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    Real Pandemics and Science Fiction
    Allen Stroud
    • Aug 8, 2020
    • 6 min

    Real Pandemics and Science Fiction

    Recently I was approached by Guardian journalist Laura Spinney to offer a comment on the way in which the current situation with the Coro...
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    April Update - How it went...
    Karen
    • May 9, 2019
    • 4 min

    April Update - How it went...

    The year seems to be skipping by, I'm not sure how we are in the the fifth month already, so i am going to try and make sense of it all b...
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    The Art of Reviewing?
    Karen
    • Apr 23, 2019
    • 6 min

    The Art of Reviewing?

    I was sitting in the audience for a panel, at Eastercon this year, titled "The Art of Reviewing" where some wonderfully interesting indiv...
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    Self Promotion Part 2 - Promote in Print or in Person
    Karen
    • Jan 21, 2019
    • 4 min

    Self Promotion Part 2 - Promote in Print or in Person

    Having been around the publishing industry for a little while now and attended talks and panels with industry professionals, I occasional...
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    Self Promotion... the Art of Getting Noticed - Part 1
    Karen
    • Dec 4, 2018
    • 6 min

    Self Promotion... the Art of Getting Noticed - Part 1

    Having been around the publishing industry for a little while now and attended talks and panels with industry professionals, I occasional...
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    A slightly late October Update...
    Karen
    • Nov 5, 2018
    • 3 min

    A slightly late October Update...

    So I meant to write an update for October, but I seem to have missed that particular deadline... I guess if you have been reading our blo...
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    Fantasycon 2018
    Allen Stroud
    • Oct 26, 2018
    • 3 min

    Fantasycon 2018

    So, the event is over, and I'm currently enjoying my first morning off. This weekend will be a slow one, catching up on all the abandoned...
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    Lavecon
    Karen
    • Aug 20, 2018
    • 1 min

    Lavecon

    We never set out to run a convention, #Lavecon is the convention we accidentally ran... Elite Dangerous began life as a successful Kickst...
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    Fantasycon 2018
    Karen
    • Aug 20, 2018
    • 1 min

    Fantasycon 2018

    Fantasycon is the annual convention of the British Fantasy Society ( #BFS ) which has been running since the 1970's, but this is the seco...
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    Karen
    • Aug 20, 2018
    • 3 min

    Events for New SFF Writers

    Why would new writers want to go to events, which events could they go to and what could they be realistically be aiming for at those eve...
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    Fantasycon 2017
    Karen
    • Aug 19, 2018
    • 1 min

    Fantasycon 2017

    Fantasycon 2017 was the first Fantasycon organised by HWS (we have run conventions before, just not this one) and we had a lot of fun and...
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