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BFS Blog and Reviews

News and Articles

Katie Bruce

Fantasycon is Education, Entertainment – and Trinkets from the Dealers

We’re entering the home straight: Fantasycon looms in the near-future! To get us ready, we asked

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Liam Hogan

Shrewsbury Gets Nerdy for SFF

Liam Hogan attended the first Fantasy & Sci-Fi Spotlight at Shrewsbury’s Nerdy Cafe and lived to

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Elaine Chiew

Imaginarium: Celebrating British and International ESEA Speculative Fiction

Elaine Chiew, founder of Lian Connect and Imaginarium – the debut festival, supported by the BFS,

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Shown is a graphic that has a background of blue mountains over a calm lake with a low sun shining. On the top right and left is the BFS logo, a shimmering dragon design curling around the letters ‘BFS’. At the bottom left and right is a silhouette of a person with balled up pieces of paper rising up from the head. Photos: Eleanor Pender (top left); Beth Barany (top right); Villimey Mist (bottom left); Phil Williams (bottom right).

BFS Online: Writing and Mental Health – Writer’s Block

At one time or another, almost every writer stumbles over writer’s block. Is it caused by doubt,

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Shown is a graphic that has a background of blue mountains over a calm lake with a low sun shining. On the top right and left is the BFS logo, a shimmering dragon design curling around the letters ‘BFS’. At the bottom left and right is a silhouette of a person with balled up pieces of paper rising up from the head. Photos: E.M. Faulds (top left); V. Castro (top right); Kirby Ezekiel (bottom left); Lucy A. McLaren (bottom right).

BFS Online: Writing and Mental Health – Mental Health and a Writing Career

Being a creator can be stressful, especially if it’s not your only job. How do you keep your

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Siân O'Hara

Come & Meet Your Con Family

We’re entering the home straight: Fantasycon looms in the near-future! To get us ready, we asked

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BFS Reviews

PJ AND THE PARANORMAL PURSUERS: THE PHANTOMS OF PITTENWEEM By Jacqui Dempster

The second book in a young adult series sees PJ and his friends (the titular Paranormal Pursuers)

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THE SPICE GATE by Prashanth Srivatsa

Amir was born with the spicemark on his neck, condemning him to a life as a bowler of Raluha, a

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ROADS OF DESTINY and Other Tales of Alternative Histories and Parallel Realms, ed by Alasdair Richmond

Ever since people told each other stories, there has been a fascination with imagined other worlds.

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Key Lime Sky by Al Hess

The premise of Key Lime Sky is fairly simple. One day, a UFO crashed near a small town in Wyoming.

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Guillotine by Delilah S. Dawson

Dez Lane dreams of being a fashion designer, but is finding it hard to get a foot in the door.

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Key Lime Sky by Al Hess

The premise of Key Lime Sky is fairly simple. One day, a UFO crashed near a small town in Wyoming.

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