Last weekend (May 23rd + 24th 2009), about 30 Obernetters gathered in Sydney for the Sydney Writers' Festival 2009 - to attend the Isobelle Carmody / Garth Nix panel on Sunday.
...if things look a little different than they usually do in the next couple of days.
The east coast of Australia has been experiencing a swathe of disasters this year: the devastating Victorian bushfires, NSW bushfires and Queensland floods.
A few months ago, I was emailed by a Patricia Kennon, co-editor of "INIS: The Children's Books Ireland Magazine", asking if they could use a screenshot of Obernewtyn.net in their upcoming article about the fanfiction phenomena.
