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BFS Open Night - Manchester - Sunday 5th December

I have just learned that BFS chairman, David Gowe, has managed to book a venue for a BFS Open Night in Manchester on Sunday the 5th December at The Lass O'Gowrie Pub.

It's address is 36 Charles Street, Manchester, M1 7DB.

It starts at 6.00 p.m. onwards.

Although Sunday night is not ideal, it's better than nothing. I'll be driving there, so it's an alcohol free night for me.

For ongoing information about this event check out this link to the BFS site.

The Seventh Black Book of Horror

There's an interesting discussion of the Seventh volume here on the Vault of Evil, including some reviews of the stories inside it.

Lucilla

You know some stories end so easily. It's there. It's finished. And not a word needs altering.

Others...

I'm afraid Lucilla is one of those. Spent a lot of today working and reworking the final pages.

I think I need to put it to one side for a while. Look at it in a few months time, refreshed.

Lucilla

Having decided that this story wasn't right to be much longer than a novella, I finally finished the first draft tonight, drawing it to a conclusion at 25,700 words.

The final part will need some revision before it will be finally finished, and perhaps putting to one side for several months. Other than that, I am happy with it.

Russian Website: Лаборатория Фантастики

It looks as if my piece about The Mammoth Book of Zombies being published in Russia has been picked up on a Russian website, Лаборатория Фантастики (Laboratory of the Fantastic is my best translation), which is fantastic in itself.

The Mammoth Books of Zombies/The Monster Book of Zombies

Further to my comments about the Russian version of this anthology yesterday, which has been republished in various places under different titles, I have been informed by Stefan Dziemianowicz on the All Hallows message board that The Monster Book of Zombies, published last year in the States by Metro Books, is to be republished there again next summer.

This anthology just seems to go on and on. Amazing.

Chris Barker

In earlier threads I have written about Chris Barker's failings on the internet, with references to internet rage.

FantasyCon 2010, though, was the first time I actually had the opportunity to meet him, when I spotted him, stood at one end of the hotel bar, chatting with Reggie Oliver. Not to my surprise at all, when I went up to him and introduced myself, I found him a really nice bloke. I had already noticed his blogsite, horrorwatch, had closed down. I am glad it has. He does not handle int...

Out of Corruption published in Russia

One of the biggest surprises I got over the weekend at FantasyCon was Steve Jones coming over to me with a hardbound book called Zombi, (ЗОМБИ) which is a Russian version of The Mammoth Book of Zombies, which contains my novella Out of Corruption (Из Тлена).

This is a beautiful book, with gilt patterning on the cover and spine, and is without a doubt the most impressive version of that collection yet.

One of the best things about Steve is the fact that he does his very best to make sure that ev...

FantasyCon 2010

We have only just arrived home a couple of hours ago from FantasyCon 2010, so I'm not really up to sayiong too much about it yet, except that this was one of the best, most interesting and well-organised conventions I have ever been too. It was also great to meet so many interestsing and nice people.

Anyway, as an appetiser here are a few photos we took there:

Joel Lane & Allyson Bird and some of the authors of the anthology Never Again at its signing
Lisa Tuttle, Garry Kilworth and Guy Adams

Lis...

BFS Publications: advertising rates

The BFS produces three publications:

Prism, the quarterly newsletter, which has reviews, articles and interviews.

Dark Horizons, a half-yearly magazine specialising in fiction, poetry, articles and interviews.

New Horizons, a half-yearly magazine specialising in fiction, poetry, articles and interviews.



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Advertising rates are very reasonable:
£20 for full page
£12 for half-page

£7.50 for quarter-page

£35 back cover
 
Anyone interested should follow this link.