There is good news and bad news. The bad news is that I will not be at Bristolcon this weekend. I’m currently recovering from covid and said recovery is going annoyingly slowly, so with considerable regret I’ve decided to rest up for this weekend, in preparation for ArmadaCon next weekend. The good news is that the […]
After a year in which I’ve not made it to any SF conventions (not even Worldcon, alas), at the end of this month I have two in a row: Bristolcon in, uh, Bristol, which is now a two-day convention and Armadacon, in Plymouth, who have been kind enough to invite me along as a Guest […]
This week saw the release of the Best of British SF 2023, which includes ‘Muse Automatique’, my angsty high-concept not-really-a-romp inspired by the life of Galina Dali. The lovely Donna Scott of Newcon Press expertly hosted a virtual launch party, featuring several of contributors from the book’s truly impressive list. For reasons explained during the […]
We’re halfway through the year, and I’ve found 2024 to be a mixture highs and lows, with perhaps more of the latter. I’ve written many words but as most were for a video-game that won’t come out, they will remain unseen. The world is a still a shitshow, with humans still screwing each other over […]
Although I’ve not had a productive year for new fiction, I have enjoyed two notable achievements over the last 12 months: the publication of my collection Strange Attractors and getting a story in the Best of British SF 2023. I was delighted when Strange Attractors was shortlisted for a BSFA award (the award actually went […]
I was delighted to discover that Strange Attractors has made the British Science Fiction Awards shortlist in the ‘Best Collection’ category. I’m in some very find company on the various shortlists – ‘Best Novel’ will be particularly interesting. I also note that The Book of Gaheris has made the shortlist in the ‘Shorter Fiction’ category, […]
I like Arthurian stories, provided they don’t take liberties. Of course, my definition of ‘liberties’ is subjective, not least because my interest comes from reading a lot of them in my adolescence, and concluding then that I much preferred Mary Stewart to T H White. No idea if that’s still true of course… This book […]
I finally got my act together to join Threads – I’m @jainefenn there, or you can just click on the shiny new button under my picture on the right. As I write this I’ve only got a handful of followers and have yet to start a new thread – or whatever the jargon is – […]
Having let this blog languish for a while, 2023 was the year when I went back to posting semi-regularly. This stemmed in part from the realisation, shared with many others, that within the toxic stew that ferments across the internet, a personal website is a space you own, to do with as you want. Hopefully […]
If you fancy some short, engaging and visually rather lovely holiday viewing, Philip Reeve’s short film Gwenevere is out on general release today. Readers may, or may not, remember how I made the costumes for this film.