Flashback

Jul 14, 2010 Uncategorized Leave a comment
Posted by Mary Borsellino

Since things are a little quiet here right now — book 4 is coming out in September, and the hard copy of the first three books is coming out in October, and I’m hard at work finishing book 5 — and because I came across a copy of this letter today in my hard-copy files, I figure I’d share.

This is the original submission letter I wrote to Drollerie Press about the books — or, at that stage, book. It’s a glimpse into what’s changed, what hasn’t, and what my original thoughts were about the project.

from: Mary Borsellino <mizmary@gmail.com>
to: submissions@drolleriepress.com
date: Tue, Jan 8, 2008 at 8:25 PM
subject: Novella submission - The Wolf House

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Sydney Supanova roundup

Jun 20, 2010 Uncategorized Leave a comment
Posted by Mary Borsellino

Hullo chums! I am returned from Sydney Supanova. It was lovely to meet some of you excellent reader-y people. I sold books to Old Gregg from The Mighty Boosh and the Corinthian from the Sandman comics and to lovely ordinary people and lovely dressed-up people and it was all NEAT.

Me with my 'Supa-Star' guest pass.

I look totally bemused in this photo because it is very strange to me that I continue to have people act like I’m some kind of legitimate creator or something, rather than a weird lady who makes up stories in her brain.

Saturday breakfast.

I had a bottle of True Blood (or TruBlood, or whatever way it’s spelled by people who are precise about these things) for breakfast on Saturday. It’s actually just slightly tart Fanta with a lot of caffeine in it. No, really.

Drawing by Audrey in progress.

Audrey Fox was selling A4-sized commissions for $10 at our table. We hit a lull during the morning, where she didn’t have a customer, so I commissioned her to draw me Jay and Blake.

Jay and Blake by Audrey.

This is the picture Audrey drew f0r me.

Setting up on Sunday morning.

This is a picture Audrey took on Sunday morning, as myself (in black) and Erinna (in red) set up the table for the second day of the convention.

Mary and Eliza Dushku.

I got to meet Eliza Dushku! Woo! And I didn’t start quoting bits from Bring It On or tell her that Faith has been my role model since I was seventeen. So I count that as a win.

GRETCHEN COSPLAY YAY

I saved the best picture for last. This is theonlytwin, dressed up as Gretchen. LOOK AT HER. How excellent is she, seriously? I am so delighted. Cosplay makes my whole life sing.

So that was my weekend, and a jolly lovely time it was too. To those of you who bought books, I hope you enjoy reading them as much as I enjoyed writing them. Actually, I hope you enjoy them even more than that, because sometimes writing isn’t nearly as much fun as I hope you have reading.

Clearly I should stop typing now and go to bed. Back to the day job tomorrow. It will be so sad to return to a world where nobody is playing dress up in public.

Supanova posters

Jun 15, 2010 Uncategorized Leave a comment
Posted by Mary Borsellino

If you’re coming to the Supanova convention in Sydney this weekend, you’ll be able to pick up the first three Wolf House novels (in both digital format on very pretty USB data sticks and a very, very small promotional run of paperbacks which I’m selling at-cost, because I’m just marvelously good to you like that) and also the following three posters in A3 and A4, with art by Audrey Fox and text by me.

If you can’t get to Supanova, here are the posters for download. The files are over a megabyte each, but they’re terribly nice to look at.

Supanova Sydney appearance

Jun 6, 2010 Uncategorized Leave a comment
Posted by Mary Borsellino

If you’re going to the Supanova Pop Culture Expo in Sydney on the 18th-20th of June, come hunt me down at my table, as I’m one of the guests!

It’s a totally amazing line-up — I’m especially excited for Eliza Dushku and Allan Hyde myself, as Faith is one of my favourite vampire hunters in the history of ever, and Godric is exactly the kind of vampire I find fascinating. Hooray!

Supanova pictures

May 23, 2010 Uncategorized Leave a comment
Posted by Mary Borsellino

So I don’t keep putting it off, here is at least a START to putting some of the Supanova cosplay pictures up here. There are lots and lots more to come, but procrastination just makes things more difficult, so let’s at least see the delightful fan-people in their lovely costumes, who pretty much BLEW MY MIND, LOOK HOW AMAZING THEY ALL ARE.

(Since there are all kind of different naming preferences for the people involved, I’ve just called everyone by their Livejournal username here for consistency.)