Pain. Loss. Grief. Sorrow. Anger. Disbelief. These are not the emotions you usually expect to be bombarded with on your social media. But that was what was rolling over the internet yesterday as news broke of the death of Sir ...

On and off over the last few years, I’ve been following the adventures of a blogger called Mark Oshiro. Mark reviews books and TV that are popular (and makes fun of bad fanfiction), and gives chapter by chapter, or episode ...

Intro When organising an event, a lot of the large and small issues encountered can be solved by settling early on a theme. I’ll be looking at the benefits for both the host and the attendees. For all events the ...

Before Twilight, vampires were cool. They were edgy and sexy and everyone secretly wanted to be one. Most of my free time recently has been taken up by vampires. Not through the medium of books, film, TV or graphic novels ...

HO HO HO! Terry Pratchett’s Discworld* has its own fan traditions. I love watching what can happen when you put a lot of Discworld fans in a room together, and Hogswatch is one of the many events where this phenomenon ...

A weekend away with a difference When I tell people I’m going to a Discworld Convention, there are usually just three responses: What? Nerd! Ooh…can I come? What? Discworld* is a fantasy world, on the back of four elephants on ...