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Andrew Knighton

Writing From Arthurian Legends

Andrew Knighton takes his mind back to Fantasycon 2024, consults his notes, and brings us this

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The BFS Book Club is Reading: The Outcast Mage

Yet another perk of joining the BFS: get to know some of the best new speculative fiction reads,

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Meet Luna Profir

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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Helen Rose Thwaite

What the Heck is SFF Romance?!

Ahead of the international day of commercial lurve, we asked our resident mistress of paranormal

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Tiffani Angus

Subgenre deep dive: Psychological Horror

In this latest edition of her regular column, Tiffani Angus—co-author of Spec Fic for

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Sarah Elliott

Mission Accepted: Five Essentials For Your Self-Publishing Journey

Querying and trad-pub journeys aren’t for everyone, especially in genre fiction. Sarah Elliott is

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Tariq and the Drowning City by Sarwat Chadda

Absolutely cracking tale. Squarely aimed at pre-teens, this is enjoyable for all ages, especially

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THE WEAVERS OF ALAMAXA by Hadeer Elsbai

Giorgina Shukry is now a fugitive wanted for the use of magic and, as of two days ago, a prison

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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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