If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Winners of the World Fantasy Awards for 2011 were announced last weekend at the World Fantasy Convention in San Diego, California. Best Novel was Nnedi Okorafor’s Who Fears Death (DAW), which was also a Nebula Award finalist for best [...]
The 2010 World Fantasy Awards were presented as part of the World Fantasy Convention on Sunday, 31 October in Columbus, Ohio. The awards were for works published in 2009. Winner in the Novel category was The City & The City (Macmillan UK/Del Rey), by China Miéville. The book has already won the 2010 Arthur C. [...]
The Shirley Jackson Awards in recognition of outstanding achievement in the literature of horror, psychological suspense and dark fantasy fiction published in 2009 were presented at the Readercon 21 Conference on Imaginative Literature, held 8 – 11 July 2010 in Burlington, Massachusetts. The award for a novel went to Big Machine (Spiegel & Grau), by [...]
Man of Steel teaser trailer released
If you’re sick of comic-book adaptations and film remakes, the last thing you might expect to get excited about is a new Superman film. That’s right: there’s a new Superman film scheduled for release in 2013. However, before you run off groaning at the idea of yet another mediocre cash-in, this one comes with caveats. [...]
Penguin owner buys ASI self-publishing company
According to the BBC, Pearson, which owns Penguin books among other things, has bought Author Solutions Inc in a £74 million deal. The deal means that Pearson now has control of a self-publishing interest. The news has raised concerns among some writers that intellectual property (IP) rights for new writers may be at risk, especially [...]
The Winner of our April 300 Word Writing Challenge is writer John J Brady, (known on these forums as alchemist). He wins a £10 voucher to spend at Amazon or The Book Depository, our quarterly prize. As usual, the challenge our members faced was to write a story of no more than 300 words, inspired [...]
Forum member Teresa Edgerton is the winner of our January 300 Word Writing Challenge. She wins a £10 voucher to spend at The Book Depository, our quarterly prize. As usual, the challenge our members faced was to write a story of no more than 300 words, inspired by an image selected by our moderators. For [...]
All Zombies Must Die hits the Xbox
At the weekend, All Zombies Must Die was unleashed on Xbox Live. As you can probably guess from the title, this is a rather tongue in cheek game developed by Doublesix with a focus on multiplayer zombie slaying. Set in the town of Deadhill, All Zombies Must Die offers a huge variety of weapons (such [...]
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