I am now officially recovered from #BristolCon and who is now up for #WorldFantasyCon @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social ?
I am running a panel on the Occult and Supernatural, and giving a reading with @poopraven.bsky.social and meeting all sorts of disreputable folks...
and selling books #booksky
Me with Luke Scull & Tammy, Patrick Samphire and Mark Lawrence in the background
To Munro, me, JE Hannaford and Patrick Samphire
Oh, there's picture proof of me surviving a panel on #SPFBO at #BristolCon!
The wonderful guest of honor
@hannafordjenny.bsky.social moderating, @tomunro.bsky.social and @patricksamphire.bsky.social jumping in at the very last minute!
The whiskey definitely helped with smoothing nerves...
Me and a stegosaurus! (JE Hannaford in a stegoraus costume)
Me holding a copy of Magic, Maps and Mischief, with David Green
T.O. Munroe sitting on a panel
Me and and Bav (Chair of the convention)
Well another @bristolcon.bsky.social has been an utter blast, even if it was a bit smaller than usual.
So many books, so many drinks, so many amazing people, old and new friends and just so much fun!
Tomorrow it is off to Brighton, to another long Convention weekend!
#BristolCon
While I decided to give it a rest this year, I'm so glad people have been having a great time at this year's BristolCon. Chance managed to put in my way the means of an early bird booking. So hope to see most of you next year!
#writingcommunity #BristolCon #BookSky💙📚
Hoorah for the #BristolCon team @bristolcon.bsky.social for another enjoyable, wide ranging, friendly geekfest.
Posts to come....
On a wooden table, with various items in the background, a tall glass dome. Under the dome, there is a painted starship attached to a gantry. The starship itself has a spindly fuselage, with three engines around its stern, and a ring outside those. The ring is supported by pillars on the gantry
A rather fine present from #Bristolcon. It's a model of the Andy Bigwood Speedbird in its landing dock
Now we have to get it home
I had an early start today (I was driving down to Bristol for #Bristolcon) but thanks to One Weird Trick my body clock is less bothered by it than it would have been any other day of the year.
A new Publishing Rodeo? What an unexpected and wonderful surprise, on the way home from #Bristolcon.
We were the last dealer out of the room at #BristolCon
For logistical reasons, everything had to go up to our room tonight and we will move it and our personal luggage down to the car when we check out tomorrow morning.
Status report, "OK, What Do I Do With This" dep't: Chatting with Linda Stratmann at #BristolCon. Told her how I'd misread the title of one of her books (*Sherlock Holmes and the Persian Slipper*) as "Sherlock Holmes and the Persian Stripper." (snerk) a COMPLETELY different case. 😏 Oh gods...
Spent the first day of #BristolCon lamenting my missing emergency cookies, and first thing in day two I found them on the Book Swap table, where they must have fallen out and confused potential swappers. (Really should have checked there!)
Smiling woman with reddish brown hair, wearing a gold tiara and a gold and silver necklace, a blue dress and dark blue tights, light blue trainers, and a membership badge from BristolCon.
Smiling woman with reddish brown brown hair, a tiara, gold framed glasses with pink highlights, a gold and silver necklace, red and gold earrings, a blue dress, and a cross body handbag with pins on it with an happy girl bursting out of an egg, a she/her pin, and one that says “girls just want to have fun.”
The Sunday look for #BristolCon. Sensible trainers today. Still happy! Will be at the Wizards Tower Press table most of the day except for my 2 PM panel about AI and copyright.
Made it to the first panel of day two at #BristolCon - good thing we had that extra hour!
At #BristolCon and mentioned Raffles, P G Woodhouse and Sarah Waters and found to my shock there were people there who had not read Tipping the Velvet. I do not deploy the word genius lightly.
Pass the smelling salts!
#sapphic #LGBT #literary #classic #booksky.
Blue skies Iver a church steeple and trees
Looks like it's a blue skies thinking kind of day here in the vicinity of St Mary Radcliffe on the second day of #BristolCon
I'm heading over to #Bristolcon for the day, and I am extremely excited to be going to a convention I am not involved in running!
Thank you, #BristolCon, for once again arranging for an extra hour’s sleep for everyone. 🛌
Wait. How many dinosaurs are in Bristol?
Even at a con? Asking for anyone else as curious as I am.
Also, I am not at #BristolCon so I've no idea.
Happy con, Diane!
A bluesky banner for a BristolCon 2025 starter pack on bluesky, showing icons of me, Cheryl morgan, gareth l powell, adrian tchaikovsky, diane duane, juliet mckenna, and cavan scott.
Compiling a starter pack of @bristolcon.bsky.social 2025 people, please let me know if there's anyone I'm missing / if you'd like to be added!
go.bsky.app/Rt7bnBj
#BristolCon
real lgbt rep at #BristolCon
@letzoespoilyou.bsky.social: lately I've been really into giant space slugs trying to fuck pretty guys
Me: really? Recently I've been very horny about the Cold War
Status report; “Questions You Ask Yourself On The Way To Bed” Dep’t: “Wait, *who* was that dinosaur I just kissed? ….*Oh.”* ☺️ #BristolCon
Doing Octopus’s Garden at Karaoke with a bad scouse accent to hide the fact that I can’t really sing. #BristolCon
BristolCon today where the giant sci-fi writer, Mark Iles, remained sitting so I wouldn't look like a midget.
#sciencefiction #BristolCon
Anyone I know at #BristolCon I haven't seen yet? Bit smaller this year so plenty of time for chatting.
Almost forgot to actually go to a panel! #BristolCon
Smiling woman with red-brown hair, a gold tiara, wearing a brown sweater dress, and a Montreal Worldcon 2027 “Canadian Content” ribbon on her name badge.
Showing the flag for Montreal Worldcon 2027 at the Wizard’s Tower table at #BristolCon
Looking down on a round circular crate like roof that resembles the main weapon of the death star in Star Wars
I seem to have been given the hotel room overlooking the Death Star construction site
#bristolcon
Just signed 10 of my books at Waterstones Bristol - had to borrow a very non-grimdark pen to do it!
#bristolcon
