Award-winning SF/fantasy/horror writer Tanith Lee died in 2015. Her house, in a quiet residential area of Hastings, UK, is now for sale. It is a detached property with a huge, lovely, wild garden. It's a very large house by UK standards, with two bathrooms and five bedrooms (including Tanith's workroom). It does need some modernisation, so is ( Read more... )

Award-winning SF/fantasy/horror writer Tanith Lee died in 2015. Her house, in a quiet residential area of Hastings, UK, is now for sale. It is a detached property with a huge, lovely, wild garden. It's a very large house by UK standards, with two bathrooms and five bedrooms (including Tanith's workroom). It does need some modernisation, so is ( Read more... )

We would like to congratulate Gillian Polack, who is the winner of GUFF 2014.

We would like to thank all the candidates for running an excellent race.  We had over 100 votes cast, and the revenue from voting was $1332  in Australia, €78 (minus PayPal fees) and £95 (minus PayPal fees) in Europe.  In addition there were auctions held at several ( Read more... )

Ten years ago today I made my first post on LiveJournal.  It's been a great community over the years.  It's sad that's it's not what it was in its heyday, but I'm glad it's still around and I'm planning on being here a while longer.

Mihaela and I are very pleased to be able to announce the candidates for GUFF 2014 ( Read more... )

GUFF Call for Nominations

GUFF is the Get Up and Over (or Going Under) Fan Fund which transports SF fans from Australasia to Europe (and vice versa).

Nominations are now open for the northbound race, to transport an Australian fan (or fans) to Loncon 3, the 73rd World Science Fiction Convention, to be held at the ExCel, London Docklands in the ( Read more... )

GUFF - The Gone Under Fan Fund

Call for Nominations

GUFF is the Going Under (or Get Up and Over) Fan Fund which transports SF fans from Europe to Australasia (and vice versa). Nominations are now open for the southbound race, to transport a European fan (or fans) to Conflux [bit.ly/qoaFb9], the 2013 Australian National Convention (NatCon), to be held ( Read more... )

Leece tells me that cafepress is having a sale which affects some of the fundraising items.  30% off some of the t-shirts!  And it doesn't affect the funds raised.  (If I understand correctly.)

It's only on until midnight PST (that's sometime tomorrow local time).

http://www.cafepress.com.au/dd/65709292

Part of the reason I was so excited about winning GUFF is that I get to go to the memorial even for Diana Wynne Jones (my most favourite writer ever).  I decided that I'd like to wear something special in memory of DWJ to the memorial in April.  I have no artistic talent, but leecetheartist does does, and is a DWJ fan to boot!  She took some ideas I had and ( Read more... )

Only a few days to go until voting for GUFF closes! I'd love to be the candiate who goes to Eastercon in the UK in 2012 and you can find out a bit about me and why I'd like to go here:

http://members.iinet.net.au/~tesseract/KylieDingGUFF/KylieDingGUFF.htm

You can find me at Genghiscon on the weekend to vote, or vote online here: http://aspspider.info ( Read more... )