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BristolCon Fringe: January 2015 - Emma Newman

Emma's reading is also the first couple of chapters from a forthcoming book. Planetfall has no fairies in it. It is a stand-alone science fiction novel about, amongst other things, planetary colonisation and 3D printing. The book will be published by Ace/Roc in the USA in November. There's no sign of a UK release yet, so you all need to start nagging UK publishers to pick it up.

BristolCon Fringe is a monthly reading series produced by the BristolCon Foundation. For details of future events, see our website.

BristolCon Fringe: January 2015 - Pete Newman

Our first meeting for 2015 featured the husband and wife writers: Pete and Emma Newman. Pete nobly went first, and treated us to a couple of chapters from his forthcoming novel, The Vagrant, which will be published by Harper Voyager on April 23rd. The book is perhaps best described as a science-fictional-post-demon-apocalypse story.

BristolCon Fringe is a monthly reading series produced by the BristolCon Foundation. For details of future events, see our website.

BristolCon Fringe: December 2014 - Q&A

And finally, here is the Q&A session in which Huw and Gareth are quizzed by the host for the evening, Joanne Hall, and by members of the audience.

BristolCon Fringe is a monthly reading series produced by the BristolCon Foundation. For details of future events, see our website.

BristolCon Fringe: December 2014 - Gareth Powell

This is Gareth's reading, which is from Macaque Attack, the third and final volume in the Ack-Ack Macaque trilogy. As is usual with Ack-Ack, there is plenty of full-on swearing involved; and rather a lot of violence.

BristolCon Fringe: December 2014 - Huw Powell

We've got a little behind with posting these, but now that the new year is here we hope to at least re-establish a regular schedule, and hopefully get caught up. To start off 2015 we'll be posting recordings from our December meeting which featured the Fabulous Flying Powell Brothers, a.k.a. Huw and Gareth.

This is Huw's reading. It is from Spacejackers, his middle grade novel about Space Pirates. There may be skullduggery involved.

Bristolcon Fringe: July 2014 - Q&A

Finally we had our traditional Q&A session. Andy talks about a growing push from publishers for ungendered marketing. Ken talks about puns. Pete & Cheryl talk about an exciting event happening in Bristol at the end of August that will feature Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, details of which can be found here.

BristolCon Fringe is a monthly reading series produced by the BristolCon Foundation. For details of future events, see our website.

Bristolcon Fringe: July 2014 - Ken Shinn

Our second reader for July was Ken Shinn. Ken's first published story was in Airship Shape & Bristol Fashion. He has a story about gnomes due out in a horror anthology later this year. He read us a story called "Hillraiser", which is about demons, and Benny Hill.

BristolCon Fringe is a monthly reading series produced by the BristolCon Foundation. For details of future events, see our website.

Bristolcon Fringe: July 2014 - Andy Goodman

Our first reader for July was Andrew Goodman. Andy writes novel for young (mostly) male readers. Amongst other achievements, he was a semi-finalist in the 2009 British Short Screenplay Competition. Andy read to us from the opening of his novel, Tiberius Found.

BristolCon Fringe is a monthly reading series produced by the BristolCon Foundation. For details of future events, see our website.

Bristolcon Fringe: June 2014 - Q&A

Finally our readers are subjected to the usual interrogation. There are quite a few matters arising.

When Pete mentions that Jo writes Grimdark he is, of course, referring to our own Joanne Hall, not that Abercrombie fellow who doesn't have nearly the same body count.

David makes mention of something called BRP. That's Chaosium's Basic Role Playing system, which formed the core of all of the rule sets they produced back in the day.

If you'd like to know more about David's work with the Cthulhu mythos, he has a guest post about it on Pete's blog.

The deadly Call of Cthulhu scenario that David refers to is "Roots" by Simon Brake which appears in the collection, Things We Leave Behind from Stygian Fox.

And finally, Wikipedia has little to say about alternative versions of the magpie song, other than to confirm Pete's assertion that the version he is using is older than the one used by the TV programme.

Bristolcon Fringe: June 2014 - Pete Sutton

Our second June reader, Pete Sutton, works for a French company and once wrote a play — but asks that you don’t hold that against him. He sits in his not so secret lair in the wilds of Fishponds, Bristol and dreams up stories, many of which are about magpies. He’s had some stuff published, although he’s convinced that was by mistake, and currently has a pile of words that one day may possibly be a novel, or at least an approximation of one. You can find him all over social media, sometimes even as himself. He can be found on Twitter as @suttope and his Bristol Book Blog is here & he’s one of the editors of Far Horizons e-magazine which can be found here.

BristolCon Fringe is a monthly reading series produced by the BristolCon Foundation. For details of future events, see our website.