I’m really excited. I have to fly through London on the way to China for our half marathon. When I’m on the way back I get to speak at Transmedia London 5 on 29 May, 2012 at BAFTA.
I’ll be talking about my web series Raptured, what I learned from making the first series and what I’m going to do with the second series (eek!). I really want to put more of a transmedia element to it to tell the story of the new Raptured world. Anyone interested in helping, do let me know. (No seriously. I mean it. Email me.)
The event is organized by Adrian Hon and Rachel Clarke in conjunction with BAFTA and Women in Film and TV. Adrian is the co-founder and CEO at the award-winning Six to Start where he created Perplex City, Smokescreen, and We Tell Stories while Rachel Clarke is a social media and digital comms strategist at Momentum Worldwide.
Also speaking on the night is Hilary Perkins, Multiplatform Commissioning Editor for Drama and Film at Channel 4, whose work includes the BAFTA-nominated Misfits and www.dreamsofyourlife.com, and Louise Downe, a service designer & thinker who is a senior consultant at Seren Partners.
Yep. She musta just seen a celeb. Photo by K Kendall
Yesterday I saw my first celebrity in New York. Felicia Day (creator of the Guild and one of the stars of Eureka) came in looking for a seat at one of my favorite coffee places, Think Coffee, near Union Square.
I’m not one for going up to people I’ve seen on TV. Unless they are at a book signing or at an event where they are being carted out for publicity purposes, I try not to bother them. I guess if we were standing in a queue together, I may say “I really liked you in X. Good work.” But that’s about it. Read more…
Ok. I’m not curing cancer myself. I’m a writer not a scientist. But I am running for Cancer Research.
Yesterday I ran 7 miles, my longest race ever, and I’m back out there again tomorrow to take Prospect Park by storm….at 13 miles an hour.
My friend Marianne and I came up with the idea a year ago to run all the races up to a marathon. Not only would we run 5K, 10K, a half marathon and a marathon but we’d do it in four continents as well. We called it Couch to 42K (or #c242k on Twitter) as we non-runners were going to get off the couch and run a marathon!
So far we’ve run in London and Morocco and in less than a month, we’ll be winging our way to China to run a half marathon on the Great Wall of China. Read more…
Though this isn’t a shock to most people (except me it seems), moving is STRESSFUL. As I take everything in stride, I thought a move across an entire ocean would be a walk in the park. Not only a move mind you, but a new job, waiting for a visa, a feature film to entirely rewrite and a half marathon to train for. Yikes. Stress city.
Somehow, I thought I was hiding it well. I was totally fine. But how could all of those things not do something to you. It took going back to London a couple weeks ago to realize I wasn’t happy these past three months. It wasn’t the job – everyone is great. It wasn’t always the script (though there were a number of weeks that I thought I was a horrible writer and I’d never be able to write again).
I missed my friends. I missed understanding social norms. Sometimes I stayed out way longer with people I didn’t want to be with just cause I wanted to go out. On top of that, I ate and drank for England and stopped training altogether. It made me feel fuller, even if I was eating my way to a heart attack. Read more…
Today, at the first Facebook Marketing Talks Live event, Facebook introduced new products and showed case studies from businesses who are finding success through marketing on Facebook.
Facebook’s Product Designer, Blaise DiPersia, and Product Manager, Jeff Kanter, spoke about the philosophy behind the new design of Facebook pages and how you can use your page to the fullest. Read more…
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