Rez @ Autumn Writers Exhibition

Once a year, the Written Word group on the Cookie Sim put on a celebration of writing in SL, known as the Autumn Writers Exhibition. As you would expect, Rez will be right there in the thick of it, with a stand of our own. AWE is pretty special for us, as some of our first articles were covering the goings on here last year, and we made some very lasting relationships amongst the talented writers in attendance.


The festival kicks off on October 4th, so come on down, and maybe we'll see you there!

Trinity Dechou @ The Herald

Most of us will know of The Second Life Herald and many of the readers will be fully aware of the Post 6 series of articles. Each week a new girl (or guy) is taken to secondlife places, pictures taken and bios done. For this week said gurl is Rez Magazines very own Trinity Dechou.

Image Copyright Bunny Brickworks.

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I don't mean to show off.... OK, that's a blatant lie.... but myself and Trin are the first people with official SL5B Press Passes. Shiny aren't they?

So, if you see one of us, wandering around the SL5B sims, wearing our bright yellow passes, feel free to come up and have a chat. You never know, if you're interesting enough, you might end up reading your name in your favourite SL-related Independant Magazine!

Rez attends SL5B

Well, unless you have been in a virtual coma for the past few weeks you cannot help but to have noticed the impending Second Life 5th Birthday... year on year the elite of second life gather to showcase their part in our virtual world.

Since this is the first birthday that Rez could attend we filled in the forms and awaiting anxiously on the post. It arrived the other day. Rez Magazine has a confirmed stand for the forthcoming celebrations.


This year the birthday sims all have familiar terms such as ruthed, rebake, sculpt and render, to name a few. Rez Magazine will be in attendance on the SL5B Hippo sim and holds the stage with many other publishing giants, including the likes of Metaverse Messenger, Diana Allendale and sLiterary.

Pop by to hang out, read rez, get some freebies and have a preview sneak peak at the Greene Concepts San Jose Sofas (kindly donated by the Greene Concept for us to use).

Site & Feed Updates

Over the past few days I’ve moved the 2 blogs over to our domain name. The main Rez Blog can now be found at http://rblog.rezmagazine.co.uk/ and the New at rez Blog is at http://new.rezmagazine.co.uk/ Google will redirect you automatically, just for your information.

I have also ‘burned’ our feeds using feedburner. It will provide us with some information about who subscribes to the feeds using RSS Readers. The feed addresses have changed as well but will also be accessible through the original feeds too.

There is no real reason you need to know these things… I just like to keep you updated… If you have seen the occasional glitch in the last few days.. now you know why J

Techi Trin over and out...

SL Book Fair 2008 Event Listings

As we mentioned before Rez Magazine are proud to be one of the main sponsors for the forthcoming SL Book Fair, below is a list of all events, in bold are the events on the Rez Magazine Stage. Be sure to pop along and note Voodoo & I have a discussion on Saturday at 12pm SLT.

25-27 April
Book Island and Publishing Island

EVENT AREAS:

Book Island (stage sponsored by SLGuides, Virtual Learning Centre)

Cartland Court (stage sponsored by Rez Magazine)

Beach Stage (area sponsored by Third Life Books)

Publishing Island Stage (stage sponsored by sl-newspaper.com)

SL Guides VLC

EVENT SCHEDULE:

Friday 25th

2pm Opening Ceremony (Cartland Court)

3pm Marylmagner Munz reading from The Big Secret by Mary Magner (Beach Area)

3pm Threik Wilkinson reading from The Courage of Intimacy by Keith Ainsworth (Open Books)

3pm Kabbalah Today - live Kabbalah concert and Q&A session (Publishing Island stage)

4pm tbc.

5pm Madddyyy Schnook - Building for Beginners (Slguides Virtual Learning Centre)

5pm-7pm - DJs Shannah Halberd and Rat Halberd from Simkast (Cartland Court)

7pm Poetry and prose readings from INKsters and ANON magazine (Publishing Island stage)

Saturday 26th

6am discussion: Death Penalty, Right or Wrong? Selina Greene (Beach Area)

7am tbc

8am Nebbisk Oh - 'Fictionary' game where you make up definitions to fool your opponents. (Beach Area)

9am Madddyyy Schnook - Marketing and Sales in virtual worlds (Book Island stage)

10am Babu Writer - Amazon and POD - what's going on? (Publishing Island stage)

10am Selina Greene - the RL Book publishing process - talk and Q&A (Book Island stage)

11am Cricket Gears - How Art and Music Can Change the World (Cartland Court stage)

12pm Trinity Dechou, Voodoo Buwan - Rez Magazine debate on inworld Publishing (Cartland Court stage)

1pm Noble Charron - Characterization - the Soul of the Story - Lecture and Q&A by bestselling author, Michael A Stackpole (Beach Area)

2pm Elan Neruda - Paying the Bills While Paying Your Dues: a partially practical guide to writing genre fiction for a living (Publishing Island stage)

2pm-4pm Miriam Antonelli DJ (Cartland Court)

3pm Madddyyy Schnook - Building for Beginners (SLGuides)

4pm Diana Allandale - Promoting Yourself, from and Author's POV, workshop with author Diana Hunter (Beach Area)

5pm Wilbur Rich - reading

Sunday 27th

6am discussion: What's SLove got to do with it? RL/SL relationship pleasures and pitfalls. Selina Greene (Beach Area)

7am DJ Doubledown Tandino spins his signature blend of nujazz and house in a live turntable mix (Cartland Court)

8am discussion - What makes a book a cult book, rather than just a good book? Selina Greene (Beach Area)

9am Jilly Kidd hosts readings from writers in the Written Word group (beach area)

10am Sean Voss - Author Sean Percival, The Second Life In-World Travel Guide talk, Q&A (Book Island stage)

10am Madddyyy Schbook - Building for Beginners (SLGuides)

11am Simeon Beresford - Literary quiz (Book Island stage)

12pm Poetry and prose readings from INKsters and ANON magazine (Publishing Island stage)

1pm Kitumscheid Writer - the publishing process for illustrated books, based on experiences from her book, Pirate's Alphabet (Publishing Island stage)

1pm-3pm - DJ Ravishal Bentham from Kona Radio (Cartland Court)

3pm - Diana Allandale - The Ins and Outs of Writing Erotica workshop with author, Diana Hunter (Beach Area)

4pm Arton Tripsa - The Writing Life: The Creation Of A Novel, a talk/Q&A with Jane Watson, author of the Hindustan Contessa (Book Island stage)

5pm Closing ceremony and afterparty (Cartland Court)

Rez Sponsors SL Book Fair!

The Second Life Book Fair on Book & Publishing Island is being held over the weekend of 25th to 27th April. Last year saw over 40 exhibitors with 20 events, this year has 50 exhibitors with around 50 events over the 3 days.


Rez Magazine has a Book Fair booth on Publishing Island and we are also sponsoring the stage on Cartland Square, just a stones throw away from our main booth on Book Island. The stage will hold various live music & discussion events. Pop along at various points over the weekend to see many exhibitors and events and come along to the Rez Magazine sponsored stage and join in parties & discussions.