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Meet John Houlihan

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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Sarah Elliott

You Never Forget Your First… Fantasycon 

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

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Laura Bennett

Ask an Agent: September 2024

In this monthly column, we check in with one of our resident agents to answer those questions

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Tom Pepperdine

Top Tips For Great Author Headshots

Photographer Tom Pepperdine will be at this year’s Fantasycon in Chester offering headshots to

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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

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A Thank You to Fantasycon Contributors

A big thank you to all those who’ve contributed to the Fantasycon book bags and raffle. We’re so

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BFS Reviews

Cuckoo by Gretchen Felker-Martin

1995: Camp Resolution. Seven queer children are snatched from their lives and deposited at a

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The Singularity by Dino Buzzati, translated by Anne Milano Appel

Professor Ermanno Ismani is offered a two-year contract with the Ministry of Defense. What is the

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Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Robot stories are one of the pillars of science fiction, and with the recent developments in

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A Botanical Daughter by Noah Medlock

A Botanical Daughter takes cues from classic botanic horror stories such asThe Flowering of the

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Spitting Gold by Carmella Lowkis

Paris in the 1860’s is the setting for Spitting Gold, a story of two sisters, Sylvie and

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THE DRAGONS OF DEEPWOOD FEN by Bradley P. Beaulieu

All indications were that a sinkhole would soon appear, and Master Korvus, the alchymist, was

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