H&N
Will be catching up on outstanding H&N stuff in the next couple of days so if you're waiting to hear back from me on general email queries then hold tight. Haven't had a chance to read any submissions yet, in case that helps. Should be doing that in the next couple of weeks.
Messageboards still down as the spammers are relentless.
Fcon
And Oh. My. Holy. F***!
Have just had confirmation about 2 more surprise GoHs. Surprise, as in, we thought we'd reached our limit with the 3 fab ones we'd already got - but no, one of these chaps is over on a tour for his latest book around Fcon time and his publisher asked if we wanted him.. so, sluts that we are, we said yes. Then there's this other chap. To be named in a few days at his request, but O.M.G.! The details will go up on the Fcon site shortly (and I really must get around to doing something on the fcon blog...) You definitely have to get in early for Fcon this year cos this may well be a sell out... :->
15 February 2006
07 January 2006
H&N
In case you noticed, the messageboard is currently out of action - this is due to severe overload from those poxy spammers. 30 spam posts a day is bordering on excessive, no?
Fcon
So close to announcing stuff, dammit.... we're just waiting for the BFS web guy to finish doing the new website then it's all trumpets and brass bands.
Prism
This is your last call for news if you've anything that needs going in the Jan/Feb issue - I'll need your press releases etc. by the end of the week or it'll have to wait 'til the next one!
Egypt...
...was fab! Totally recommend it to anyone thinking of going. (We did it the easy way - a Nile cruise with guided tours almost every day - subsequently, I'll have no money for the next 5 years.... )
Evil twin and I had a lot of fun playing spot the Stargate/Mummy Returns references... Karnak! Philae! (Seen them, been harassed by the tourist tack touts...) Abydos! (Which, apparently isn't just a planet in Stargate, it's actually a real live town too!)
Didn't get to see the pyramids as we were at the other end of the country (and the Cairo overland trip was on the same day as the one to the Valley of the Kings so we went VoK instead)
And I'm all templed out now!
And they take English money everywhere! How handy is that?! Although the whole tipping thing gets very old, very fast. (What, you want me to pay you a tip for selling me something in your shop... dude, please...)
And someone offered 3000 camels for Evil Twin! Seriously! (Someone else started out offering 1 camel for taking me, mum and Hells as a package, but obviously we were holding her back because someone else offered 20 camels for Hells on her own, then one of the waiters upped it to 3000 after seeing her in Eqypt gear on one of the boats theme nights. They also all begged dad to leave Hells behind when we left...!)
Good grief the Nile gets a bit manic with boats, though. Apparently there's about 346 cruise ships going up and down it (and they park up 6 in a row, so sometimes you have to walk through a few other ships to get ashore...) then there's hundreds of these boat taxi things (the word 'taxi' should give you half a clue about their style of driving... how they never hit anything I'll never know...) plus feluccas (small sailboats) and rowboats all over the place.
So much wow! So I'll shut up now!
In case you noticed, the messageboard is currently out of action - this is due to severe overload from those poxy spammers. 30 spam posts a day is bordering on excessive, no?
Fcon
So close to announcing stuff, dammit.... we're just waiting for the BFS web guy to finish doing the new website then it's all trumpets and brass bands.
Prism
This is your last call for news if you've anything that needs going in the Jan/Feb issue - I'll need your press releases etc. by the end of the week or it'll have to wait 'til the next one!
Egypt...
...was fab! Totally recommend it to anyone thinking of going. (We did it the easy way - a Nile cruise with guided tours almost every day - subsequently, I'll have no money for the next 5 years.... )
Evil twin and I had a lot of fun playing spot the Stargate/Mummy Returns references... Karnak! Philae! (Seen them, been harassed by the tourist tack touts...) Abydos! (Which, apparently isn't just a planet in Stargate, it's actually a real live town too!)
Didn't get to see the pyramids as we were at the other end of the country (and the Cairo overland trip was on the same day as the one to the Valley of the Kings so we went VoK instead)
And I'm all templed out now!
And they take English money everywhere! How handy is that?! Although the whole tipping thing gets very old, very fast. (What, you want me to pay you a tip for selling me something in your shop... dude, please...)
And someone offered 3000 camels for Evil Twin! Seriously! (Someone else started out offering 1 camel for taking me, mum and Hells as a package, but obviously we were holding her back because someone else offered 20 camels for Hells on her own, then one of the waiters upped it to 3000 after seeing her in Eqypt gear on one of the boats theme nights. They also all begged dad to leave Hells behind when we left...!)
