This weekend was the World Fantasy Convention in Brighton - a celebration of fantasy, sf, horror and weird fiction, which only visits the UK once in a blue moon.

Thursday 31st OctoberMine and Jay's WFC started on Thursday with a morning roadtrip from Leicester to Brighton with fellow Speculators (our local writing group) Lucy and Phil. Lucy had ( Read more... )

I rather liked the idea of Worlds Without End Women of Genre Reading Challenge, but didn't want to commit myself to choosing from their list of authors or posting reviews ( Read more... )

On Saturday 14th July Jay & I headed off to Quad in Derby for Edge-Lit, a sf&f& horror convention.

Due to going on a roundabout route via Melton to drop Loki off at my sister's we arrived just after the event started. So we missed the What Makes a Good Short Story? panel & headed to the venue cafe for a much needed cuppa. After refreshment we got ( Read more... )

Late Sunday afternoon Jay & I headed over to The Staff of Life pub in Mowsley, Leicestershire (which turned out to be about 15mins away from us) for the UnBound Video Editions Blog event: Hauntings.

We went to their previous event Zombies, which included interviews with authors of zombie novels and filming a mini zombie apocalypse. You can see the ( Read more... )

Last night we headed off for the Halloween Horror Night at Warwick Arts Centre, hosted by Read Horror and featuring Adam Nevill, David Moody and Gary McMahon.

We waited until the last minute to decide whether to go, as it depended on Jay being home from work early enough, and me having enough energy. Happily both occurred. We utilised Jay's sat nav ( Read more... )