Monday 30th May, 2016

I missed a couple of weeks. I’m not entirely sure how that happened. Did I mislay them? Are they really just hidden under the sofa or something?

Anyway, I am returned from Satellite 5 [External Link]. This time around, I’m apparently patient zero for everyone else’s con crud (I started showing cold symptoms on Friday evening. Sorry.) and I continue my spotless record of not killing or drawing blood from any of my co-presenters for a “HEMA for writers”-type demonstration. So, thanks to the Satellite 5 team – and to my co-presenters Cameron Johnston [External Link] and Rob Adams [External Link]. Our sibling-in-ink, Ruth EJ Booth [External Link] captured some photographic evidence and you can see a piece of it here:

My quick round-up wouldn’t be complete without mentioning the rather impressively omnipresent Neil Williamson [External Link], who seemed to be everywhere, and Jaine Fenn [External Link], the Guest of Honour who was spotted almost as often as Neil. Thanks both for the conversation. Oh, and Neil has a competition on his blog to win a copy of his new collection of stories.

As Satellite 5 was in Glasgow, I also came back with a couple of bottles of whisky. They weren’t both for me but I did have help selecting them from yet more Satellite 5 attendees, Brian M Milton [External Link] and Sharon Dennett. Munchkin (yes, we really call him that) has just had a story published in this weekend’s KZine [External Link] and you can have some of that as it’s free on Kindle and I’m not sharing the alcohol!