Yesterday’s main task (other than watching the Grand Prix) was editing the audio from the May BristolCon Fringe event. Once again I need to apologize about the quality. With the level of background noise we have, and the poor quality equipment, there’s not a lot I can do.

However, I don’t need to apologize for the readers who were, as usual, highly entertaining.

First up we have Justin Newland, who provided us with three very different short pieces. The first is a fantasy story about desert tribesmen; the second a historical piece about Sir Walter Raleigh, and the third an extract from a novel about Atlantis. The latter is from the first volume of the trilogy, The Genes of Isis, that Justin is writing.

The other reader for May was Cavan Scott. Although most of his work is comics and scripts for franchises, he chose to read us some of his own creations. I’m delighted he did. First up we have an extract from a superhero novel that he is writing. It is set in Bristol and there was considerable excitement about the destruction of the Cabot Circus shopping center. You may recall that Tim Maughan chose the same setting for the climax of his story, “Flight Path Estate”, from Adventure Rocketship. The second story was an extract from a book Cavan is writing as part of a series of short novels aimed at teenage boys who don’t like to read.

I note that the superhero novel is, as yet, unsold. If there are any agents or editors out there who are looking for this sort of thing, I recommend you listen in. Cavan is very good.

Finally we have our traditional Q&A, which is essentially me babling fangirly questions about superheroes. Jo, Roz and Pete manage to bring some order to proceedings by asking intelligent questions about writing.

I do have audio from last week’s Word of Mouth event, but I haven’t had a chance to look at that yet. Next off the rank will be some of the Karen Lord material from Ã…con. I’ve got the interview done, but in doing it I realized that I needed to publish the Post-Colonial SF panel first. And I have the Folklore & SF panel, and the panel game, lined up. Oh, and I still need to write a con report. Back to the grindstone.