What did Heide and Iain do at Worldcon, held this year in Dublin? Here’s our day by day impressions, with some photos: Wednesday: Arrival! Heide For some reason there are two planes (different airlines) that go from Birmingham to Dublin…
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Baby’s Fantasycon 2018
Baby got back from Fantasycon in Chester, very happy to have mingled with old friends and new. Here is Baby’s account, as written up by Heide. Friday Baby and I arrived in Chester just after 3pm on Friday afternoon. Friday…
Posted in 2018, Events, Genre Tagged with: Adam Millard, Anna Smith Spark, Chester, Duncan P Bradshaw, Fantasycon, G V Anderson, Good Omens, googly eyes, Heide Goody, Iain Grant, Jen Williams, Jim McLeod, Joanne Harris, John Niven, Justin Lee Anderson, Marion Pitman, Naomi Foyle, Peter Haynes, Peter Rabbit, Rachel McLean, Richard Webb, Rio Youers, Ritchie Valentine Smith, Rosanne Rabinowitz, Steve McHugh, Steve Poore, Tasha Suri, Terry Grimwood
Writing conventions to get excited about
What’s the collective noun for a whole load of writers? It’s a convention – yay! The fun times during the year when lots of genre writers get together to exchange best practice and sing bad karaoke. It has dawned on…
Posted in 2018, Events Tagged with: 20Booksto50K, Collectormania, conferences, conventions, Fantasycon, Sledge-Lit, Stokercon, Theakstons Crime Festival, Worldcon
The Virtual Reality Book Trailer – Simon Fairbanks gives it a test drive…
We met up with indie author, Simon Fairbanks, at the Edge-Lit genre fiction event in Derby last weekend and we showed him our new Virtual Reality Book Trailer. He was so impressed, we asked him to do a guest blog…
Posted in 2018, Books, Events Tagged with: book trailer, Edge-Lit, Heide Goody, Iain Grant, snowflake, virtual reality
2017-2018 – What did we do? Where are we going?
What did we do in 2017… We started 2017 hotly promoting our latest Clovenhoof novella, Clovenhoof and the Trump of Doom. This was a story, written in the days after Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election. We had…
5 things I took away from Fantasycon 2017
Just back from Fantasycon 2017 in Peterborough. But what have I taken away with me, apart from too many books and a mild hangover? I took away five things. #1 – You always learn something new at Fantasycon On the…
Fantasycon 2017 – Heide and Iain’s appearances
Fantasycon Fantasycon is in Peterborough this year, from 29th September to 1st October. If you’re thinking of coming along, it would be great to see you. It’s a friendly convention, and in spite of the name, you’ll find writers and…
Adrian Mole’s 50th Birthday Celebrations
Winning a commission to write a new Adrian Mole story We’ve blogged before about visiting the Sue Townsend archive at the University of Leicester. When we saw the news that there were to be commissions for new Adrian Mole stories…
Posted in 2017, Events Tagged with: Adrian Mole, Bali Rai, Bridget Blair, Carole Hayman, Caroline Holden Hotopf, Corinne Fowler, EMI, Frances Quinn, Geoffrey Strachan, Janette Legge, Leicester University, Maria Taylor, Marilyn Ricci, Penguin, Simon Dixon, Simon Schatzberger, Sue Townsend
How a writing workshop led to comedy editing gold
Halloween Writing Workshop I went to a writing workshop on Halloween. It was my birthday so I decided it would be a fun way to pass the day. It was a flash fiction workshop at the University of Leicester, held…
Posted in 2016, Events, How-to's Tagged with: comedy, editing, Growing Pains of Adrian Mole, Halloween, Keith Lindsay, Selina Lock, Simon Dixon, Special collections, Sue Townsend, University of Leicester
