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     Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.151.125.7 |
Does anyone know the dates of this yet? Soozy n'me had a fantastic time this year (despite the shit hotel & dishwater Guiness!). We are both definitly up for it again! gcw | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.152.164 |
18th to 20th September, mate. I must admit that, although the content of the (much) earlier FCons I attended was better, last year's was the most enjoyable I've been to, simply 'cos of all the folk we already knew and those we met for the first time. Me an' Debs are definitely up for it as well (assuming I still have a job and can afford to go) and I'm going to email Steve Jones (or ask my mate Mike to ask him) to find out what his hotel was like; we REALLY don't want to stay at the Britannia again if we can avoid it. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.152.164 |
Looks like Stephen Gallagher is going to FCon 2009 as well... | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.151.125.7 |
Stephen Gallagher..? shit, I will embarrass myself by fawning I just know it! I know Soozy would prefer to stay in a different hotel...I'm easy, as I like to be where things are happening and I guess I have the 'if I drink enough I don't care where I sleep mentality'  Where do you get the info? - The Fantasy Society Site has gone all differenty n' I can't find it! gcw | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.152.164 |
I just Googled it - Pete Colborn had put the dates up on his blog. The BFS site is a bit weird at the moment... I'm torn between wanting to be where the 'action' is and wanting to stay in a nice hotel! As a bloke I'm also usually happy with "wherever I lay my hat" but the Britannia was really grim, and I think we lucked out by the sound of it as our room wasn't too bad. Relatively speaking. Guinness was 'orrible though, even though Debs had to take mine away to stop me drinking it! | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126 |
Emily and I will be there. For the whole weekend this time as I'm loathe to be ripped off again by the exhorbitant day rate. Be great to see you lot again. The BFS site is a bit weird at the moment... The BFS is a bit weird at the minute. I rejoined last year, after FCon and when Guy Adams took over as top dog, but have received nothing. No comfirmation. No newsletter. Nowt. Reminds me why I stopped being a member in the first place. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.152.164 |
I think you may need to do a bit of emailing, Zed - I've received BFS stuff since the con. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126 |
Just emailed Guy. I loathe having to chase things up.  | ||
| Simon Strantzas (Nomis) Username: Nomis Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 99.225.111.224 |
I'm not going to make it this time, gents. And lasses (sorry Ally and G Fry, for neglecting to include you). | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.0.112.152 |
That's OK, honey. Pull my udder, would you? Touch of cystitus. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.152.164 |
Hey Lynchy - are you and Michelle able to go to FCon? | ||
| Steve Bacon (Stevebacon) Username: Stevebacon Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.213.27.228 |
I think the credit crunch has bit too deep this year. I think I'll have to give 09 a miss... That, and the fact that Brighton 2010 is only a short time afterwards. And I really want to attend that. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.108.76 |
I'll be there. Staying at the same hotel so I don't have to go far to find my bed. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.152.164 |
You giving another reading this year, Ally? | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.157.92.146 |
Well that's us booked into FCon by post, and into a (hopefully better than the Britannia) hotel online. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.91.247 |
Don't think so Mick. Just want to chill - last year Sept/Oct was really busy with Fantasycon, four days later going to Hong Kong, four days after coming back doing a reading and panel at Necon4 and other stuff...would rather just chat to you, Debs and all. Mind you this is mid-winter Ally talking by Sept I'm bound to want to. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.157.92.146 |
We'll get a few Guinesses down your neck and you'll be fine! | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 160.6.1.47 |
The first Guinness brewery is 250 years old this year. Yowsers. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.91.247 |
Yeah - you are probably right Mick :>) | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.151.125.7 |
Hotel booked - just gotta book the 'Con gcw | ||
| Peter_coleborn (Peter_coleborn) Username: Peter_coleborn Registered: 07-2009 Posted From: 212.225.125.204 |
FantasyCon is pleased to announce that SEBASTIAN PEAKE will be attending the convention as our Special Guest, where he will speak about his father, MERVYN PEAKE, artist, poet and author of the magnificent Gormenghast trilogy. Sebastian is the eldest of Mervyn and Maeve Peake’s children. He has worked in the wine trade, has travelled widely, and became a leading modern jazz drummer, playing with several bands in London, Stockholm and Berlin. Sebastian speaks regularly at literary festivals, schools and universities both at home and abroad. He is the author of A Child of Bliss: Growing Up With Mervyn Peake, published in 1989, which was reissued in a companion volume with his mother's memoir, Mervyn Peake: Two Lives. Sebastian has published three collections of poetry and also writes about Mervyn and other things on his blog. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.177.118.49 |
