If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! 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, [...]
Fans of the wonderful Discworld series will be delighted to learn that a new novel is due for release in October. The new Discworld novel from fantasy master Sir Terry Pratchett sees Sam Vimes investigating a countryhouse murder; Snuff is number 39 in the acclaimed Discworld novel and Sir Terry’s fiftieth book. According to the [...]
The winners of the Nebula Awards, sponsored by the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America, were presented on Saturday 21 May 2011 in Washington, DC, as a part of the Nebular Awards Weekend. Best Novel went to Connie Willis for Blackout/All Clear (Spectra), while the Best Novella was “The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers [...]
Science fiction and fantasy made a respectable showing when the American Library Association announced its annual awards on 10 January at its midwinter conference in San Diego, California. Ship Breaker (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers), by Hugo and Nebula Award winner Paolo Bacigalupi, was awarded the Michael L. Printz Award for excellence in literature [...]
The winners of the World Fantasy Life Achievement Awards have been announced ahead of the awards’ presentation at the awards banquet at World Fantasy Convention 36, to be held 28 through 31 October in Columbus, Ohio. There are three honorees this year, including Brian Lumley, Terry Pratchett and Peter Straub. The three writers are being [...]
Transworld Publishers and Sir Terry Pratchett have announced a contest for new writers. The contest, called the Terry Pratchett Anywhere But Here, Anywhen But Now Prize, is open to writers over 18 years old who live in the UK, the Republic of Ireland, or the British Commonwealth and who have never published a full-length work [...]
The Graveyard Book (Bloomsbury), by Neil Gaiman, has been awarded the Carnegie Medal for 2010 as the most outstanding children’s book to be published in the UK. In recognition of the award, Gaiman will receive a gold medal and £500 worth of books to be donated to any library he chooses. In winning the Medal, [...]
It must be awards season. Within a few minutes of when I finished writing about the final ballot for the Hugo Awards, I learned that the finalists have been announced for this years Locus Awards, a poll of the readers of Locus magazine. Despite being announced a couple of weeks after the finalists for the [...]
Following the successes of the “Hogfather” and “The Colour of Magic” from the books by Terry Pratchett, Sky One are in the process of producing yet another classic from the writer. Production of “Going Postal” is under way in Budapest, Hungary. Where the all British cast including Richard Coyle as Moist Von Lipwig, David Suchet [...]
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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