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Fantasycon 2018: Schedule

Not long now until Fantasycon, which this year takes place at The Queen Hotel, Chester over 19th – 21st October. The programme is online now, and here’s where you can find me across the weekend.

FRIDAY

5:30pm – Robot Companions in Film and Television
The Albert (Panel Room 2)
Stewart Hotston (m), Russell Smith, Eric Ian Steele, Dominic Dulley, Ruth EJ Booth

50 full minutes of my Kryten impression, including such highlights as smug mode, smeeeee heeeee, and Space Corps Directive 34124 (NSFW).

SATURDAY

1:00pm – Readings: Fantasy
The Disraeli (Reading Room)
Steve McHugh, Sandra Unerman, Ruth EJ Booth

Just a heads up: for fantasy, read dark fantasy. Very, very dark fantasy.

7:00pm – Writers and Computer Games
*UPDATE* The Victoria (Panel Room 1)
Allen Stroud (m), Ruth EJ Booth, Ben P Holden, Jaine Fenn, Powder

Join us for my in-depth analysis of why the recent World of Warcraft expansion has completely ruined my chances of getting my paper on Sylvanas Windrunner — which, by the way, I got a really decent mark on in class — from ever getting published. Not that I’m bitter or anything.

SUNDAY

3:00pm – The British Fantasy Awards
The Jubilee Room

Oh blimey. Well, fingers crossed, eh?

Apart from that, I’ll be floating about the convention all weekend, so please feel free to say hi. Do note that, as I have Social Anxiety Disorder, it’s a good idea to use the Frozen Rule of Chat. If I’m sat down, especially with a group of people, that’s a good time to say hello. If I look like I’m running on my way somewhere, then make like Elsa and let it go, let it go.

If you’re going, hope to see you there!

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Fiction New Story

Incoming: In the Digital Dreams of NewCon Press…

More on 2016 releases from me – and this time, I’ve got some fiction news for you.

Digital Dreams - a NewCon Press Anthology

As part of their 10th anniversary celebrations, NewCon Press are releasing Digital Dreams – an eBook only retrospective celebrating the imprint’s history of publishing great women authors. Ian Whates has a wonderful selection to choose from, so it’s no surprise to find such luminaries as Lauren Beukes, Kim Lakin-Smith, Pat Cadigan, Justina Robson, Tricia Sullivan, Jaine Fenn, and Nina Allen all contributing tales. It’ll be well worth picking up.

I’m proud to say that my story ‘The Honey Trap’ will also be appearing alongside them. This tale first appeared in the NewCon anthology Noir, and won the Best Short Fiction prize at the BSFA awards earlier this year.

For more information, the full Table of Contents – and pre-order link – are both online now.