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Fantasycon

Tim Lebbon — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 07:42:35 +0000

Here’s me and respected comics artist and writer Liam Sharp presenting the British Fantasy Award for Best Comic or Graphic Novel. A prize for those who can identify who’s who.

Fantasycon

Tim Lebbon — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:33:25 +0000

It’s just a little over two weeks until Fantasycon, and though I don’t yet know which panels I’ll be on, you should all come to this book launch and signing (I’m in Zombie Apocalypse! and the MBO Best of Best New Horror):

3:00-4:00pm, Saturday: “A MAMMOTH SIGNING” presented by Robinson Publishing: Come along and join editor STEPHEN JONES and numerous contributors for the launch of the new anthologies ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE! and THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF BEST NEW HORROR #21, plus THE BEST OF BEST NEW HORROR. Participating authors include RAMSEY CAMPBELL, PETER CROWTHER, PAUL FINCH, JO FLETCHER, TIM LEBBON, REGGIE OLIVER, ROSALIE PARKER, JOHN L. PROBERT, SARAH PINBOROUGH, NICHOLAS ROYLE, ROBERT SHEARMAN, MANDY SLATER, LISA TUTTLE, SIMON KURT UNSWORTH, MARK VALENTINE and STEPHEN VOLK, along with cover artist VINCENT CHONG. A Free Glass of Wine with every book purchased! (But come early, stocks are strictly limited.)

The laughter, the tears, and El Diablo Catering Services – Fantasycon 2009 Report

Tim Lebbon — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:30:24 +0000

Come and gone in a flash, Fantasycon 2009 will live with me for a long time. It was the usual mix of meeting old friends and chating as if you saw them last week, not last year … meeting and making new friends, and feeling as if you’ve known them for years (Hi Mark, Anna, Rio, Bill, Catherine, Gary U, Julian, John, and a dozen more) … chatting with people at the bar without even asking their name and getting their contact deails, and knowing it’ll be a year before you get to catch up again (the guy with the new fantasy book, the two young ladies who recently lost their mother) … drinking too much too soon and trying to battle on anyway … buying too many books, spending too much money, talking too much, sleeping too little, doing business drunk at 2 in the morning …

Ahhh, Fantasycon. And this was a great one.

I won a British Fantasy Award for Best Novella for THE REACH OF CHILDREN, which was absolutely wonderful. My fourth British Fantasy Award, if ever there was one I was shortlisted for that I wanted to win, it was this one. Anyone who’s read the novella will know why. Thanks to everyone who voted. And sorry for the couple of people I made cry with my speech (this time I think because it was a little moving and a little personal, not so crap like the one I made for DUSK two years ago). A major congrats to all the other winners, especially Sarah Pinborough, and Joseph D’Lacey for winning Best Newcomer. Though I still think it should have gone to Ramsey Campbell. You can see the list of winners here.

The banquet …… ahhh, that was fun. The last couple of years the food has increased dramatically in quality from toxic shite to barely-palatable-if-there’s-not-a-McDonald’s-around (and McDonald’s barely registers as foodstuff in my mind). This year it reached new levels of disgustingness that I’m not sure actually exist on our plane of existence. The soup was passable, but the main course was the devil’s shite. Ed Diablo Catering Services must have visited the building. At least I had great company on my table, and freeflowing wine, and little bottles full of bubbles. Most of us had a go inhaling helium from the balloons and talking in a funny voice, but when Sarah Pinborough tried she sounded just the same. Oh well.

I spent most of my time chatting, meeting people, doing a bit of business, chatting some more, drinking, eating, and chatting some more. I didn’t go to any panels (apart from the midnight panel I was on with Mark Morris, Nick Royle, Conrad Williams, Steve Volk and Simon R Green … but probably the less said about that the better), but I did thoroughly enjoy John Lenahan‘s stand-up/magic show after the awards. A very funny guy, great company (we had a good chat at the bar before and after the awards), and also the author of new novel Shadowmagic.

Right … it’s time to get back to work. Fantasycon is fading into the past quickly, as it always does. But there’s always next year.

Best New Horror – launch at Fantasycon

Tim Lebbon — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:45:37 +0000

I’m in the Mammoth Book of Best New Horror again this year (hoorah!) and there’s going to be the traditional Fantasycon launch on Saturday 19th September, at 3:00pm in the main bar. Free glass of wine to anyone who buys a copy!

Attending the signing will be the editor Stephen Jones, along with Ramsey Campbell, Pete Crowther, Paul Finch, Gary McMahon, Reggie Oliver, Sarah Pinborough, and me. Also, utterly talented cover artist Vinnie Chong.

Fantasycon … you know you want to.

Fantasycon 2009

Tim Lebbon — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 21:16:05 +0000

Fantasycon have announced their Guests of Honour for this year’s convention. A great line-up, eclectic and interesting. Fantasycon is one of my favourite convenions, and I never miss it, even if I have to sell a limb to get there. I still have four … but who knows what the future may hold.

You know what I don’t see much at Fantasycon? Americans. I’ve spent years travelling over the water to US conventions (as have Mark Morris, Sarah Pinborough, Graham Joyce, Stephen Volk, Mark Samuels, Simon Clark, Gary Greenwood, Stuart Young, Stephen Jones etc etc etc). I reckon I’ve been to about a dozen. About time some of you buggers came over here!