We R Igors - 2015 Discworld Calendar

Good news: The new Discworld Calendars, from Gollancz will be available from The Discworld Emporium in August of this year.  

The Discworld Emporium writes:

As any Igor will tell you, ‘What goeth around, cometh around’. This excursion into Pratchett’s world of the Igors has taught us more about anatomy, and indeed ‘re-cycling’, than one could possibly have wished to know. Regardless, we’re delighted to share it with you in this little tome. Hopefully it will have you in thtitcheth!

The Gollancz announcement states that 

The Discworld Diary 2015 is the most lavishly illustrated Discworld diary Gollancz has ever produced – full-colour throughout for the first time – and is published in hardback on the 21 August 2014.

Time to do some Hogswatch shopping ....

Enjoy,

D. 

Happy Hogswatch

Susan: I don't remember them asking for anything that makes a noise.
Death: Oh, there has to be something in the stocking that makes a noise. Otherwise, what is 4:30AM for? 

Happy Hogswatch to all here

Dj

Art: Hogswatch image by Paul Kidby

Links: You can follow the celebrations in Wincanton hosted by the Discworld Emporium at the Hogswatch Facebook page.   

I received a hogswatch stocking as a surprise gift last week. It now hangs in a place of pride in my office. (Let 'em wonder) - Thanks, Hon!

PJSM Prints has lovely Hogswatch cards by Paul Kidby. 

The Discworld Emporium writes:

This year the Discworld Emporium celebrates it’s tenth year, and with that in mind it’s carnival/mardis gras time! So rummage in the dressing up box and go Gogol with a Genuan get up, or don your most mysterious mask for an elegant Brindisian flavour. Think sequins, feathers, pox doctors and voodoo!

Those of a theatrical persuasion can take to the stage for the traditional maskerade, with appropriate party pieces to entertain, mesmerize, bewitch or confound. All manner of fevered lunacy accepted.

The traditional Sausage Supper will be served from the cauldrons of various hostelries around town on Saturday evening - NOW FULLY SUBSCRIBED SUBJECT TO CANCELLATIONS

There’ll be talks, entertainments, cake, games room, dealers room and of course the Grand Charity auction in aid of Alzheimer’s research on Sunday. The Emporium will be open all weekend for moral support and retail therapy.

Here is the full Program. 

Have fun, folks! I wish I could be there with you.

Sleeping (?) Arrangments: The NADWCon hotels

Mrs. Palm would like to point out that sleeping arrangements organized on anything less than a purely business basis are none of her concern but she thought you all should know that the convention hotel's regular rooms are Sold Out.  Not to worry: We have opened up rooms at another local hotel due to popular demand (a circumstance the Seamstress Guild is well acquainted with).  More information on the NADWCon hotel arrangements can be found below and at the official website: www.nadwcon.org.

Looking for a roommate to share expenses? There's a page for that.

NADWCon 2011 Hotel(s) 

Our selection of regular rooms at the Concourse have all been booked!
Governor's Club rooms are still available at our special rate, but regular rooms at The Concourse
are now at their usual rate if you want to stay in the same hotel as the NADWCon 2011 events.
To reserve your hotel room(s) at the Concourse online please go to:
Madison Concourse Hotel
1 West Dayton Street
Madison, Wisconsin 53703
1-800-356-8293
info@concoursehotel.com

However, we have booked a new block of rooms at neighboring hotel for a special rate!
The Double Tree by Hilton
525 W. Johnson St
Madison, Wisconsin 53703
608-251-5511 - Be sure to mention N.A.D.

Any questions regarding the hotel can be sent to
hotel@nadwcon.org

Rest well, my friends. Mrs Palm thinks you will be needing all the sleep you can get.

On another, but not entirely unrelated note, Happy May Day to all here.  Discworld May Day celebrations in Wincanton, site of the famous Discworld Emporium, are going on as we speak.

Friends, o friends, the Morris cometh this way,
On the 1st and 2nd of May,
So bring bell and whistle, cider and stick,
Drink and dance and make yourselves sick.
For to hew on the pavement, to hew on the lawn,
To thrash with the sticks from midnight til dawn,
Is to see the old ways walk again in the land,
Is to take once again, old Adam in hand.’
(B. Pearson)

dj