Fantasycon By The Sea, 23-25 Sept, 2016

[chopper]

Obviously I have a deeply personal interest in this event again - but hey folks, who's coming along?

 

[crystal haven]

Me!

 

[chopper]

yay!

 

[Susan Boulton]

Obviously I have a deeply personal interest in this event again - but hey folks, who's coming along?

And me, fingers crossed "hint". If all goes to plan.....

And yes, will be there from the Thursday. Kathy joining me on the Friday

 

[crystal haven]

It's getting very close now. Anyone else going?

 

[nixie]

Wish I could,

 

[crystal haven]

Aww, hugs, Nixie. We will have to meet up in York again, sometime, or go to Scarborough for a day out.

 

[russ2]

I've always wanted to go, but I'm so shy and think I'd be alone all weekend.

 

[Boneman]

Can't make this one, but I hope it goes fantastically well.

 

[crystal haven]

I've always wanted to go, but I'm so shy and think I'd be alone all weekend.

I've found being on the Chrons forum is a good way to make friends. It takes time, especially when shy, but it gets easier. I have made some great friends through the Chrons.

 

[chopper]

That was a good con. And for anyone who didn''t see the awards news, here's the list of winners from the official BFS site. I expected not to win, but Zen Cho is definitely right for the award. And now she has an Heir to the North badge too

Best anthology: The Doll Collection, ed. Ellen Datlow (Tor Books)

Best artist: Julie Dillon

Best collection: Ghost Summer: Stories, Tananarive Due (Prime Books)

Best comic/graphic novel: Bitch Planet, Kelly Sue DeConnick, Valentine De Landro, Robert Wilson IV and Cris Peter (Image Comics) (#2–5)

Best fantasy novel (the Robert Holdstock Award): Uprooted, Naomi Novik (Macmillan)

Best film/television production: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Peter Harness (BBC One)

Best horror novel (the August Derleth Award): Rawblood, Catriona Ward (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)

Best independent press: Angry Robot (Marc Gascoigne)

Best magazine/periodical: Beneath Ceaseless Skies, ed. Scott H. Andrews (Firkin Press)

Best newcomer (the Sydney J. Bounds Award): Zen Cho, for Sorcerer to the Crown (Macmillan)

Best non-fiction: Letters to Tiptree, ed. Alexandra Pierce and Alisa Krasnostein (Twelfth Planet Press)

Best novella: The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn, Usman T. Malik (Tor.com)

Best short fiction: Fabulous Beasts, Priya Sharma (Tor.com)

The Special Award (the Karl Edward Wagner Award): The FantasyCon redshirts, past and present