Thanks to everyone for a fantastic time at Kinokuniya’s Free Comic Book Day. There was cake. I have proof:
Lots of people brought me cool fan art, which I’ll be sharing with you next Friday.
For you Sydneysiders who missed me, I’ll be appearing twice more in the next two weeks. The first one:
The Aurealis Awards
Saturday, May 12
7:30 for an 8PM start
Independent Theatre
269 Miller Street
North Sydney NSW 2060
The Aurealis Awards celebrate the achievements of Australian science fiction, fantasy and horror writers every year. Kate Forsyth with be mistress of ceremonies, and I’ll be presenting the award for Best Illustrated Book or Graphic Novel.
You can get tickets here.
And the second:
Sydney Writers Festival
A Neverending Story: Fantasy Worlds
Sunday, May 20
11:30AM-12:30PM
Me, Isobelle Carmody, Justine Larbalestier, and Joy Lawn (facilitator)
Sydney Dance 4, Pier 4/5, Hickson Road, Walsh Bay
From steampunk to the supernatural, from urban fantasies to dystopian futures, our love affair with speculative fiction is all-consuming.
Three authors who create imagined worlds explore our enduring fascination with fantasy and unpick the complexities of the genre. Isobelle Carmody, Scott Westerfeld and Justine Larbalestier talk to Joy Lawn.
Here’s the online details for this event.
And finally, here’s a little promo for my sister-in-law’s new e-book start-up, SnappyAnt. Her first app is an animated and read-out-loud iPad version of a picture book called My Mom’s the Best, by Rosie Smith, with illustrations by Bruce Whatley. You know, for Mother’s Day!
It’s all about wee baby beasties interacting with their moms, and is very cute.
Note that in Australia and UK iTunes store, it comes in its original Oz-English version: My Mum’s the Best. (Fight the power!)
You can check it out at the iTunes store.
Okay, that’s it. See you on Friday for FAFF, if not sooner.
May 6th, 2012 07:02
FIRST COMMENT.
May 6th, 2012 07:19
SECOND COMMENT! Crap. Just missed first.
May 6th, 2012 07:56
DAMN IT I DIDN’T GET FIRST COMMENT!!!
May 6th, 2012 07:58
Waaaaaaahhhhhhh
so sad I thought that maybe just once I could get first comment…
May 6th, 2012 07:59
And I just missed scott too
May 6th, 2012 08:01
WHA THE-?! On latest tweets it says Sophie Enns!!! I have a friend named Sophie Enns. But when I clicked on the link and looked at the pic it wasn’t her. Darn.
May 6th, 2012 09:02
Great meeting you Scott, and thanks for signing a copy of your new graphic novel ‘Uglies’ for me:)
May 6th, 2012 19:28
Hahahahaha. How do you write a post and then miss the first comment?
What flavor was the cake?
May 6th, 2012 21:14
LOL that penguin picture!
May 6th, 2012 23:00
Hermionie: Wanna do something fun? Wanna go to Honeydukes?
Harry: No! I can’t go to Honeydukes! I’m on a no-sugar diet! GOD HERMIONIE YOU’RE SO STUPID!!!
Hermionie: /._.\
May 6th, 2012 23:02
Harry: No! I can’t go to Taco Bell! I’m on a no-carb diet! GOD VOLDEMORT YOU’RE SO STUPID!!!
Voldemort: -?
May 6th, 2012 23:02
Yay! I got comment 10!
May 6th, 2012 23:04
Madame Hooch: I want you to mount your brooms. Make sure to hold on tightly. I don’t want you sliding off the end.
Harry: THATS WHAT SHE SAID!!!!!
May 6th, 2012 23:08
Woke up in London yesterday
Found myself in the city near Piccaldily
Don’t really know how I got here
Got some pictures on my phone
New names and numbers that I don’t know
Address to places like Abbey Road
Day turns to night, night turns into whatever we want
We’re young enough to say
OH THIS HAS GOTTA BE GOOD LIFE
May 6th, 2012 23:10
Malfoy: Oi Oi sexy sexy!
