The London world premiere to Ghosts With Shit Jobs is sold out, apparently! But for those of you with tickets, I’ll be doing a Q&A afterwards. (Those of you without, there’s other ways to see it soon!)
Apr 302012
Appearances
Apr 302012
Hey, I’m taking part in this youth initiative that looks pretty good! More deets here.
BFI Future Film and SCI-FI-LONDON Present… Micro Budget Sci- Fi Filmmaking – May 5th, 12:45
Join us for a Q+A with Directors Jim Munroe (Ghosts with Sh*t Jobs), G B Hajim (Strange Love) and Sloan U’Ren (Dimensions) as we discuss the future of sci-fi on film, and making sci-fi movies on a micro budget. Our panel will also be giving feedback on sci-fi shorts made by young filmmakers that will be screened as part of this event.
May 052011
I’m going to be doing a talk and workshop in Holland next week on DIY promotion and videogame making. Should be fun! Continue reading »
Sep 212010
Fantastic Fest, the amazing-sounding genre film fest in Austin, has added a game component and invited me to be on their advisory board. As if that wasn’t flattering enough, they’re flying me out to speak on a few panels. Continue reading »
May 022010
The amazing TCAF is happening May 8-9th. Reasons to go, organized via flavours of nerds:
Comix nerds: It’s got an amazing array of international talent and all the local lights as well.
Book nerds: It’s at the newly renovated Toronto Reference Library, with new rooms and facilities to wonder at.
Game nerds: The Torontron will be there alongside the Hand Eye Society table.
No Media Kings nerds: Shannon and I will be there selling & signing Sword and chatting on panels
Cheap nerds: It’s free. Continue reading »
May 022010
We’re driving over to Detroit to launch the book in the city it’s set in on Saturday May 15 (7pm, Leopold’s Books, free) with Gayla Trail. Continue reading »
Apr 082010
Our graphic novel, a stand-alone follow-up to Therefore Repent!, is launching as a part of the Toronto Comic Arts Festival on Thursday May 6th, 7pm, Tequila Bookworm (512 Queen Street West, upstairs), free. Continue reading »
Apr 082010
I’ll be doing a few panels at Ad Astra this Saturday April 10th: Continue reading »
Feb 092010
Due to a confluence of many factors (Boston is the ancestral home of Zork and MIT, an active IF community in the area, and the launch of the IF documentary GET LAMP) PAX East is looking to be the largest gathering of interactive fiction authors ever. Continue reading »
Jan 172010
I’m super-flattered to have been asked to talk at the world’s most respected games conference. Continue reading »
Nov 102009
I’ll be tabling at the excellent zine fair Expozine this weekend Continue reading »
Oct 152009
I’m producing another Artcade at Canzine on Nov. 1st with the Hand Eye Society. Continue reading »
May 012009
Me and Shannon will be at TCAF to debut the first issue of our Sword of My Mouth, the follow-up to my and Salgood’s Therefore Repent! graphic novel (which had an awesome debut at the last TCAF). It’s already gotten a couple nice reviews (here and here at minute 42 or so) so I’m looking forward to seeing what people think in person! Plus, Shannon will have some of the art from the book available for the event as silkscreened prints, and believe me, she knows a thing or two about silkscreening (google it if you doubt me). Need more incentive? TCAF is one of the best comic fests in the world, it’s free and it’s at a huge downtown library this year. Check it out!
Mar 192009
I’ll be attending the amazing GDC next week. I’ve been commissioned to write a text game about my experiences for GameSetWatch, where I’ll be guest blogging during the conference.
Oct 202008
I’ll be selling $4 copies of Time Management for Anarchists and helping host the Artcade indie videogame room at Canzine. Continue reading »
May 182008
I’ll be at my fave conference all weekend, mixing it up with some of the smartest weirdos around. Continue reading »
Apr 172008
En route to my favourite SF convention Wiscon, I’m doing a launch/signing at my favourite zine store Thurs. May 22, 7pm: Quimby’s. Continue reading »
Apr 122008
I’m moderating a panel on writing and publishing genre fiction at the library with Emily Pohl-Weary (Strange Times at Western High), Kristyn Dunnion (Big Big Sky) and Paul Hong (Your Love is Murder, or The Case of the Mangled Pie). Continue reading »
Oct 192005
A couple years back they started having Canzine at the rather amazing Gladstone Hotel, a flophouse-turned-artspace in the heart of Parkdale. It was already a huge, eclectic zine fair, and now, if you had an idea for something beyond tabling your zine that needed a bigger canvas, you could get a room — and lots of interesting stuff ensued. This year, to mark the fifth anniversary of No Media Kings, I’m checking into Room 214.
And boy, do I have plans for this room! I’ll be launching my DVDzine Novel Amusements #5: The Games and Shames Issue with microscreenings; I’m hosting three very casual themed meetups for people into self-publishing books, touring, or videogame-making to chit-chat; and I’ll be moderating two more formal discussions, an indie distribution thinktank and a panel on collaboration: Are You Too D.I.Y.?
It’s all happening Oct. 30th at 1214 Queen St. W. in Toronto, check the schedule below for exact times. Everything’s free.
UPDATE: I recorded the collaboration panel: pics and MP3s now available.
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Jun 082005
A lot of science fiction writers grow up going to conventions, but I was writing SF seriously for over a decade before I went to my first one. (Why pay $50 to go to a hotel in the suburbs when I could go to a punk show downtown for $5? went my thinking.) But Emily was so enthusiastic about WisCon that I decided to go… anything that billed itself as the World’s Only Feminist Science Fiction Conference had be be interesting, at least.
Who knew that feminism and SF would be two great tastes that go great together?
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