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Author: Lauren McMenemy
You Never Forget Your First… Fantasycon
We’re entering the home straight: Fantasycon looms in the near-future! To get us ready, we asked previous…
Ask an Agent: September 2024
In this monthly column, we check in with one of our resident agents to answer those questions…
Categories: Guest post
Top Tips For Great Author Headshots
Photographer Tom Pepperdine will be at this year’s Fantasycon in Chester offering headshots to attendees. Here, he…
Representing Weird Fiction: A Q&A with the Innsmouth Literary Festival
With the second Innsmouth Literary Festival set to take place in Bedford next weekend, we chatted with…
Categories: Guest post
The Welsh Countryside and Folk Horror: A Match Made in Heaven, or At Least Some Pre-Christian Pagan Equivalent?
Ahead of the release of his second novel, Don’t Let ‘Em Take the Children, next weekend, Welsh…
Categories: Guest post
Meet Stephen McGowan
Every Friday, we meet a member of the BFS and peer deep into their soul (or, at…
Categories: Member profile
What’s The Best Thing About Being Part of the SFFH Community?
What is it that makes the speculative fiction community so beloved – and so lovable? We asked…
Meet Vicky Brewster
Every Friday, we meet a member of the BFS and peer deep into their soul (or, at…
Categories: Member profile
Telling The Right Story at the Right Time: A Surprise Hit Becomes a Series, Then an Omnibus
With the omnibus version of his critically-acclaimed hit dystopian series A Quiet Apocalypse officially out tomorrow, Dave…
Categories: Guest post
Fantasycon 2024: Interview with Guest of Honour Priya Sharma
In the lead-up to Fantasycon in Chester – happening next month! – and to celebrate the summoning…