Baggage launch details! And more!

Sharyn Lilley, of Eneit Press, has posted the details to the Baggage launch in Melbourne on September 2:

The most incredible and exciting news about the launch is that Borders South Wharf are hosting it!

The other piece of good fortune is that, though we had to set a date and time quite awhile ago, and we did ask for an early time hoping to avoid any real programming conflicts with Aussiecon 4, we got an email today confirming that our launch starts an hour before the opening ceremony. Phew. So people can come to Borders, at 20 Convention Centre Place (there will be cake - and authors, and lots of copies of Baggage, and cake, and Gillian the proud editor, and did I mention there will be cake? Then stroll back over to the Convention Center for the opening ceremony.

So don't forget: Borders South Wharf, 20 Convention Center Place; Thursday 2nd September; 1 - 3 pm. I'd love to see you there, even if it's just to pop in and say hi.

I'd love to see you there, too!

In other news, you may have noticed in the comments to a recent post that Aidan Doyle offered a link of fabulous libraries. However, in case you missed it, it's just too good to risk your not seeing it, so I'm posting the link here as well: http://curiousexpeditions.org/?p=78. Here's one now:



And finally, if you're writing adventure (and why wouldn't you be?), and it involves pirates (and why wouldn't it?), you might find it extremely instructive to find out strategies and tactics for dealing with real-life pirates (like, the kind who will actually kill you for real, right now, in the Gulf of Aden). I am in no way whatsoever trying to trivialize the tragedy, distress, and loss these real pirates cause (any more than the writers of detective fiction are trying to trivialize real crime, or military-fiction writers war). But if you want to make your writing rich with practical, workable detail (and, as you know, adventure fiction REQUIRES it), you could do worse than read this booklet, put out by the Maritime Security Center (Horn of Africa). (Originally found on boingboing.) Of course, you'd have to adapt the advice for whatever technologies are available in your world, but every problem this booklet is trying to answer is a problem you will have to think about for your hapless crew. Or for your pirates. Arrr.