Tonight is the event detailed in my last post, the first Attack!!!! live night at Cafe OTOI'm very excited and not a little nervous with its being the very first one ever - hopefully the first of many more. I can't wait to see Tony demonstrating the brand new iLog up close, to seeing Lawrence and Holly read, to Ben's "Man and Ultraman" piece (which ( Read more... )

Please all come.


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I need more things for the next Attack!!!!. The deadline is tomorrow, midnight.

TELL ALL THE GENIUSES YOU KNOW.

Tell them about this.

I've amended all the current deadlines for Attack!!!! submissions after realising right at the last minute that I've been advertising them all one step out on the myspace.

This is most pertinent for issue 10, whose deadline was meant to be today: there's actually an extra month now to get writing, artwork and music in, by May 31st.

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The brandest, newest issue of Attack!!!! magazine is now out.


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Deadlines and details of what anyone has to do if they want to try their hand at contributing to Attack!!!! magazine between now and the end of 2009 are up here. Please help Attack!!!! by drawing the attention of any brilliantly talented people you know to that page ( Read more... )

Last week I discovered that my mother's paternal grandfather, Captain William Hichens, was the author of seminal African Cryptozoology text "African Mystery Beasts" and also a translator of a number of Swahili poems.

He was the world's foremost expert on a giant lion called the mngwa


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Why do so many literary and bookish projects have such lame titles? As if writers really don't have a clue what to do with words after all. I suppose this at least does what it says on the tin.

I am very glad to be able to say that a copy of Volume the Fifty Fourth (Which is Found on the Library Floor) is, from today until April 18th, being ( Read more... )