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BFS Blog and Reviews

News and Articles

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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 Online: Writing and Mental Health – Readings

We have six readings from a range of authors – fantasy, science fiction and horror – to help

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E A Underwood

Myth as Catalyst in the Modern Fantastic

With her new book Isles of the Earthbound taking inspiration from British and Irish myth, EA

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Rachel Green

Never Done A Con? Time To Take The Plunge!

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

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BFS Reviews

SCHRADER’S CHORD By Scott Leeds

Charlie Remick is known by his colleagues as ‘the man with the golden ear’. An A&R scout

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Navola by Paolo Bacigalupi

While his friends play, Davico di Regulai works in the scrittorium, copying his

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Cults of RuneQuest: The Lunar Way By Chaosium

Glorantha is the infamous setting for the long-lasting role-playing game RuneQuest, created by

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My Throat An Open Grave by Tori Bovalino

It is the end of the school day. Leah Scarlett Jones has chores to take care of and a baby brother

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NIGHT ANGEL NEMESIS by Brent Weeks

Time has passed since the Battle of Black Barrow. Kylar Stern finds himself back on his home turf,

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Pendragon: The Grey Knight By Chaosium

A mysterious woman arrives at a tournament and both publicly challenges and then shames King

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