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A green banner for Octocon 2026, featuring pictures of the guests of hono(u)r, CE Murphy and Adrian Tchaikovsky. October 3 & 4, 2026

EVENT: Reading & Interview tonight!

March 26, 2026

GUYS! EVERYBODY! I ALMOST FORGOT TO SAY! Tonight, Thursday 26 March, at 8pm Irish time (4pm Eastern/noon Pacific), I’m doing a THING! A live reading from BONE & BLOOD along with an interview and a Q&A! It’ll be livestreamed here at YouTube! This is part of my GoH activities for Octocon, the Irish national SF convention, which is the first weekend of October in Cork, Ireland this year. The reading and interview are open to all, with the following Q&A being for Octocon members – but online members count, and…

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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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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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day two books!

Octocon 2017!

October 9, 2017

Octocon was this past weekend, and a fine Octocon it was! I decided to do a dealer’s table at the last minute, and it went…well. I brought jam and books. About…70 jars of jam, and 30-40 books. In fact, I had to restock for the second day, because what I’d brought on day one had sold out to the tune of about 80%, which was sort of Beyond My Expectations. I don’t seem to have gotten a picture of the books on day one, but (first photo courtesy of, by…

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Octocon 2016

October 17, 2016

So Octocon was great fun. I went into it tired (because i was an IDIOT and i got a new phone on THURSDAY and i couldn’t get it to update properly and i stayed up until TWO IN THE MORNING getting it working right, the day before a weekend-long convention started!) and had a panel Friday night so I had to be vaguely functional through that, and more or less was. It was a weekend of selfies because I didn’t have the camera with me a lot because I couldn’t…

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