I don’t have many pictures for this, largely because I was too busy to take any! Quite a lot of the photos were by Nerwen.
On Saturday was the kick-off party for the Singapore chapter of Nanowrimo, of which I’m proud to be co-Municipal Liaison for. It was also the launch of Happiness at the End of the World, a collection of short stories revolving around the title theme. You can buy Happiness from our publisher, Two Trees!
Things started off really well with a gigantic cake box being delivered to my home. I was a little late because traffic was bad, but by the time I arrived at Earshot cafe things were already buzzing.
There’s quite a lot of thanks to go around, so I’ll try to fit everyone into my thirty-second speech :P
Thanks to: Seriously Sarah, Joelyn Alexandra, Nerwen, NotKieran (and family!), our long-suffering editor, publisher, typesetter and writer extraordinaire Rozen, Ziyang, Kiaace, Wena Poon, The Arts House, the National Arts Council, Singapore Writers Fest volunteers and staff, Singapore Wrimos, Hafiz aka ‘Zebra Preen’, HRH The Drama Queen Afiq, the boys who proved the cake was not a lie by finishing it (man slices!) and everybody else who came down to Earshot! :D
There were competitions and prizes given out, but everything went so fast and so crazy that I completely lost track. I had a heck of a time. I was so pleased with all our Undercover outfits – what with it being Halloween and all.
I’ll let the pictures speak for themselves.
Rozen undercover as a tourist, winner of the Best Undercover competition
Joelyn Alexandra as Lady Una
NotKieran, in characteristic black
Nerwen as a vampire, Sarah as someone with pink hair, horns and an eyepatch
Afiq aka Baghead and Hafiz aka "I'm Ris Low on the inside" (he was wearing zebra prints underneath)
A Wrimo who came underneath book covers!
Wrimos signing in
Earshot got crazy crowded as I took this - more than half were Wrimos!
Ziyang reading his story from Happiness
Aaand we actually finished our cake this year!