Simon Bestwick

The shortlists for the British Fantasy Awards were announced on Tuesday, and I'm stunned to have made the running for not one, but two...

Laura Mauro. Photograph by Michael Kelly. So there goes another Fantasycon. Another brilliant event, another brilliant year. Belonging...

Last year's FCon, with Priya Sharma, Lynda E. Rucker and Sean Hogan/ My Fantasycon 2018 Schedule: I'm a little on the busy side...

Conducting myself appropriately at the Alchemy Press launch.  ...was an absolute blast. I always love Fantasycon, but this was a crack...

Tomorrow, the dread trio that is Bestwick, Gardner and Priya Sharma will be setting off again, like the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. (...

Fantasycon By The Sea is nearly upon us! From the 23rd to the 25th of September, the (hopefully) sunny seaside town of Scarborough plays h...

Bits and pieces of stuff this week. Work on Devil's Highway grinds steadily on, gathering momentum. Fingers crossed, I might just pul...

Things of the Week, as I said a little while back, has started to become almost a regular feature here. Of course, that only works when y...

Hello again! So, what's new? Well, my contributor copy of The Hyde Hotel arrived - edited by James Everington and Dan Howarth, it f...

So, Fantasycon 2015 is almost upon us, out in the wilds of Nottingham. And my schedule is as follows... Friday 23rd October 5.00pm Chil...

Gardner Goldsmith of Liberty Conspiracy interviewed me for his podcast back at Fantasycon in Brighton, earlier this month. Here's that...

Be warned: this will be a huge blog post. Once I started, I honestly didn't know where to stop... So ensure you have a stiff one to h...

Tomorrow I shall be setting off for the distant land of Brighton. Fantasycon doesn't actually start till Friday, but given the Con is a...

Just over a week now to Fantasycon 2011 down in Brighton, which will be cool- a chance to meet up with various writing friends and quite pro...

Every year I mean to blog about the fun I've had at Fantasycon, and every year I fail to. But not this time! No, this year, finally, t...

Today's the day! I shall be arriving in Nottingham this afternoon, despite the combined efforts of the payroll department and a certain...

If you're attending Fantasycon this year, and you want to know what to attend/avoid, here's my itinerary... Friday night (17th Septe...

Well, there's now another place on the web for me to pour my egomania... I've been invited to start a chat thread about myself on th...