I’m pleased to announce that I’ve got a story in The Alchemy Book of Urban Mythic, the follow-up to The Alchemy Book of Ancient Wonders, due to be launched at the World Fantasy Con in Brighton this year. I’m sharing the bill with an impressive range of writers. Here’s the full table of contents: James […]
Urban Mythic
Posted by Jaine Fenn on 11 July 2013 1
Being literary in the West Country
Posted by Jaine Fenn on 3 July 2013 2
In just under two weeks, on Tuesday July 16th, I’ll be a guest of the Storyslingers writers’ group in Shaftesbury, Dorset. I’ll be appearing with Urban Fantasy author Suzanne McLeod at the Shaftesbury Arts Centre at 6.30pm. We’re planning on doing short readings then a fairly informal Q & A. We’ll do our best to […]
Andromeda One
Posted by Jaine Fenn on 20 June 2013 1
I’m delighted to announce that I’ll be a Guest of Honour at Andromeda One, a new one-day convention being held in Birmingham on Saturday 21st September. As an added bonus, I’ll be sharing the GoH spot with the prodigiously talented Paul Cornell, who is one of my favorite people.
And now I’ll never know…
Posted by Jaine Fenn on 14 June 2013 5
Iain Banks’s untimely death has, quite rightly, got plenty of attention this week. My own feelings can’t be fully summed up without some rude and angry words, but in dilute form, they’ve be something like, How could you do that, you bastard universe/god!* Like a lot of British SF fans of my generation, I knew […]
In praise of durable office supplies
Posted by Jaine Fenn on 3 June 2013 4
Some writers need – or at least claim to need – to hand-write only in the finest moleskine notebook, handcrafted by artisans from quality ingredients (etc etc). Myself, I’m a scrawler, and this level of luxury would be lost on me. Not to mention, I might lose it. Notebooks, generally, are disposable items, and I […]
Adventure Rocketship!
Posted by Jaine Fenn on 12 May 2013 2
I love music. I’m a consumer not a creator, with eclectic tastes (as I write this I’m listening to an internet radio station devoted to electro-swing), but music matters to me, in every aspect of my life – including my fiction. So, I was pleased to be asked to play a small part in the […]
One for the Gamers – a review of Mindjammer
Posted by Jaine Fenn on 25 April 2013 2
Mindjammer is a book which shows its origins. The author is a gaming professional and, as someone who’s dabbled in in Science Fiction RPGs myself, this comes through both in the book’s structure and in the approach taken to telling the story. Rather than focusing on a single character, we’re with a group, and whilst […]
Parish Notices
Posted by Jaine Fenn on 11 April 2013 0
A piece of bad news to start: the residential writing course on the second weekend in May, at which I was going to give a workshop, has unfortunately been cancelled. Something more positive: Readwave is a new site covering several genres. They don’t pay up front for your stories, but you retain all rights, and […]
Eastercon
Posted by Jaine Fenn on 21 March 2013 2
I now have my schedule for Eight Squared: – Friday 5pm (Hawthorn (presumably a room, not a tree)) – Reading, a slot I’m sharing with Cory Doctorow. I’ll let him decide who goes first, and probably read one of the stories from Downside Girls. – Saturday 7pm (in the Conservatory … with the lead piping […]
Downbelow Station
Posted by Jaine Fenn on 14 March 2013 0
Following on from my piece for the SFX Book Club on Mary Gentle’s Golden Witchbreed recently, the UK’s favorite genre ‘zine asked me to pick another book, and I chose CJ Cherryh’s Downbelow Station. This time I’ve even remembered to let people know in time to read the book and comment on the SFX website. […]