The BSFA are working in partnership with English Heritage and Flame Tree Press to produce an anthology of works including The Blazing World by Margaret Cavendish, one of the earliest works of #ScienceFiction. @englishheritage.bsky.social
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HWS run events, including Fantasycon 2023 and World Fantsy Convention 2025, as well as other creative projects. Posts by Karen (she/her).
Allen Stroud and Juliet E. McKenna are at Bolsover Castle today talking about Margaret Cavendish and Science Fiction. If you are in the area, do come and say Hi! @julietemckenna.bsky.social @englishheritage.bsky.social
If you want to know more about the proposal you can read the document put together for the BSFA AGM earlier this year: drive.google.com/file/d/1zTAp...
Eastercon 2030.pdf
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The BSFA is putting together a bid to run a convention which combines Eastercon 2030 with Eurocon 2030. Some of the bid team are at Eurocon in Berlin this week. Please do say Hi if you are at the event.
Fantasycon 2027 with World Fantasy Convention will be in Birmingham on the 24th - 26th September 2027. More details of the decisions can be found here: file770.com/statement-ab...
Statement About Dates of Fantasycon 2027 with World Fantasy Convention
Statement by Karen Fishwick. Co-chair Fantasycon 2027: There has been some confusion around Fantasycon 2027, World Fantasy Convention and Eurocon. Fantasycon is the annual convention of the British…
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Fraudsters are AI-mincing books and republishing them onto Amazon. This was done to The Isle in the Silver Sea - I assume in the hope people would accidentally click on it. It's been removed, but this is a warning of something to look out for, to my fellow authors.
Can anyone help a new member get in touch with people willing to beta read his novel? Please message Richard for further details or to discuss.
Richard Reydan@richardreydan.bsky.social · 3mo agoBFS mbr Looking for free beta readers for a 145k dark fantasy, pan-Gaelic novel. An email will be sent to assess if we are suitable for each other. Think John Gwynne’s The Faithful and the Fallen & David ‘s Rigante @britfantasysoc.bsky.social
Paris Celestial, A.Y. Chao's sequel to Shanghai Immortal is out today! Lady Jing is a Minister of Hell, and she's bored. She hatches a plan for an escape trip to Paris- what could possibly go wrong? Romance, danger, and a vampire train hijack! 💙📚🪐
I wrote a little barnyard romance in the style of Bridgerton... ko-fi.com/post/The-Rel...
The Reluctant Rooster
Joanne Harris and the Storytime Band published a post on Ko-fi
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The suggestions list for this year’s British Fantasy Awards is now open! Anyone can add their favourite SFF titles first published in 2025! forms.gle/YcGUjcbU99R5...
British Fantasy Awards 2026 Suggestions
Suggest eligible material for the British Fantasy Awards 2026 Add anything that you feel deserves a nomination for this year's awards. Eligible material should have been published/released for the fi...
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#Booksky Birthday sale ends 1/11!
Queen of Swords Press@qospress.bsky.social · 7mo ago#Booksky Now we are 9! We’re celebrating our 9th birthday as a small press this week! Shop direct from us and use code BIRTHDAY at checkout to get a discount and we’ll enter you in the prize drawing! Help us kickoff a great birthday year! Details here: queenofswordspress.com/happy-birthd...
I'm so excited about this ... Eastercon in Belfast was brilliant, and now I'm going back to the same hotel as a Guest of Honour for the first Norncon in May. Alongside @aptshadow.bsky.social no less! Memberships are available at www.norncon.org
I've got two! The first is Mercutio, from HarperVoyager UK in May. Before he meets Romeo and Juliet, a young man named Mercutio encounters a poet named Dante on a battlefield, and they accidentally open a door to Faerie.
Mercutio
From Sunday Times bestselling author of The Embroidered Book and The Valkyrie comes an opulent 13th century epic retelling of the life of Mercutio before he ever encountered Romeo and Juliet. On the b...
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The second, The Swordmaster, is part of the Vampires of Dumas series from Solaris, which Emma Newman began with The Vengeance. Mine is a distinct storyline from hers, and is set in the time of Catherine de' Medici. No date yet but probably late 2026. Thanks for the thread!
Solaris acquires more vampiric Dumas in The Swordmaster by Kate Heartfield | Rebellion Publishing
Solaris is thrilled to announce the acquisition of The Swordmaster by Kate Heartfield. A new addition to the Vampires of Dumas series, The Swordmaster follows Françoise de Montesquiou d’Artagnan, the ...
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Bookchat@bookchat.bsky.social · 7mo agoThe Most Anticipated Children’s Books of 2026: Which books will the kids in your life fall in love with this year? We hope there will be lots, but to get your reading list started, we invited nine stellar children’s book creators—authors and illustrators of works for… #CraftandCriticism #Features
My novella comes out with @lunapress.bsky.social on Feb 3rd ! Gothic horror set in an alternative Edinburgh, cursed with eternal rain and ghosts that appear in the rain. Also, rituals, occult, creepy house, and weird moths ✨️🏚 linktr.ee/lyndseycroal
okay open call, if you have an SFF romance coming out in 2026, and it's not grindingly heteropatriarchal in outlook and values, please tell me about it! I'm compiling my reading lists!
If all goes well I'll have a small book about excellent highland cows coming out later this year:)
This Is Where The Future Bleeds, wherein a finder of destinies narrowly avoids her own murder and decides to prevent those responsible from getting to their next target. Come for the sapphic romance, stay for the giant wasps. (June, Titan)
Well, I'll have a new volume of the work of Lord Dunsany coming out in the Autumn. Posh hardcover signed boxed edition then a trade . Also illustrating Rise From These Dark Waters from @badhandbooks.bsky.social
Solaris Books@solarisbooks.bsky.social · 7mo agoKick off 2026 by starting a stellar new SciFi series! Featuring: @edashtonwriting.bsky.social @derekkunsken.bsky.social, @deuceofgearsmusic.bsky.social @maryrobinettekowal.com @taranhunt.bsky.social and @lavanya.bsky.social ! Available to buy now across formats from all good bookstores!
Shoreline of Infinity has for a long time now always given immediate access to the digital editions when you order the print copy - have often thought about jazzing up the print edition a little more.
Anyone can now preorder our forthcoming editions of @naominovik.bsky.social's brilliant collection, BURIED DEEP. Full details and preorder here: subterraneanpress.com/novik-bdaos/
Buried Deep and Other Stories (preorder)
Subterranean Press creates readable art, publishing limited editions and groundbreaking original works of science fiction, fantasy, and horror.
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I have an eco-thriller coming out from @shirakipress.com called Accelerated Growth Environment! www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...
Accelerated Growth Environment
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SCRATCH MOSS, my third folk horror -- this one in an industrial/post-industrial setting. Out March 5! www.canelo.co/books/scratc...
Scratch Moss by David Barnett | Canelo
Paperback and Ebook
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I'm releasing The Chosen One Con this year! A queer gaslamp fantasy featuring a contest to find the chosen one in a world of industrial magic and celebrity-branded potions.
My second novel, THE KNIGHT WATCH, will be published by Orbit in June this year. It features the Knights of the Round Table killing Nazis and living their messy queer afterlives during the Second World War. I'll be sharing the wonderful cover art as soon as I'm permitted to do so.
No link yet but I have a cold war SF thriller coming from NewCon Press in the summer. Called The Next Enemy Will Be The Last.