Empresses and Queers... from the Archive

Just dipping into my first Dr Who novel, 'The Scarlet Empress' from 1998, it still pleases me no end how peculiar and wonderfully fairytale-ish it all was.




I've been digging things out from my files, sorting through stuff...




Treasure from the archive. Back in 2001 I was guest of honour with Stella Duffy at the Proudwords Festival in Newcastle, which was organised by Julia Darling. I don't get asked to do *half enough* things as lovely as this...! It was a really fantastic do. Happy times.

And meanwhile in the present, I'm so excited about Christmas that I've even made posters...