What a manic few days. The festival is in full swing and there are still 7 events to go over the next 6 days.
Last Wednesday I was interviewed by Cheryl Morgan for Ujima radio which is probably still on the listen again function - it's the Women's Outlook hour & I'm on towards the end of the show.
Then on Thursday it was an Evening at the Fear Institute (of which I've blogged)
Friday there were three events - a workshop hosted by Moniack Mhor which I was unable to attend as it was in work hours.
The Creating Comics panel event at Waterstones hosted by Cheryl Morgan and featuring Mike Carey, Paul Cornell, Cavan Scott & Jess Bradley. I was especially excited to meet Jess as my favourite squid t-shirt was designed by her. It was a very interesting chat and the differences between the panelists versus the similarities (big publishing houses versus small, kids versus adults etc) sparked lots of discussion.
Cheryl has a write up here:
The final event of the evening was Word Karaoke - sadly couldn't make it as was at the Creating Comics event but by all accounts it was great fun. Nick Rawlinson's Performance Masterclass, the traditional warm up for the Word Karaoke, shouldn't be missed!
Then after too little sleep Saturday was upon us and again we had three events (more if you count the many talks during the Book Bazaar)
I was at the inaugural Bristol HorrorCon which had a fantastic turnout (in the hundreds) ably organised by Tommy
(Thanks to Tommy for the photo)
I was running the first panel of the day with guests - Mike Carey, Jonathan L Howard, Sara Jayne Townsend and Rosie Sharrat - we talked about monstrous fiction, zombies, scary stories, psychological and cosmic horror and zombies.
At the end of the panel we got to announce the winners of our horror writing competition:
Ro McNulty in 3rd place with Dead Angel
April Jane Rowan in 2nd place with Gardener's Delight
Baylea Hart won the competition with her incredibly creepy Jack-in-the-box
The winners will all be published in the November issue of Far Horizons Magazine
Also during Saturday was the Book Bazaar, but I didn't attend - the festival had a load of local writers and publishers together in the Lab Space on Bristol Harbourside. I was at the same event on the Sunday & the mix of talks and book buying opportunities was very nice.
Saturday night was the Festival Launch party (yes I thought it was odd that the launch came after several events too) with Natalie Burns hosting
(Thanks to Tom Parker for the pic - this is Ellen Waddell reading a hilarious "the truth of interviews" mono-dialogue)
Sunday may have been a day of rest but I was up early again and down to the Harbourside to man a table for the Book Bazaar. It was a pretty quiet day but the talks, about the business of selling books, were all very interesting. I thought Ken Elkes's talk on book publicity especially interesting.
There was a Haiku expert on hand to teach you all about Haiku's and it was a nice space with a constant trickle of members of the public come to browse books.
Also on Sunday, which I had to sadly miss as was manning the book stall, was Tom Parker's Scroll & Stroll and the Stokes Croft Writers "For the Love of Reading" - if I come across any blogs about any of the events I've missed I'll link them here...
Tonight I'll be at the BristolCon Fringe where Jonathan L Howard & Jo Hall are reading from their new books.
Mor bloggage as the week progresses...
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