On Friday 23rd at 8pm I’ll be reading from The Lost Girls of Foxfield Hall and doing a Q&A online with Octocon. The details are all here. Hope to see you all there.
Category Archives: Octocon
Octocon Online
This weekend is Octocon weekend and of course because this year is a hell year things are different. But far from cancelling (how could they have cancelled???)
This is Octocon’s 30th anniversary, Guests of honour are Michael Carroll, and founders Helen Ryder and Phillipa Ryder.
No, THIS YEAR it’s ONLINE.
And there’s even more good news. It’s FREE!
You can access it through the miracles of technology and all the details can be found on the Octocon site here
The full programme is here. And this is what I’m up to…
Hope to see you there!
Octocon 2019
On Sunday the 13th of September we’ve having a mini-Octocon (just the one day – I think everyone is still exhausted after Worldcon). All the details are on the website and the programme is now up.
I’m absolutely delighted to be a guest, especially as the theme is fairies! And I’m also there as Jessica Thorne so looking forward to talking about Sci-Fi Romance as well. You can find out what I’m up to here and the details are below. It’s an amazing line up. I hope to see many of you there. Come and say hello.
11am The Fae in Popular Culture
2pm Author Readings
3pm
5pm From the Terror in the Night to a Bedtime Tale
Octocon 2019
Octocon 2017
It’s that time of year again! Octocon is almost upon us and I have my schedule for the weekend.
Of course, I’m going to be around for much of the weekend as well. You can see the full programme here. There are so many things I’m looking forward to! And that YA Panel on Friday night? Look who’s on it! YA PANEL OF JOY!
Magpie Encounter at Octocon
I had such a wonderful time at Octocon including the somewhat surreal experience of meeting one of my own characters! Fantastic Magpie cosplay, including threats of violence, weapons and menace.
A writer’s dream come true. Or possibly a nightmare…
Hoping for a relatively quiet Halloween weekend but next weekend I’m up in Ardagh for the Frightfest! Here’s hoping I don’t get followed!
Octocon 2016
It’s that time of year again and this weekend it’ll be Octocon, in the Camden Court Hotel, Dublin. Here are the panels I’ll be taking part in over the weekend. I’ll have copies of my books on sale in the tradehall as well and I’ll be happy to sign them for you. I’ll also be hanging out and going to some of the amazing other panels. Really looking forward to it. The full schedule is available here.
Book launch madness
Just wanted to say thanks to everyone who helped to celebrate the launch of A Darkness at the End the other night, both on the group and in a virtual space as well. It was a fantastic night and I couldn’t have asked for more.
Particular thanks to Sarah Rees Brennan who, despite threats, didn’t shame me at all 😉
(Next time, Sarah, next time).
Bob has signed copies in the Gutter Bookshop, and so too do our friends as the National Leprechaun Museum. There will be more popping up in various bookshops as and when I get there (I’m on a mission).
Failing that I’ll be at Titancon at the end of the month, and at Octocon in October. Signing pen will be at the ready. All three books are available from all good bookshops, on and offline, now. Keep a lookout for the very rare, collector’s item that is the wings badge!
#YAieDay and Octocon
So, #YAieDay is on Twitter tomorrow, a day when we celebrate all things YA in Ireland, and I’m going to be on from 1.10-1.50 swearing… sorry “talking” about swearing with Kim Hood and Sally Nicholls. Follow the #YAieDay hashtag on Twitter and the full (amazing) lineup and programme is here. Thanks to the marvellous Michelle Moloney King for putting this together.
And then, next week it’s Octocon. And the programme is now up online too. Another brilliant line up of people and lots of YA here.
So this is what I’ll be up to.
Busy busy busy…
- Friday, October 9
7pm
Ireland as a location
A. Tivoli/Yeats, 7pm – 8pm - Saturday, October 10
1pm
As the creator Intended?
C. Gaiety, 1pm – 2pm - 3pm
Historical Inaccuracies.
B. Abbey, 3pm – 4pm - 7pm
Late Night Panel: Sex In Fiction/Erotica
B. Abbey, 7pm – 8pm - Sunday, October 11
2pm
A Fantasy of My Own
A. Tivoli/Yeats, 2pm – 3pm - 3pm
Irish Mythology And Its International Spread
A. Tivoli/Yeats, 3pm – 4pm - 4pm
Readings from our Authors featuring Planetfall by Emma Newman
B. Abbey, 4pm – 5pm - 5pm
Practical Magic: Perspectives of Pagans, Gamers, and Fantasy Authors
B. Abbey, 5pm – 6pm
The whole programme can be found here. Come along and say hello! I will probably be the person rushing between panels but say hello anyway! 😀
Worlds Beyond!
So, a little while ago, I was part of the Worlds Beyond on PhoenixFM 92.5FM, sponsored by Octocon, and I ramble quite a lot about all sorts of things writing and fandom. It’s an hourlong show, hosted by the wonderful Janet O’Sullivan and I’m there from about the 30min mark. You’ll also hear Janet and John Vaughan discussing the Golden Blasters.
You can listen here in all its glorious rambliness*.
*rambliness just applies to me, naturally. Everyone else is very to the point and fascinating. 😀