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Frantic Fun at FantasyCon and BristolCon!

Frantic Fun at FantasyCon and BristolCon!

The last two weeks have been a manic blur of fun, meeting friends, train frustration, award nominees, artwork, dizzyness and desperately trying to get something to dry! 😀

This year I was humbled and honoured to be shortlisted as Best Artist in the 2018 British Fantasy Awards, held on the last day of FantasyConin what is always a fun awards ceremony. This year it was held in Chester, a town…

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The Realities of Running a Small Press

The Realities of Running a Small Press

Fox Spirit Books’ publisher Adele Wearing speaks frankly about the realities of running a small press: “If you want to help, if you want to keep your favourite presses open, if you want those unusual little projects to be published… the simple truth is they need more sales. You don’t have to buy all the books yourself – there are other ways you can help. Tell people about them! Review the books!…

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Book Launch Extravaganza! Fight Like A Girl kicks ass...literally!

Book Launch Extravaganza! Fight Like A Girl kicks ass…literally!

As I type this my head is still reeling from the awesome Fight Like A Girl events of yesterday. (Apologies now, the word ‘awesome’ will be overused and abused in this post!) For any of you who have been to a book launch or are even trying to organise one yourself, take note – THIS is how it should be done!

The ingredients for a perfect kick-ass book launch:

An awesome book to launch – a…

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If you like: fantasy * monsters * badass girls The Girl at the End of the World: Book 2 is the second part of a collection of stories about kickass girls doing what they need to do to survive. These women know how to fight for themselves. They are focused on taking care of business and surviving, with or without the others around them. In many of the stories, we see an end, or a means to an end, of patriarchy. They respect themselves and have no intention of being used as a vessel. They love their companions, but they also know what it takes to get things done. In this second half, the stories feel darker, the worlds a bit harsher. The choices that the women must make seem harder, and the threats greater.

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If you like: fantasy * post-apocalyptic * the unexpected   The Girl at the End of the World is an collection of short stories featuring strong female characters encountering world changing events. With each new story comes a new leading lady, and a change of pace. For each, the end of the world means something different. For some it is a true apocalyptic scenario. For others, it is the end of life as they have always known it. Each must fight in her own way to go on, and face whatever obstacle she has found.

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WARRIOR STONE: UNDERLAND

The Book

Warrior Stone by RB Harkess Genre: YA Urban Fantasy

About Warrior Stone:

Underland is a twisted copy of The Real that uses industrialised magic to power a weird mix of stolen technology. It’s just enough like The Real to make travelers over-confident and get them into trouble. Which is just what happened when Claire Stone accidentally falls through rushing home one night. Claire is offered a job as a Warrior, hunting down and destroying shape shifting monsters.What adventure-hungry lover of fantasy could refuse? Everything seems great, until a friend goes missing and the Warrior has to turn Hunter.

Source: Info in the About Warrior Stone was from the press kit from the publicity team. Buy Link(s):

Meet The Author

About RB Harkess:

I was born in Bristol but now I live just outside London. I studied a mad mixture of subjects at the Open University which had nothing to do with my career in I.T. Having only ‘started writing seriously again’ in 2009, I found an idea that would not work until I wrote it for a younger audience, and now I'm addicted to the genre. Also, I like to look at ways of getting my stories out to people in as many media as I can beside the conventional 'dead tree' method

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