If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Sam Stone, whose novel Demon Dance (The House of Murky Depths) was voted the August Derlith Fantasy Award for Best Novel at the British Fantasy Awards earlier this month, has returned the award after a controversy over the awards. [...]
The winners of the 2011 British Fantasy Awards were announced on 2 October 2011 at FantasyCon 2011, the British Fantasy Convention, held in Brighton, UK. Among the awards given during the ceremony was the Karl Edward Wagner Special Award, which went to Terry Pratchett. The winner of the August Derleth Fantasy Award for Best Novel [...]
The British Fantasy Society has announced the nominees for the 2011 British Fantasy Awards. The nominees for the August Derlith Fantasy Award, for best novel, are Apartment 16 (Pan Macmillan), by Adam Nevill; Demon Dance (The House of Murky Depths), by Sam Stone; The Leaping (Quercus), by Tom Fletcher; Pretty Little Dead Things (Angry Robot), [...]
Nominees for the British Fantasy Awards have been announced, with winners to be announced at a banquet on Sunday, 19 September, during FantasyCon 2010, to be held 17 through 19 September at Nottingham, UK. The finalists for Best Novel include Best Served Cold, (Gollancz), by Joe Abercrombie; Futile Flame (House of Murky Depths), by Sam [...]
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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