Good grief the Nile gets a bit manic with boats, though. Apparently there's about 346 cruise ships going up and down it (and they park up 6 in a row, so sometimes you have to walk through a few other ships to get ashore...) then there's hundreds of these boat taxi things (the word 'taxi' should give you half a clue about their style of driving... how they never hit anything I'll never know...) plus feluccas (small sailboats) and rowboats all over the place.
So much wow! So I'll shut up now!
04 January 2006
Body present, brain elsewhere....
Morning! So, we got back from Egypt at 4am yesterday (more on *that* in a day or so when I'm awake...) and it seems I've now got the gross sounding cold the people in the seats behind me on the plane had. Double yuck. Like I need any encouragement for ear, nose & throat problems...
Meantime, while I've been gone, it seems everyone has been busy sending in their submissions! Nice one, thanks. (People have also been busy filling the forum with spam posts again, the gits...)
Now just the 400 odd emails to sort out....
Morning! So, we got back from Egypt at 4am yesterday (more on *that* in a day or so when I'm awake...) and it seems I've now got the gross sounding cold the people in the seats behind me on the plane had. Double yuck. Like I need any encouragement for ear, nose & throat problems...
Meantime, while I've been gone, it seems everyone has been busy sending in their submissions! Nice one, thanks. (People have also been busy filling the forum with spam posts again, the gits...)
Now just the 400 odd emails to sort out....
24 December 2005
22 December 2005
More Mag Stuff
Right chaps, I must be having a good day today because it's now official - we're open for fiction submissions again! (Runs away in abject terror...)
The all new rules - just so you folks don't waste away in joint boredom and frustration while you're waiting for a response... we're implementing a reading period on fiction submissions. December to May is when I want to see your stories please. I'm reading for issues 9 - 12 (which, at the new bi-annually schedule takes us right up to the beginning of 2008. Of course, if sales pick up (and, hence, income, then we'll slide back to quarterly...) And if we get those four issues filled, then we'll close to fiction again, natch!
We really prefer email subs - see the guidelines on the website for details...
Oh, and faction and art subs are still open all year round.
Also, if you haven't subscribed, please do. If you're up for resubscription, please please do! (I will beg and plead until my knees wear out - I have absolutely no pride! )
BFS bits
Well, that was quick! Further to the new Prism editor details I gave a little while ago, Nicki has now decided she doesn't want to do any more issues past the Jan/Feb one - so for the time being, Prism will be co-edited by mum and, er, me. (She gets the hard work stuff, I get the fun stuff - great split!)
And on a BFS/H&N double hatted moment... send me your news please! For Prism, and for the new news page in H&N. Both the personal stuff - ie. been signed by agent/publisher, having a book coming out, having the next issue of your own magazine coming out, submission gls for any projects you're organising; and other genre news - details about conventions, launch parties/piss-ups, genre/writing course details, tv/film gossip, comic & RPG stuff...
You get the picture. The Prism [at] BFS email should be changed shortly to come over to us, but in the meantime, I've set up a gremlin[at]bradanpress email (or just send it to one of my other ones!)
Right chaps, I must be having a good day today because it's now official - we're open for fiction submissions again! (Runs away in abject terror...)
The all new rules - just so you folks don't waste away in joint boredom and frustration while you're waiting for a response... we're implementing a reading period on fiction submissions. December to May is when I want to see your stories please. I'm reading for issues 9 - 12 (which, at the new bi-annually schedule takes us right up to the beginning of 2008. Of course, if sales pick up (and, hence, income, then we'll slide back to quarterly...) And if we get those four issues filled, then we'll close to fiction again, natch!
We really prefer email subs - see the guidelines on the website for details...
Oh, and faction and art subs are still open all year round.
Also, if you haven't subscribed, please do. If you're up for resubscription, please please do! (I will beg and plead until my knees wear out - I have absolutely no pride! )
BFS bits
Well, that was quick! Further to the new Prism editor details I gave a little while ago, Nicki has now decided she doesn't want to do any more issues past the Jan/Feb one - so for the time being, Prism will be co-edited by mum and, er, me. (She gets the hard work stuff, I get the fun stuff - great split!)
And on a BFS/H&N double hatted moment... send me your news please! For Prism, and for the new news page in H&N. Both the personal stuff - ie. been signed by agent/publisher, having a book coming out, having the next issue of your own magazine coming out, submission gls for any projects you're organising; and other genre news - details about conventions, launch parties/piss-ups, genre/writing course details, tv/film gossip, comic & RPG stuff...