Hermionie: WHAT DID YOU SAY???
Malfoy: *blushes* Um… I said she’s way prettier than Pansy Parkington
Hermionie: …that’s better.
May 6th, 2012 23:23
Ginny-la, that’s starting to get annoying
May 6th, 2012 23:43
I hope there will be videos of the events.
May 7th, 2012 03:05
@16-NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER
May 7th, 2012 03:05
-LAND
May 7th, 2012 03:21
Snapes on a plane
May 7th, 2012 03:22
Yay comment 20!
May 7th, 2012 03:35
Nooooo i just missed you!!!!! And now, you’re probably at the FAF one. THE ONE I JUST LEFT!!!!
May 7th, 2012 17:27
Happy late birthday, Scott!! Yay for cake!
May 8th, 2012 06:09
Oh, so all the Sydneyers get to see you and we don’t. I see how it is. Iowa not good enough for you?
May 8th, 2012 06:44
@Middy Miles:
I feel your pain. My state always gets skipped.
May 8th, 2012 07:31
So today some of my friends did a report on electrical energy and guess who they talked about? Nikola Tesla, the madman! And then I squealed this really loud fangirl squeal and was all like “TESLA!!!!” and everybody looked at me like “What is it with you and Tesla?!”
May 8th, 2012 08:55
@10,11,13,15- LOL. Major time.
May 8th, 2012 09:17
@25- He came to Washington when Goliath came out. The convention he was at was one my dad had told me I should go to, but I didn’t end up going. Also, then I hadn’t read them and so, Scott Westerfeld had no significance to me. Still, it would have been AWESOME to actually see him, in the flesh.
May 9th, 2012 00:53
You will be sharing Fan art with us next Friday but how ’bout sharing some of that cake
May 9th, 2012 03:19
Why does the cake say birthday happy? Well Happy Birthday Scott-la!
May 9th, 2012 04:08
Today is Katniss Everdeen’s birthday…haha
May 9th, 2012 07:40
@30-Cuz it’s Scott’s birthday! Duh!
May 9th, 2012 07:43
Heh… I went to check this blog on my birthday, and opened it to find a picture of a birthday cake. Guess who was a bit disappointed? Ah, well. A new Scott Westerfeld novel is a good present
May 9th, 2012 07:46
Hi
May 9th, 2012 07:46
Tali are you here? I need someone to talk to.
May 9th, 2012 07:47
@29-If you really think about that it sounds kinda wrong
May 9th, 2012 07:48
Deck the halls with red berry shrubs that prefer acidic soil…tra-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la!
May 9th, 2012 07:49
Has anybody read the sci-fi book “Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed”? Its good.
May 10th, 2012 06:14
hey scott! i know this is not related to this blog post but I am doing a project and I was looking on your fact sheet for info about ur childhood. if you have time and see this comment (….) could you tell me where you went to grade school or schools since you moved a lot. Thankss!!!
May 10th, 2012 08:06
When are you going to talk about the art book for the Leviathan series?
May 10th, 2012 15:52
@36 I am tired of looking out for what sounds wrong and obviously, I didn’t think about it…
May 12th, 2012 04:37
Im listening to Hatsune Miku…I cant understand it(its in japanese) but its catchy!!!
May 12th, 2012 04:54
*SOBSOBSOBSOBSOBSOSOBSOBSOBSOBSOBSOB* I just watched “Paper Plane” by rin and len (vocaloids) SO SAD SO SAD its about this boy (Len) who lives as a prisoner in a barrack and this girl (Rin) who has a disease that she knows will kill her. her dad works at the barracks. she sneaks out of the hospital every day to see the boy. they talk by sending paper airplanes over a barbed-wire fence. the dad finds out and rips up all the airplanes (which have messages on them) and locks up the boy. the girl dies from her disease and the boy dies from sadness. *SOBSOBSOBSOBSOBSOBSOBSOBSOBSOB*