Tomorrow (Saturday, 11th May), I’ll be a guest at the Enniskillen Comic Fest, in St. Macartin’s Cathedral Hall, 2 Halls Lane, Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, BT74 7DR. I’m very much looking forward to it, particularly since so many friends are also going. They asked me to have a table, so I’ll be bringing along whatever I can fit into my 23kg of luggage, including a bunch of first issues and books. (I may even bring some comic-related items from my attic sale!) Here, in pictorial form, is where you can find me, and when I’m doing my panel.
In other news, my little literary festival, the Fairford Festival of Fiction, on Saturday June 8th, in the gorgeous Cotswolds market town of Fairford, now has its full complement of guests: Red Dwarf co-creator Doug Naylor; The Sky at Night presenter Prof. Lucie Green; Doctor Who storyboarder and Apollo and Marvel comics artist Mike Collins; award-winning children’s novelist and creator of Podkin One-Ear Kieran Larwood and SF and Warhammer author Jaine Fenn.
But, with my FFoF tent being only one of many in the larger Fairford Festival, we can offer many other attractions too. Like a parade around the town at noon that day with Daleks and Cybermen involved. There’ll be astronomy and space-related attraction all day, particularly for children, and a TARDIS with lights and sound effects ready for photo opportunities. Plus a beer tent with a huge selection of real ales and ciders, food stalls, bands and dancing into the night!
And on the Sunday, the wider Festival continues, with space expert Libby Jackson (author of A Galaxy of Her Own: Amazing Stories of Women in Space) appearing in the main tent. There’s also a fete, all the bands and beer, and at the end of it all I’m helping to present a quiz!
Do come along if you can. It’s three days (well, four if you count the Planetarium we’re putting in a local school on the Thursday) of space-related fun, a lovely weekend in the country. Tickets for the Festival of Fiction cost £8 for the whole day (available here), with one child free per paying adult, but you can get into the rest of the Fairford Festival for just a small donation at the gate.
Voting is now open (until May 15th) for the Listeners’ Choice category of the British Podcast Awards, and Liz and I would much appreciate it if you’d consider our Hammer House of Podcast for it! Thank you!
And on the evening of Monday, 20th May, from 7.30pm, I’ll be appearing at the monthly BristolCon Fringe meeting, where a regular audience watches two SFF authors read from their work and asks questions. The Fringe takes place at the Gryphon pub (41 Colston St, Bristol BS1 5AP). I’m there to read from The Lights Go Out in Lychford and to promote Fairford Festival of Fiction. The other author on that evening is R.B. Watkinson. The meeting now has a Facebook Event page. Admission is free. Do come along if you can.
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