Last weekend saw us heading for the Discworld Convention 2008, which was located in Birmingham's NEC complex. Doing two conventions back-to-back isn't what we'd ideally do, but we'd been talked into doing the Discworld Con by two Terry Pratchett fans (Chris and Chris) we met at last Easter's Orbital convention, and I'm pleased to say that it was everything they said it would be.

We had a really good time, met some very nice people (including one Terence David John Pratchett, OBE), and - aided by some pretty heavy recommending by natural20 and Chris and Chris - managed to sell 70 copies of Game Night. Given that this represents getting on for 10% of the 750 or so people attending, we were pretty pleased with this.

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