This year’s Bristol Festival of Literature will take place in October. BristolCon is not part of it this year due to having our date gazumped by FantasyCon and having to move to September. However, there will be a Fringe event during the Festival and that will be rather special as it will feature new books from Joanne Hall and Jonathan L. Howard. There will also be something featuring me, but don’t panic because it will also have Mike Carey, Paul Cornell and Cavan Scott and be about comics.

Why am I telling you all this now? Because we need money. Not a lot, but some of the venues have hire costs and we want to pay for some decent publicity materials so we can get the word out effectively. So there is a fundraiser running on Bristol’s own crowdfunding platform, Fundsurfer. Basically this is an opportunity to buy tickets in advance, and to give us a little love. Please note that both the Fringe and comics events will be free, but there’s lot of other really good stuff happening too. And if you can’t get to Bristol, a quid or two to help us spread the good word would be much appreciated. Thank you.