The UK convention calendar is filling up nicely. Here are a couple of newcomers for early next year.

The Cardiff International Comics Expo (Feb. 26) is run by Mike Allwood’s Fantasy Events UK, the same people who run the Bristol event. Being in Cardiff, it will naturally have a Doctor Who focus. I’ll see Mike at BristolCon on Saturday and will find out more about it then, but I expect to be there.

ConJour (Mar. 12) is a new science fiction & fantasy convention in Leeds. Guests will include Mike Carey, Kate Griffin, Mark Charan Newton, Freda Warrington, Justina Robson & Adrian Tchaikovsky. Looking at the web site, it appears to be being run as a for-profit event along the lines of a comic convention rather than a traditional fan convention, which worries me a little because people who start out trying to make a profit from conventions are often disappointed and give up, but hopefully it will be OK.