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Lauren McMenemy & The BFS Discord Community

Our Community’s Fave Uses of Folklore and Ritual in SFFH Properties

It’s the solstice, either the longest or shortest day of the year depending on your hemisphere.

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Meet Steve Turnbull

Every Friday, we meet a member of the BFS and peer deep into their soul (or, at least, a form they

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Ask an Expert: June 2025

In this monthly column, we pose your questions to an expert in a specific field of speculative

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P.S.C. Willis

On Being Chaotic More Effectively

Tried all the Absolutely 100% Guaranteed To Work writing advice, and still struggling to make it

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Heide Goody & Iain Grant

Adapting A Book Into A Zero-Budget Film

Danny Boyle’s not the only one with a zombie film about to hit screens—Heide Goody and Iain Grant

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Meet C.C. Adams

Every Friday, we meet a member of the BFS and peer deep into their soul (or, at least, a form they

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BFS Reviews

The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan

With the TV series of the Wheel of Time completing its third season, I thought now would be a good

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Upon a Starlit Tide by Kell Woods

Luce Léon is the daughter of an eighteenth-century Breton ship-owner who one day rescues a

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A Harvest of Hearts by Andrea Eames

A Harvest of Hearts is set in a fantastical kingdom where magic is fuelled by people’s

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Six Wild Crowns by Holly Race

Six Wild Crowns transposes infamous Tudor king Henry VIII and his six wives into a fantasy world

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Marginal by Tom Carlisle

In many ways, it’s hard to imagine a world which hadn’t experienced John W.

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The Last Song of Penelope By Claire North

This is the last book in North’s ‘Songs of Penelope’ series, telling the

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