Issue 14 of the Lovecraft Ezine is now online. This is a special issue with the emphasis on women’s Lovecraftian fiction and artwork, and female characters in Lovecraft-inspired tales. Contents are: A Beer and Tentacles by Holliann Kim Now She Preys Through Endless Days by Jenna M. Pitman Fiesta of Our Lady by Ann K.

A new novel by Terry Grimwood, Axe, is now available from Blood Moon Press in paperback and ebook formats. About the book: “Middle-aged teenager and rough diamond, Steve Turner, plays part-time rock and roll and dreams of the success that he knows has passed him by. Until a scrap of yellowing paper covered in handwritten

Solaris has acquired world English mass market rights to Lavie Tidhar’s highly-praised and BSFA Award-nominated novel Osama. Lauded as one of the most significant genre books of the year, the mass market version of Osama will be released in October 2012. The most exciting, daring and sensitive fictional engagement with the post-9/11 era, Osama is

Bloomsbury has pre-empted world English rights in The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon in a major three book deal and will publish the first of the seven book series in print and ebook globally on 12 September 2013, after the author graduates from Oxford University. Bloomsbury Editor-in-chief Alexandra Pringle moved to acquire the series from

SFScope announces the death of horror author Michael Louis Calvillo on 30 April 2012 following his battle with cancer. He was 37. A Bram Stoker finalist twice, with his 2007 novel I Will Rise and this year with his novella 7 Brains, his other books include Death & Desires in the Age of Women, Blood

SFScope reports that a number of Octavia E. Butler‘s acclaimed and award-winning SF novels will be published in electronic format for the first time by Open Road Integrated Media. These include the Nebula Award-winning Parable of the Talents and the Xenogenesis trilogy. Butler, who died in 2006, was the first African-American woman to come to

Dadaoism, the first anthology from Chomu Press, is now available. From the website: “Editors Justin Isis and Quentin S. Crisp have selected twenty-six novellas, short stories and poems setting out an aesthetic manifesto of rich and stimulating prose style, explosively unhindered imagination and anarchic experimentation.” As we have come to expect from Chomu, this is

Screaming Dreams has started to release Kindle editions of some of its books. Not all of the existing print titles will be released for Kindle through Screaming Dreams because of contracts some authors have signed with other publishers. But, whenever possible, Screaming Dreams will now release both print and Kindle versions of past and future

The most recent BFS London Open Night saw the launch of Where Are We Going? from Eibonvale Press, edited by Allen Ashley. The publisher ran a “Write a Postcard” competition which was judged on the night by Allen Ashley. The winners were: Martin Roberts, Tina Rath and John Forth, and each won an Eibonvale prize.

The BFS committee is pleased to announce that Neil Ford has joined as Webmaster for the society. Neil has over

Following announcement of the shortlist for the 2012 British Fantasy Awards, the long lists from which the shortlisted works/candidates were

BFS members should have received their email detailing how to download their digital copy of the Spring BFS Journal. From

Following announcement of the shortlist for the 2012 British Fantasy Awards, the long lists from which the shortlisted works/candidates were

The Horror Writers Association has announced BFS President Ramsey Campbell as their first Guest of Honour for the Bram Stoker

The finalists have been announced for the 2012 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best SF novel. They are: Ready