

Location: Seminar Room F1

Signing: 11 am – 12 pm

Question and Answer: Marianne de Pierres

Time: 12 pm; Location: Seminar Room F1

Well I knew that the Perth crowd would be great - but they were better than that - they were awesome! I had many, many cool conversations with people that called past the stall. The seminars were the same - lots of interesting questions. Caught up with Ju and Kendra and the Swan-conners. Also had a lot of fun hanging out with the other guests. Nichelle Nichols is just a beautiful lady in every sense of the word. Jewel and Matt and Kandyse were cool, talented people. Sean Schemmel and Lisa were wonderful. Ultimately though its that sense of family that Supanova gives me that I really cherish - Danny and the Z's, The Cool Shite boys, Fallon Mafia and Missy and Fel the dudettes. I love to see them all each time. And then of course there was my 'real' family who came out and supported me: Nicci, Simon, Ben, Lorna and Kersh and Anne and Thomas. And my long time mates Jule and Simon, Jo and Grant. Ieva who I haven't seen since I left school, little Erin who has grown up from 9 to 19 in a blink of an eye ... and a bunch of others.    Roll on next year!

Well it starts today and I'm feeling less like choped meat than I did yesterday after an early morning flight and several days worth of preparation to get away. The Novatel is a nice pub and I did the room service/sleep thing last night after being picked up by my big sissie from the airport. See you all at the Claremont showgrounds!

I've neglected to mention that Russia is running a steady third every month (after Oz and Spain) on my web hits. I hope this means that Russians are enjoying the first two Parrish books which have been published there in the last couple of years.

I'm home recuperating before setting off to Perth for Supanova part 2 on Friday. The inaugural Paeth event should be great fun and I'm looking forward to seeing my family and friends.

I took my oldest son to see Yunyu perform at the State Library last night for a Creative Commons event. He was very impressed.

Innate Malk has posted a sighting in Melbourne

Below are pics from Friday night dinner:

Kate Forsyth and MDP

Maxine McArthur, Kate, MDP and a horizontal Margo Lanagan

Matt Carter and MDP