Category World Fantasy Convention 2013
RIP Tanith Lee – a true genius of #fantasy and #horror #writing
The sad news has just filtered out of the death (on Sunday, May 24th, 2015) of Tanith Lee, prolific author of fantasy and horror. She was the first woman to win the British Fantasy Award (1980) and was recognized just a couple of years ago at the World Fantasy Convention with a Lifetime Achievement Award […]
World Fantasy Convention – How to Write That Difficult Second Book – or Why Indie Publishing May Be Right For Me!
So you’ve written that first book, done the impossible and won a publishing contract. Now you have to write the next. Simple. Or is it? This is my final panel report from World Fantasy Con 2013 – and a totally appropriate one for me, as I’m also in the throes of writing the sequel to […]
World Fantasy Convention – TOR signs a deal with NASA
WORLD FANTASY CONVENTION – PART 3 At the panel entitled: THE NEXT BIG THING, the brief for the publishers involved was to try to predict the upcoming trends in genre fiction. Whilst that brief was probably more comprehensively covered in another panel (What do publishers NOT want to see), this one focussed more on the […]
World Fantasy Con – Neil Gaiman talks about his first book – on Duran Duran!
As promised, here’s the video clip of Neil Gaiman at the World Fantasy Convention 2013 in Brighton (yay!) UK, talking with Jo Fletcher (Jo Fletcher Books) about his first published book – about Duran Duran (the pop group, not the character in Barbarella). Please excuse the shakiness – hand holding a camera is not the […]
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