You get the picture. The Prism [at] BFS email should be changed shortly to come over to us, but in the meantime, I've set up a gremlin[at]bradanpress email (or just send it to one of my other ones!)
16 December 2005
Oopsie.
Why do I not pick these things up in the proof stage, eh? Before you send emails to tell me, yes, I know, the contents page is totally cocked up - seems I forgot to alter it after adding a page in the middle of the mag... And there's box slippage... and Jamie Brindle gets called James.... (sigh!)
Why do I not pick these things up in the proof stage, eh? Before you send emails to tell me, yes, I know, the contents page is totally cocked up - seems I forgot to alter it after adding a page in the middle of the mag... And there's box slippage... and Jamie Brindle gets called James.... (sigh!)
14 December 2005
H&N
....daaaan-cing...... wooh! Ahem. Yes, happy chappies, #7 is finally back from the printers. (And, as usual, I will be incapable of rational thought for at least a week now - getting a mag back from the printers always has this weird effect on me...)
Will get it in the post to folks Fri/Sat so UK people should get theirs next week. Non-UK peeps will probably be getting theirs after Xmas, depending on what all the postal systems are up to.
Hurrah! Now to get the website updated, get Issue 8 started and get the new submission guidelines sorted out for when we (finally) open back up to fiction.
....daaaan-cing...... wooh! Ahem. Yes, happy chappies, #7 is finally back from the printers. (And, as usual, I will be incapable of rational thought for at least a week now - getting a mag back from the printers always has this weird effect on me...)
Will get it in the post to folks Fri/Sat so UK people should get theirs next week. Non-UK peeps will probably be getting theirs after Xmas, depending on what all the postal systems are up to.
Hurrah! Now to get the website updated, get Issue 8 started and get the new submission guidelines sorted out for when we (finally) open back up to fiction.
02 December 2005
Funny....
Something to make you smile... apparently a columnist for a Norway newspaper has floated the idea that JK Rowling didn't really write the HP books all on her own... no, she's really the spokeswoman/actress front for an international conglomerate who employs a team of hack writers to do the books....
Uh huh.
Fun debate about it going on at Ex Isle too...
Something to make you smile... apparently a columnist for a Norway newspaper has floated the idea that JK Rowling didn't really write the HP books all on her own... no, she's really the spokeswoman/actress front for an international conglomerate who employs a team of hack writers to do the books....
Uh huh.
Fun debate about it going on at Ex Isle too...
Even more Fcon stuff....
Guest no. 3 has just confirmed! Hurrah! Think I know just the chap to interview him too. (Mind you, this organising interviewers malarkey is always a delicate business, some people don't want to do print interviews so we've always got too many stage interviewers and not enough print ones... sigh! 'tis a challenge, so it is.....)
Guest no. 4 - his publishers won't contribute to airfare so we're frantically trying to find a way we can cover it - cos it would be exceptionally cool if we could get him over. Rumour has it, someone has a cunning plan...
More odd things
New entry to the Inventory Clerks' cache of urban legends - yesterday the old mother woman gets a call from a friend of hers (who she trained, and who has her own company down t' road in Bracknell...) ... anyhoo, this friend of hers had had a call from one of the Estate Agents she works for warning her that another one of their inventory clerks (are you keeping up...?!) had been in a house and had rubbed her fingers over a grubby patch to see if it came off (as we do...) .... then later in the day had stuck her fingers in mouth (or something..), then next day got rushed into hospital because she'd apparently caught Typhoid! Typhoid?! Good grief. Not something on the list of things to watch out for when checking over a house!
Guest no. 3 has just confirmed! Hurrah! Think I know just the chap to interview him too. (Mind you, this organising interviewers malarkey is always a delicate business, some people don't want to do print interviews so we've always got too many stage interviewers and not enough print ones... sigh! 'tis a challenge, so it is.....)
Guest no. 4 - his publishers won't contribute to airfare so we're frantically trying to find a way we can cover it - cos it would be exceptionally cool if we could get him over. Rumour has it, someone has a cunning plan...
More odd things
New entry to the Inventory Clerks' cache of urban legends - yesterday the old mother woman gets a call from a friend of hers (who she trained, and who has her own company down t' road in Bracknell...) ... anyhoo, this friend of hers had had a call from one of the Estate Agents she works for warning her that another one of their inventory clerks (are you keeping up...?!) had been in a house and had rubbed her fingers over a grubby patch to see if it came off (as we do...) .... then later in the day had stuck her fingers in mouth (or something..), then next day got rushed into hospital because she'd apparently caught Typhoid! Typhoid?! Good grief. Not something on the list of things to watch out for when checking over a house!
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