Hello! I have returned! Well, I’ve been back since the very end of November but shhh.
I did lots of things including Bizarrocon (bizarro fiction convention in case you didn’t know), the Peculiarium, the Lovecraft Bar, Voodoo and Pips donuts, Powell’s Books (the biggest used and new book shop IN THE WORLD) and the creepy clown room at the Funhouse Lounge.
I also met some really great creative people, listened to fantastic stories and was overwhelmed by the response to my own reading, from the book I can officially announce is out next year: Fortune Box, with Eraserhead Press. I took part in a panel and learned from the others, and it’s all below! Enjoy.
Bizarrocon 2017:
Portland:
Fortune Box reading:
The Weird In A Post Weird World, Author Panel:
Madeleine Swann 
That convention looks really fun! And congrats on the new book. So what is bizarro?? Kind of comedic Weird?
Thank you so much! It was a lot of fun.
Bizarro is kind of an umbrella term for modern surrealists, weird fiction, or anything else odd I suppose. Someone defined it as the literary equivalent of the midnight movie section
Oh that sounds right up my street! I’ll have to have a look at ordering some bizarro books
Yay! The most famous one is probably The Haunted Vagina
Hahaha! I’ll put it on my list
Why is there so much crazy shit in Portland? Well it looks like you two had fun 😀
We did! The crazy seems to have converged all at once there
Haha oh god there must be some sort of magnet. That’s good haha 😀