Tehani Croft Wessely's Blog, page 37
March 2, 2012
Another week!
Life flies by. Sometimes all too quickly, as when you find out that friends are about to leave us far too soon (we'll miss you Paul). But it marches on, regardless.
In dot points:
starting to feel like I have a handle on things at work – have been madly deleting VHS tapes and vertical files from the catalogue this week, and disposing of them by various means. This has led to emptying many shelves, which is a good start. Lots more to go, but nice to see the effect.
Sneak peek at the cover art...
February 26, 2012
I made a new book!
I've just announced the special pre-order price for FableCroft's new book, To Spin a Darker Stair, featuring work by the amazing Catherynne M Valente, Brisbane writer Faith Mudge, and the ever awesome Kathleen Jennings.
To Spin a Darker Stair was rather a surprise addition to FableCroft's 2012 lineup, springing as it did, unexpected, from the slushpile of a completely different project! It's a beautiful little book though, and I'm proud to be able to share it with everyone (at Easter).
February 25, 2012
Weekly is the new daily
It seems that while other content might go up here during the week, an actual life content post is a weekly event these days! Ah well, at least I'm still posting I guess 
A bit of an odd week – we had the school swimming carnival on Tuesday, which I enjoyed working at (in the computer area with nice people – it's my favourite job because of the problem solving!). Only had the half day there though, because the second half of the day was at school where I facilitated a PD on WordPress for...
February 24, 2012
New Who in Conversation: Smith and Jones (S03E01)
David is coming to New Who for the first time, having loved Classic Who as a kid. Tehani is a recent convert, and ploughed through Seasons 1 to 6 (so far) in just a few weeks after becoming addicted thanks to Matt Smith – she's rewatching to keep up with David! Tansy is the expert in the team, with a history in Doctor Who fandom that goes WAY back, and a passion for Doctor Who that inspires us all. We're going to work our way through New Who, using season openers and closers, and Hugo...
February 17, 2012
Another week flies by
This working full-time business takes a bit of getting used to! Basically I've not done much else for the past week. I read a bit, watched a bit of tv, devoured a new (to me) web comic, and tried to keep up with the washing, cleaning and getting kids to school stuff. They started swimming lessons on Monday. Bit of a shock to the system to pay $13 each per lesson after several years of VacSwim where $10 gets you two weeks (ten days) of lessons!! But good for them to keep up their swimming...
Thoughts from Outland
This is not a review of the new ABC show Outland. It's only aired a third of the episodes at my time of writing, and I'm enjoying them so far, but I'm not reviewing it here. I think it's good – if you have some similar tastes as me, you might like to try it (check out the episodes so far on iView). But this is not a review. Instead, Outland has inspired me to think a bit about fandom.
According to some people in the Australian spec fic community, I'm not a fan. I'm not quite sure what that...
February 12, 2012
It's Awards season again
The Tin Ducks (WA) and Chronos Awards (Vic) are both open for nominations. FableCroft has a few eligible works from 2011.
The Chronos short story ones are on the wonderful list over here (and instructions on how to nominate are here). My name appears there with Alex for our Vorkosigan reviews as well, which is nice
The Tin Ducks are a little trickier but here they are in screen shot.
Please particularly note that the Natcon Fifty committee put out a fantastic souvenir book for the convention l...
February 11, 2012
New Who in conversation: The Runaway Bride (S02 Christmas Special)
Original fan art by Kathleen Jennings. Thanks Kathleen! Check out Kathleen's awesome artwork at her blog, particularly her regular Dalek Game pieces! And you might like to know that Kathleen is eligible for Best Fan Artist, if you're nominating for the Hugos…
David is coming to New Who for the first time, having loved Classic Who as a kid. Tehani is a recent convert, and ploughed through Seasons 1 to 6 (so far) in just a few weeks after becoming addicted thanks to Matt Smith – she's...
February 10, 2012
Week 3 in Tasmania
When I start managing to update more than once a week, the titles of these posts might become more interesting! Another busy week at work, but starting to feel like I've got a handle on how things work. The kids are just gorgeous so far – am sharing a tutor group with another teacher, and they are all delightful (includes one of the school captains and a prefect who is a colleague's son, so even better! It's also a tiny group, which will make getting to know them easier). The staff continue t...
February 3, 2012
The week that was
Well, that was a week! First week at new (full-time) job – lots and lots of meetings, information overload, but offset by a very nice school and very pleasant staff. Looking forward to meeting the kids in the week ahead! My kids have been at vacation care (big two) and new daycare (littlest) and coping pretty well – better than I'd anticipated actually, which is great. The big ones had a day at the pool yesterday which went down well (with good weather too!).
Work was almost entirely all I...
