Rebecca Laffar-Smith

Sci Fi Fantasy Author

Participates in 2 items

Escape Reality, Experience Possibility

Rebecca Laffar-Smith always yearned to explore the wonders of this world and beyond. After twelve years as a freelance copywriter and editor, she gave up writing about the non-fiction world in favour of fantastical creatures and the fanciful things she could create and immortalise in fiction. Now she writes in the moments she can steal away from homeschooling her Autistic son, raising her creative daughter, and volunteering as an events coordinator and mentor for her local writing community. She dreams of someday running a writer's retreat on the outskirts of Perth and writing her stories in a detached, hexagonal room with dozen's of bookshelves and plenty of natural light.

Sessions in which Rebecca Laffar-Smith participates

Sunday 1 April, 2018

Time Zone: (GMT+08:00) Perth

2:00 PM

Book Covers: Art or Money?

1 hour, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Meeting Room 5

Panel

Emma Hall, IngramSpark (Participant)

Rebecca Laffar-Smith, Sci Fi Fantasy Author (Participant)

Emily K Smith (Participant)

Amanda Bridgeman (Participant)

Can book covers be both effective marketing tools and art? How does an author navigate a cover art request form successfully? The panel will invest...

6:00 PM

Cross-fertilising, from genre to aesthetic

1 hour, 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River

Panel

Dr Cathy Cupitt (Moderator)

Lyss Wickramasinghe, The Never Never Book Box (Participant)

Carol Ryles (Participant)

Rebecca Laffar-Smith, Sci Fi Fantasy Author (Participant)

Ryan J Griffen, National Guest of Honour (Participant)

Cross-fertilising genres gives awesome results like the SF spy novel and the supernatural romance. The panel discusses why these combinations are s...

Sessions in which Rebecca Laffar-Smith attends

Friday 30 March, 2018

Time Zone: (GMT+08:00) Perth

10:00 AM

Believing Impossible Things

1 hour, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River

Panel

Stephen Dedman (Participant)

Chris Creagh, Retired (Participant)

Dr Andrew Williams (Participant)

Luke Chandler-Hopkins (Participant)

Humans are good at believing improbable, or even impossible, things. This panel will sort out the degrees of impossibility involved in key science ...

11:00 AM

How to be the Doctor’s Companion- Practical skills to take into space.

1 hour, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River

Panel

Mr Aaron Creaser Aaron (Participant)

Rachel Turner Rachel (Participant)

Ruth Turner (Participant)

What does it take to be the Doctor's companion? How would a person go about training for the role? What are essential skills in a companion? What s...

2:00 PM

SF movies that engage the brain

1 hour, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River

Panel

Nuke, AntipodeanSF (Participant)

Ian Nichols, Miskatonic University (Participant)

Laura Gladstone (Participant)

One of the most notable elements of written science fiction is the focus on exploring ideas in depth and speculating about the effects of technolog...

5:00 PM

How stars work, what happens over a star's lifetime, and why

1 hour, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River

Talk

Dr Andrew Williams (Participant)

All you need to know about astrophysics without the equations.Andrew Williams presents: There's an awful lot of science fiction featuri...

Sunday 1 April, 2018

Time Zone: (GMT+08:00) Perth

10:00 AM

Faery

1 hour, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Pan Pacific Perth - Meeting Room 7

Panel

Satima Flavell (Participant)

Helen Jekabsons (Helen J) (Participant)

We've been telling stories about the fey for a long time, but how have the stories changed over time? What is the fey's role in stories? What does ...

11:00 AM

The Science in The Martian movie

30 minutes, 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Pan Pacific Perth - Pilbara

Talk

1:00 PM

Lunch

1 hour, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Closed

3:00 PM

Comics -> TV/movies VS TV/movies -> comics

1 hour, 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM