It’s Fantasycon Time! Meet Some Of Our Attending Members

Name: Rebecca Brown (RM Brown)
Dates you’re attending: 9th, 10th, 11th
What you do: Writer 
Social handles: @rmbrownauthor (IG + TikTok)
What are you most excited about at Fantasycon: Meeting other fantasy writers in the flesh and not over a screen! 
Talk to me about: Scottish folklore, your current read/project!

Name: Daniel B Camp
Dates you’re attending: 9th – 11th
What I do: Writer (pre-successful)
Social handles: dabcamp on Bluesky
What am I most excited about at Fantasycon: Meeting all of the nice people and attending all of the nice panels 
Talk to me about: The hell of the 3rd draft, your creative process, or how stand up comedians would fare in a post apocalyptic society

Name: Zoe Cunningham
Dates you’re attending: Mostly Saturday 10th (plus late 9th & early 11th)
What you do: actor & filmmaker, reader, writer-in-training
Social handles: @zoefcunningham (insta/bsky/linkedin)
What are you most excited about at Fantasycon: Banquet!!
Talk to me about: Pokémon, Star Trek, ATIC (my universe)

Name: Stephanie Ellis
Dates you’re attending: all! (but prob arriving bit late )
What you do: Author/poet; recent books A Fragile Thing, Rat-She and Harrowfield, with Mother’s Night slated soon! Reviewer: hiding at Horror Tree, so many good things sent in lately! Reader: always, known to fangirl over Grady Hendrix and Thomas Olde Heuvelt. Also editor, proofreader, formatter.
Social media handles: bsky: stephellis.bsky.social, insta: stephanieellis7963
What are you most excited about at Fantasycon: allowing myself to be absorbed into the bookish world, meeting folk in real life when it’s usually just been online, buying books, reading books …
Talk to me about: folk horror and what is/isn’t folk horror, older women in horror – both as authors and as characters.

Name: Margaret Eve
Dates you’re attending: Fri-Sun
What you do: Writer (short horror fiction with an attempt at a longer fantasy novel)
Social handles: Bluesky – @Margaret Eve.bksy.social  instagram – @margaretevewrites
What are you most excited about at Fantasycon: Nerding about books with other book nerds and having my ideas and inspirations revitalised by listening to other people’s thoughts on much loved topics
Talk to me about: Worldbuilding, magic systems, creepy myths and legends

Name: Gwen Frazer
Dates you’re attending: Friday to Sunday 
What you do: fan, reader, con goer
Social handles: frazerdennison on Instagram
What are you most excited about at Fantasycon: excited to be visiting Glasgow, catching up with friends, meeting new people, being a moderator on panels, attending panels, talking all things scifi, fantasy & horror
Talk to me about: conventions, toastmasters, geocaching, all things scifi, fantasy & horror, books

Name: Jan Foster
Dates you’re attending: Fri-Sunday
What you do: Author & reader
Social media handles: @jan.foster.author IG FB TT
What are you most excited about at Fantasycon: meeting new friends and old, and the legendary karaoke. You never know who you’re going to end up having the most amazing or inspirational chat with!
Talk to me about: Weird and useless superpowers you’d bestow on people, and anything historical, especially if it involves witches

Name: Lilly Grant
Dates you’re attending: Friday Morning – Saturday Evening 
What you do: Big reader, budding SFFH writer
Social handles: lillyg4224 (IG)
What are you most excited about at Fantasycon: Meeting new people!
Talk to me about: Ergodic Literature, Cosmic/lovecraftian horror, TTRPGS, Indie gaming (Especially anything with a good story)

Name: Joanne Hall (Jo)
Dates you’re attending: Thurs-Sunday
What you do: Writer, editor, anthologist, submissions wrangler
Social media handles: hierath77.bsky.social (I think!)
What are you most excited about at Fantasycon: Seeing everyone! And the panels!
Talk to me about: Dogs, gardening, 80s films

Name: Geoff Holder
Dates you’re attending: Fri-Sun
What you do: Screenwriter, author of non-fiction books, short stories and novels (and still trying to get the last mentioned published)
Social handles: I contend social media is a limb of Beelzebub, but there is www.geoffholder.com and linkedin.com/in/geoff-dupuy-holder=98abb0141
What are you most excited about at Fantasycon: The Wizards Tower launch of They Are Still Here, lending my dulcet tones to a horror reading group, and moderating a panel for the first time. 
Talk to me about: history, archaeology, Forteana, the occult, strange music, the Loch Ness Monster and anything you know more about than I do. 

