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Announcements!!!

October 17, 2025

ANNOUNCEMENT 1: I will be GUEST OF HONO(U)R at Octocon in Cork, Ireland, along with the inestimable Adrian Tchaikovsky, over October 3-4, 2026! This is an excellent excuse to visit Ireland, right? :D (Seriously, it is: Octocon is an intimate, cozy little convention where you really get to spend time with everybody, and I’d LOVE to see people there!) ANNOUNCEMENT 2: Speaking of cozy! I have just signed the contract for A PINT OF MURDER, a new cozy mystery set in Ireland! I’ll be writing under the name Cate Malone…

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Glasgow Worldcon schedule!

August 6, 2024

Okay, this is where you will ABSOLUTELY FOR SURE find me over the weekend, because these are the things I am definitely scheduled for: Beyond that: I get in mid-afternoon on Thursday and have no sense of when I might actually get to the con. Hopefully by half five or so, but who knows. I believe I have dinner plans of one kind of another sorted out for Thursday already, so I’m gonna assume this will not be a super great day for just hanging out. FRIDAY: 9am: minor ambitions…

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A-conventioning I go

October 8, 2023

This weekend I went to the National Irish SF Convention, Octocon, for the first time in *years*. Since 2017, I’m pretty sure. It was lovely to see everyone. I wasn’t sure until Friday that I was going at all, so I didn’t mention it to anybody except one friend, so people were Very Surprised Indeed to see me, and almost immediately upon arrival I was invited to do a panel, which was both flattering and funny. Furthermore, to my delight, the panel was with my friend, the magnificently talented Sarah…

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Worldcon 77: The Monday

August 27, 2019

Clearly by the Monday of Worldcon I was too tired to even be writing about it a week later. :) I’d actually been doing very well up until the Monday morning, really. I hadn’t been getting enough sleep, but apparently going home to sleep in my own bed made a real difference, because I didn’t get properly incoherent until Monday, and usually Saturday afternoon is when that sets in with these long cons. I forgot that on Sunday (I think) I was sitting around chatting and our illustrious guest of…

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Worldcon 77: The Sunday

August 24, 2019

I actually still have the event app on my phone so I can even REMEMBER what I was doing on these days. Sunday I had an interesting panel, “Fantasies of Irish emigration,” about why so much fantasy–especially urban fantasy–seems to get written ABOUT Ireland without much of it being set IN Ireland. I called out RF Long as somebody who’s written UF both in and about Ireland, and I think there were a couple others I could think of, but it was a really fun panel (and my friend Deirdre…

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