I have a very busy convention schedule coming up. FantasyCon is now just a week away, and a week after that there’s BristolCon. You may remember me saying that I rather liked the facilities at our hotel. It can’t support a huge con, but for a small UK regional I think it has a lot of promise. There are two main function rooms (only one of which we are using), and two fairly spacious social areas, one of which is set up to have a small private bar. There’s also a “break room” set up for coffee and snack services that we may be using for Colin Harvey’s book launch (yay Angry Robot!), and a bunch of small meeting rooms that could be used for microprogramming. I have some pictures from our site visit below.

Just as a reminder, BristolCon is on Saturday Sept 26th, in the afternoon. We have Al Reynolds, Charles Butler, Juliet McKenna, Colin Harvey, Eugene Byrne, Andy Bigwood, Gareth Powell and a host of promising young (and not so young) writers. If you are into Joss Whedon there’s a Serenity & Dr. Horrible screening on the Friday night and a Browncoat Ceilidh on Saturday night. The hotel is very near Temple Meads so the convention is an easy day trip from anywhere with a decent train service into Bristol (London, Birmingham, Cardiff, Reading, Oxford, Swindon, Exeter…)

And finally, in answer to the question you have all been waiting to ask: bottles of Bath Ale have been seen in the hotel bar.

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