#lfcc15

Some of my favourite pics I took of MJF and the BTTF crew at this weekend's London Comic Con. Such an honour to be in Mr. Fox's presence. I'd dreamed of this.

What do I love most about YALC? Probably the people in costume, especially those who have wandered in from the London Film and Comic Con proper and want to know what we’re up to. (”What is a YALC?” one curious LFCC-er asked me as I stood signing at the Hot Key Books stall, as if a ‘YALC’ might be a new human-monster creation worthy of its own standalone genre). But what I especially love is seeing people in elaborate costumes doing mundane things. Wonder Woman eating a packet sandwich, a Transformer have a fiddle with the uncomfortable waistband of his pants, The Joker in full psych-ward get-up settling his bill in Pizza Express. Superheroes are normal people just like us most of the time. And - bear with me -  maybe this is a lovely metaphor for YALC. In books we run and fly in ways we can’t in real life, we love and lose, conquer and save. Then we all come together at Olympia to celebrate our super skills as both readers and writers with other normal/fantastic people just like us. 

I'm just really too excited to be meeting Michael Gambon (Dumbledore) and Richard Dean Anderson (Stargate SG1) tomorrow, that I physically cannot sleep and I have to be up in 5 hours! Is anyone from Stratford, London going?!

I’m also dead certain I’ve forgotten to pack something. But what???