30th Arthur C. Clarke Awards! [IRL Adventures]

Did you know you can buy tickets to the Arthur C. Clarke awards? Neither did I. So I bought one. AND YOU KNOW WHAT? It was pretty cool.

My photos are all a bit crap as the phone I’ve been using since I got my phone stolen was an old one where the camera was a bit trashed and damaged… SOZ.

Books 09/2016 [Crowdfund THIS]

I’m back with more publishing projects that need YOUR help on Kickstarter!!

This time it’s a good handful of books that are close to their goals or deadlines…

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Comics 09/2016 [Crowdfund THIS]

I want to try something new here. Crowdfunding through Kickstarter and the like is a really cool way to get book or comic anthologies published, as well as single books either by indie authors or indie publishers!

So I’ve decided that with this new lil’ category that I’d feature a few cool projects that are currently running, and even a few that are independently sold on websites like Gumroad with every post.

THIS POST has comic projects on Kickstarter that are still running and need your help!!!

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Monthly Roundup ↪ Aug💂💷

Oh August. What a weird month you’ve been.

I landed in the UK on the 3rd and then got sick like a day later from ye olde Travellers Flu/Cold. Which then lasted something around 2 weeks. But I powered through that and even went to the Nine Worlds convention, in which I also was part of a Star Trek roundtable!!!

And when I FINALLY RECOVERED, I spent the weekend up in Edinburgh visiting some friends! Which was of course super gr8, but as soon as I got back to England I got sick. AGAIN. And that has taken me about a week to recover from. Which of course was SUPER.

Did I mention I also got my phone stolen OUT OF MY HAND within the first week of being back in the UK? Thanks August. That was… Interesting.

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5 GBBO Fiction Fixes [Literary Lists]

Tonight I watched the second episode of the latest season of the Great British Bake Off. Which I’m sure everyone knows is the most stressful and adrenaline pumping baking show in the history of the world.

So in honour of this new season, I thought I’d compile a list of books – and a few comics! – that will surely curb your cravings for GBBO in-between episodes.

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POKE MANGO [Book Tag]

No mangoes were hurt in the answering of this tag.

Tried that #Pokemango that everyone’s on about, while on my lunch today. Don’t really get it, tbh… pic.twitter.com/0r51bRNLHF

— Thought Bubble (@ThoughtBubbleUK) July 12, 2016

 

Tag created by Aentee at ReadAtMidnight.com!

Return to Labyrinth Manga : AKA I Hate Myself [Picture Break]

If you know me well enough you’ll know that my love for David Bowie runs incredibly deep. And in high school, a few of my friends and I got SUPER obsessed with the film, ‘The Labyrinth‘. Starring none other than Bowie himself.

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For the uninitiated, the film is from the 80s and is about a girl called Sarah who ends up wishing her baby brother away to the goblin king, Jareth, and realises she wants him back. To do so she has to get through the goblin kingdom in time and in the process learns about herself and makes friends with all sorts of creatures. These creatures are lovable and beautiful creations by Jim Henson and Brian Froud.

In 2006, Tokyopop published a manga series that was meant to be a sequel to the film in which the baby brother of Sarah, Toby, is now a teenager and ends up returning to the Labyrinth??? Honestly I’m not that sure what it is about because I know it is terrible.

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Monthly Roundup ↪ July👌

So this is late and I know that. BUT I HAVE SOME VERY GOOD EXCUSES!!!

1. I was packing a lot and doing last minute things because my flight to the UK was first on the 31st of July and then moved to the 3rd of August.
2. I got sick almost as soon as I landed in London.
3. My phone got stolen on like my 6th day in the city while I was looking at flats.
4. Now it’s the 2nd week of August and I went to the Nine Worlds convention.

4 EXCUSES IS GOOD ENOUGH!!!!!!!!

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Gnossem Nights Ft. Amanda Lee Koe + Kirsten Tan [IRL Adventures]

A while back I went to a little Q & A night with Amanda Lee Koe, who is one of my favourite local authors. I had no idea what to expect, but it ended up being a lot of fun because the filmmaker, Kirsten Tan, who is also a good friend of Amanda’s, was the other half of the panel.

Monthly Roundup ↪ June🌤

This month I decided to change things around a bit and focus a bit more on reading graphic novels and comics that I’ve had piling up for AGES, but never got around to reading. Some of which were ‘given’ to me by Net Galley in return for a review. Which is always a fun surprise, seeing as I usually haven’t heard of them!

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