Name: David Lascelles but I publish as D.A Lascelles
Dates you’re attending: All weekend!!!!
What you do: I dabble. I am equally bad at writing, art and being a fan. But if you like photography of cosplayers then you might like my art. I am also trying really hard to be terrible as an anthology editor.
Social media handles: @fantasyphotographydal @areteus
What are you most excited about at Fantasycon: Getting back to Glasgow after Worldcon and being on panels in the Crowne Plaza again
Talk to me about: Anything geeky really. These events are very often about sitting in a room and listening to people on panels talking about their hyperfocus then listening to others in the bar talking about their hyperfoci… But I am terrible at remembering names and faces…

Name: Lucy A. McLaren
Dates you’re attending: Friday to Sunday 
What you do: Writer and reader
Social handles: IG & Threads lucy_a_mclaren
What are you most excited about at Fantasycon: Meeting new people and partaking in panels
Talk to me about: gothic fantasy and vibes, mental health in stories, feminism, nerdy tattoos, the Ocarina of Time remake. 👀

Name: Fiona Moore
Dates you’re attending: Fri-Mon
What you do: I’m a writer, academic and artist.
Social handles: @ drfionamoore on all platforms (just delete the space)
What are you most excited about at Fantasycon: I’ll be launching my new book, Management Lessons from The Lord of the Rings, on Saturday evening! Come along for a con discount, reading, wine and snacks.
Talk to me about: Television and movies, especially from the 1970s. Cooking. Tolkien. Cats.

Name: Laurence Nix
Dates you’re attending: all!
What you do: aspiring author, deep into querying literary agents and indie presses 
Social handles: @ljrnix on bluesky and instagram
What are you most excited about at Fantasycon: how fun it is to see you all, especially now that I know a few of you from the Discord and the last two Fantasycons! oh, and also learning things at various panels and workshops. Oh, and also also my first time being on a panel.
Talk to me about: anything writing related, bouldering, fun books you’ve read recently, your top 5 birds

Name: Suzanne Owen
Dates you’re attending: Sunday only
What you do: write fantasy and I’m also a published academic
Social handles: @suzanneowenphd.bsky.social; Instagram: suzanneowenphd 
What are you most excited about at Fantasycon: meeting BFS members!
Talk to me about: nature (trees, animals, birds, anything), landscapes, writing and worldbuilding

Name: Steven Patchett
Dates attending: Friday afternoon to Sunday Afternoon
What I do: Writer/Reader/Reviewer
Social Handles: Bluesky: @StevenPatchett.bsky.social; Twitter: Stevenpatchett
Most excited about at Fantasycon: It’s my first one, so I’m excited about everything!
Talk to me About: Folk Horror, Debut novels, TTRPG, er… engineering? 

Name: Kit Whitfield
Dates you’re attending: Friday to Sunday
What you do: Writer. Most recent books out: the Gyrford stories, tales of cold iron and fey havoc. Out next year: The Snakestone Girls, a historical fantasy featuring. an accidental witch-paleontologist, a small ferret-trainer with raging ADHD, found famly and a beloved pet that does NOT die. I also write the What’s On Shudder? column for Ginger Nuts of Horror, which allows me to post enormously long essays of film crit.
Social media handles: @kitwhitfield.bsky.social, @kit_whitfield_books on Insta
What are you most excited about at Fantasycon: I love meeting people in the scene! Come up and say hi to me and let’s talk about things we enjoy.
Talk to me about: Folklore, history (I’m mostly up on Early Modern but hit me with what you’ve got), animal facts, etymology and language geekery, horror movies.