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Having a fabulous time --thank you Australia!
Panels, lunches, drinks, interviews, dinner, panels, schmoozing, book launches, fabulous HarperCollins dinner at French Restaurant: drinking drinking drinking....

Room party spurred by Dirk Flinthart's gift of some excellent Tasmanian sparkly. Good snacks, weird snacks, beer, wine, talk talk talk drink drink drink.
I threw everyone out at 2am and today, a wee bit hungover --the restaurant wine was fab, the Tasmanian "champagne" was fab, but I don't think my guts were too happy about the combo, along with a lovely (but heavy) French meal.

Off to panel, lunch, panel, award ceremony...

More details to come.
Cat Sparks and others have been taking photos.

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swancon 2011

Here's my schedule in Australia pre-and during Swancon. I'll be visiting friends in Melbourne for a few days before I get to Canberra and touring a bit of the west coast with Kaaron Warren and her family after Swancon and then hanging out in Perth for a few days before flying home May 4th

Thursday 21 April-Canberra University (University Drive, Bruce)
Interview with short fiction editor Ellen Datlow

Place: Teaching Commons, Building 1, above the UC Refectory
Time: 12-30 to 1-30
Date: Wednesday, April 20

Midday - Guest luncheon (details for booking available to members soon)
7.00pm - Opening Ceremony
8.30pm - Writer/Editor/Reader Relationship Jonathan Strahan with Ellen Datlow, hosted by Cat Sparks

Friday 22 April

2.00pm - Kaffeeklatsche
3.00pm - Darkness Beyond Borders with Kaaron Warren, Kirstyn McDermott, Ellen Datlow and Paul Haines

Saturday 23 April

8.30am - Breakfast with the editors, hosted by Ellen Datlow and Jonathan Strahan

11:30 The mid-list crisis and the cult of celebrity authors" Ellen Datlow, Justina Robson, Kirstyn McDermott

2.00pm - Ellen Datlow Interviewed by Kaaron Warren
7.30pm - Masquerade

Sunday 24 April

3.00pm - Fairytales in Today’s World with Angela Slatter, Ellen Datlow, Jenny Blackford, Richard Harland, Amanda Pillar

7.30pm - Orbit Gollancz Natcon Fifty Awards Ceremony (I along with the other GOH, will be handing out the awards)

Monday 25 April

3.00pm - Clarion Call. Moderator: Kate Eltham. With Ellen Datlow, Robert Hoge, Cat Sparks, Justina Robson
4.00pm - Closing Ceremony

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I can now announce that I'm a Guest of Honor at Swancon 36 in Perth, Australia, 2011. I'm very excited to return to Perth. I was there in 1995 co-guesting with Pat Cadigan. It was my first time in Australia and I was overwhelmed by the generosity of everyone involved and surprised in the crossing interests of the attendees--the readers/gamers/etc all mingled far more than at US conventions. That was also the first time I traveled to Sydney and Melbourne. Since then, I've had the opportunity to see more of the continent.

I thank the con committee for inviting me, and I look forward to hanging out with Justina Robson, who was a Clarion West student of mine many years ago, and Sean Williams, who is one of my favorite people. And I look forward to meeting the fan GOH Sarah Xu.

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