That's excellent news, Pete - he, along with my hero Brian Clemens, should make it a very enjoyable and interesting weekend. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.86.67 |
Sounds cool! | ||
| Steve Bacon (Stevebacon) Username: Stevebacon Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.210.209.169 |
Right, I need to know who's got books coming out at Fcon. As I'm not going, I need to get some orders in beforehand to ensure I don't miss out. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
I'm already booked for FCon, and for the hotel next door. Peter - really pleased to hear about Seb Peake as a guest. I saw him a few years ago giving his illustrated talk about his father's life and work. It was superb! With Brian Clemens too, I'm really looking forward to this now. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.177.118.49 |
I'm already booked for FCon, and for the hotel next door. Ah! Another sensible person... | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
You shouldn't have asked, Steve! I'll be launching 2 1/3 books at Fantasycon. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.26.90.161 |
I'm booked in at the same hotel. I know it's a dump, but I'll be too pissed to observe. So, Ramsey, Creatures will be out there, will it? Yummy. Hope Pete has the slipcased edition with him. | ||
| Skunsworth (Skunsworth) Username: Skunsworth Registered: 05-2009 Posted From: 88.107.212.160 |
I'll definitely be there, as will wife Wendy for one of the days minimum. I'm hoping that Black Dogs and Lost Places will be available at FCon (in limited hardback and mass edition paperback). I'm hoping to get a reading slot as well, as I didn't last year and probably should have done... S | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
"Hope Pete has the slipcased edition with him..." If he has I'll be launching 2 7/18 books. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
>>"Hope Pete has the slipcased edition with him..." If he has I'll be launching 2 7/18 books.<< I see you're launching a new collection of shorts from PS there too, Ramsey. I'm looking forward to that (I'm more of a short story reader than a novel reader). Are they existing stories from elsewhere, or have you written some new ones specifically for this collection? | ||
| Peter_coleborn (Peter_coleborn) Username: Peter_coleborn Registered: 07-2009 Posted From: 62.56.124.135 |
I appreciate some of your comments ref. the hotel. But it is very, very difficult to find another hotel (maybe in another city) with the appropriate conference space at an affordable price. No doubt there are other better-spec venues -- but then costs, including registration fees, rise. Then the committee will get moans about that! In addition, each year's committee is time-limited. It is almost impossible to find alternative venues in <12 months. For example, the Britannia Hotel is already almost fully booked for September 2010. Ideally, a committee should be given two years in which to organise a FantasyCon. If you go to the FantasyCon website you'll find a list of attendees -- correct as of earlier this month. I hope to update it early August. You'll also see some info about book launches. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.26.90.161 |
I used to like that one in Walsall. Parking was great. Decent location. I'm don't really like city centre places. Then again, I'm invariably too drunk to care after about an hour. | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
Caroline, they're all reprinted stories except for the one in the slipcased edition, but you may very possibly not have read some of them. Here's the list (forgive my not bothering to delete the word counts): Fear the Dead (7901) Digging Deep (3585) Double Room (4964) The Place of Revelation (4837) The Winner (4996) One Copy Only (6335) Laid Down (1000) Unblinking (10374) Breaking Up (4660) Respects (5338) Feeling Remains (7701) Direct Line (6137) Skeleton Woods (7577) The Unbeheld (5879) The Announcement (4994) Dragged Down (6692) Raised by the Moon (5620) Just Behind You (7081) and in the slipcase Safe Words (9754) | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
And congratulations on Sebastian Peake, Peter! | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.26.90.161 |
Ramsey, is 'Direct Line' the elusive railway tale? | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
No, Gary, it's a mobile phone reference. "Passing Through Peacehaven" may be the one you have in mind - it'll be in an Al Sarrantonio anthology later this year. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
That collection sounds superb, Ramsey. There are quite a few there I already know well, but others I don't (well, it's impossible to find and read ALL your short stories). I think I'll be treating myself to the slipcased edition! | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.26.90.161 |
Ah yes, silly me: call myself a Campbellophile. Direct Line is the teacher tale. Nice companion piece to Dragged Down. (I've read both of course, several times. See, I'm redeeming myself now.) | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.26.90.161 |
>>>"Passing Through Peacehaven" may be the one you have in mind - it'll be in an Al Sarrantonio anthology later this year. That's one of your most ingenious pieces. Looking forward to the antho. |