Today is an exciting day for BristolCon guest, Stephanie Burgis. Her debut novel is now available in the shops. A Most Improper Magick is a Regency era fantasy aimed at children between the ages of 10 and 15. It stars the incorrigible and unladylike Kat Stephenson who notes:
I was twelve years of age when I [...]

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Paul Cornell’s stint on Action Comics has now started, and he has just announced a very special guest star in issue #894 (out in October, not long before BristolCon). That guest star is a young goth girl who wears a signature ankh pendant. Yes, that’s Death from Neil Gaiman’s Sandman series. It seems clear from [...]

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This year’s BristolCon has a very special guest: not a writer or artist, but a wizard of special effects. Mike Tucker is a veteran of many BBC productions, including Doctor Who and Red Dwarf. He now runs his own company, The Model Unit, based at the famous Ealing film studios. More details about Mike and [...]

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Our list of attending writers continues to swell. We are delighted to welcome Wiltshire-based writer, Sarah Singleton, who has published 6 young adult novels with Simon & Schuster. Her first adult novel, The Crow Maiden, has recently been released by Wildside Press. More information about Sarah and our many other guests is available on our [...]

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Well, Joe might not have won the David Gemmell Legend Award, but the cover of Best Served Cold won the David Gemmell Ravenheart Award for Best Fantasy Cover. Our congratulations to Didier Graffet (who drew the sword), Dave Senior (who drew the map) and Laura Brett (the Art Director at Gollancz). And of course to [...]

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Well, Joe Abercrombie’s Best Served Cold didn’t win the David Gemmell Award. Our congratulations to Graham McNeill.
However, Joe is up for yet another prize. Best Served Cold has been nominated for the Best Novel category of the British Fantasy Awards. The opposition does include Stephen King, but we are crossing our fingers that we’ll have [...]

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If you are reading this in the UK you can now see the pilot for Paul Cornell’s Pulse on the BBC web site. Warning: if you are going to watch it, don’t read the comments first, they contain spoilers.

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The BBC publicity machine is swinging into gear for Pulse with the pilot episode only a week away. As a result, Paul Cornell has been blogging for the Beeb. The Claire Foy podcast he links to also includes discussion of this weekend’s Pratchett spectacular on Sky: Going Postal.

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Paul Cornell has posted a trailer for Pulse over at his blog. There’s a neat little BBC warning on it that says: “Guidance: Contains horror.” Some of you may also find it a little spoilery, but they did leave out most of the blood.

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The next couple of weeks are going to be busy for Paul Cornell. Firstly there is the Bristol Comics Expo. As the writer taking over Superman, Paul is obviously going to be in big demand. We are therefore very lucky that he has agreed to do a signing at our table at around 17:00 on [...]

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