Blogflog - London Here I Come!

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Link: London Here I Come!
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My first signing in England will be August 7, at Forbidden Planet in London from 1700-1900. See you all there!



London, here I come

I will also be appearing at Nine Worlds on August 8 in London.

Saturday 8 August.

• 15.00- 16.00 – Kaaffeklatch


• 17.00-18.15 – “The dead will rise again” (Resurgence of Gothic Literature)


• 18.30 – 19.30 – Book signing


• 20:30-21.45 – “The F-Word in Fantasy” (Sex in Fantasy)

So for all you fans that have been asking, “When will you do a signing in Europe?” These events are for you, so come out and see me, because I’m finally here and I don’t know when I’ll be back.

Comments

[openidwouldwork.livejournal.com]

btw... what is this 15.00- 16.00 – Kaaffeklatch thing? Is that something British? American?

[amamelina.livejournal.com]

I'm not 100% positive what a real Kaaffeklatch is, but the single convention I go to every year has a few of them. If I go by that, they seem to be informal question and answers with an author (or other person of honor) in the morning hours over coffee and pastries. I think it's a bit more British than American, but I can be wrong.

[openidwouldwork.livejournal.com]

A 'real' Kaffeeklatsch is a meeting of women of equal status in society to gossip in the afternoon and have coffe and cake. Goes back to the bourgeoisie in the 18th century.

[amamelina.livejournal.com]

Well, I learned something new. I always thought it meant "coffee and pastries".

[suzycat.livejournal.com]

I always thought it was some kind of American German thing.

It does not exist in my land, which attempted to be Little England for a very long time.

[openidwouldwork.livejournal.com]

Hm, really interesting to look at these kinds of developments... how customs, social significance and entire meanings shift...

... that might be used to explain the glaring differences between 'real' animal and therian behaviour, but only if they retain their ... hm... human fail (?) when shifted...

Hm... *ponders*

[northernwalker]

It's German originally and American English adopted/stole it. Traditionally, women would get together in the afternoon and gossip and eat pastries and drink coffee- that's where the name comes from. Kaffee= coffee, klatsch=gossip.