BristolCon

Our first reader for February is John Hawkes-Reed, who treats us to another tale about steam-powered, programmable war elephants. Well, part of a tale anyway. To get the rest of it you'll need to get hold of North by Southwest, a fine anthology by local Bristol writers, and edited by our very own Jo Hall. The book is illustrated by Clare Hutt, who also started BristolCon Frine and drew our logo.

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

And finally there was the usual Q&A session. Emma and Pete were grilled about their writing relationship. How do they manage to live with another writer? Will they ever collaborate on a novel? What has Latimer got to do with all this, and will asking that question lead to a spot of mild peril? All of this and more may be revealed.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.