I am very excited about the potential of Cheltenham having a comic book convention in 2015, so really really hope this kick starter works out!
They need 5500 by the beginning week of March and are over the 1500 mark. You can by your tickets to attend on the kickstarter or like me buy a stall. Kickstarter only takes your money if the target amount is made so if they don't the extra money I'm not going to have a stall to sell my things at.
Of course I would have loved a pair of the shoes they are offering as a reward but alas and alack, I am not rich!
There are some funky peeps from the comic book world down as guests (as you would expect!) and there will be professional stalls etc...
Apart from the fact that this is a social or community venture, I am excited about this because it gives me a deadline. I have stuff that can go on the stall anyway - namely The Little Books but I would like to run a save the Wiggly Pets campaign and/or get the first part of the Punk comic / graphic novel out there.
So yeah that's the plans 🙂 London peeps etc... you would be welcome to stay at our house if you came up for this - as part of the kick starter you can buy tickets - did I mention that already? 😉
Also cosplay stuff!
Yep it is that time of year again when the poets get writing! I am once more in charge of the WoPo site this year for the WoPo poetry a day writing challenge.
The sign up is now open so come and join us (me and Alaric will be doing the challenge, as will Jeany).
Also I have had a request to round up some of the writing ideas and hints on WoPo and The Monster Blogs so I will attempt to get some sort of ebook out there for you guys, can't promise it will arrive before the end of the month as I have an exam and course work but we will see!
Anyway I have some exciting guest bloggers set up for the month a head and some lovely images for the writing exercises and then there are the give aways 🙂
So I am being a bad Mummy and being stressed - we have a broken home at the moment and budget wont stretch to a party outside the home so we decided to postpone Mary's birthday celebration - she is not old enough to know different.
But we did have a little picnic tea with her - Daddy made her special pizza she can eat and she opened the cards and presents that arrived in the post.
I also made cake pops in the afternoon with her.
She likes cake.
Thursday I headed off to Bristol with the lovely Nick Short, the aim - to read poetry at the Art House. We had a little bit of trouble finding it, the Art House is a lovely little cafe with a cellar/entertainment area. There are arty pictures on the walls and yummy foods to be had.
There were some wonderful musicians playing, I especially liked the Vampire guy though I failed to get a photo of him 🙂
We bumped into an old friend from Cheltenham who had also come up and ended up in a conversation with a woman at the end who wondered why we'd come all the way to Bristol to perform. It is a weekly event at the Arts House and Bristol simply is bigger and has more to offer was the answer. Cheltenham has a great poetry scene but it is not weekly or even every night like it is in Bristol. We spoke of the poetry society and the Festival and then moved on to art in general.
I read an arch of poetry starting with a Fist Full of Nitro and ending with Star Stuff. From the individual and depressing to the optimistic future of all was the way I saw it.
It was a lovely night.
The painting is called Lonely Christmas and is part of the painted advent I am doing, I like the concept and the colours but... I don't think it quiet works - nor unfortunately do my plans for The Little Book of Festive Poetry amongst other things. Basically there are new VAT laws coming in and they seem stupid complicated and so for now like many many authors I am having to currently put a hold on selling ebooks 🙁
But you can still listen too it here.
Art and Craft, Books, Events and Outings, Sarah, Society, Wiggly Pets, Writing | sarah | 
Fri 7th Feb 2014 10:59 am | 
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