World's End Party at Talliston and looking back at 2012

Well, the world didn’t end after all the hype and I for one am pretty glad as it meant I got to go to one of the most incredible parties ever last night.

John Trevillian, science fiction author extraordinaire and general all round good bloke hosted an End of the World party at his incredible house ‘Talliston’ in the fairly normal suburb of Great Dunmow in Essex. An ex-council house that has been re-designed and re-created over the past 23 years into an incredibly atmospheric series of thirteen supernatural rooms all with an incredible level of detail, there surely could not have been a better place to spend your last hours.

You can see all about the party and the house on Facebook by looking up ‘Friends of Talliston.’ I personally got to meet so many amazing people - other writers like me, people in the arts, people who are great ‘steampunkers’ and people who simply wanted to come and see the incredible place that is Talliston. I made a few more friends, talked to people about my books, heard about their books and just generally got to know people I would normally never have met.

Becoming a published writer has definitely changed my life. 2012 has been an awesome voyage of self discovery, of finding my creativity, of making incredible friends and colleagues, and participating in things I would never have done before. The learning curve has been hard but tremendously rewarding and I have grown as a person in ways I would never have envisaged.

So I can only hope that 2013 brings me the same sense of satisfaction and achievement that 2012 did.  

To everyone out there - Merry Christmas all, and may 2013 may a great year for you all.