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Birmingham Science Fiction Group

Founded in 1971, meeting monthly and still going strong, the B.S.F.G. is a non-profit-making organisation that provides an informal atmosphere in which SF fans can meet one another and professionals in the field. You can find out more about us elsewhere on this website, meanwhile here are some details of our next two meetings.

 

14th June 2013
Ian Drury

Freda Warrington
Ian Drury has worked in publishing for the last 20 years including time with HarperCollins and four years as Publishing Director with Weidenfeld & Nicolson. He is now an author's agent at Sheil Land Associates specialising in historical non-fiction, fiction and fantasy although has had success in other fields. He has sold Mark Lawrence's "Prince of Thorns" in sixteen languages and his best known projects include Mark Chadbourn's "The Sword of Albion" and Peter Higgins' "Wolfhound Century".He also represents Jaine Fenn.


PLACE: Briar Rose Hotel, Bennett's Hill

TIME: Doors open at 7.30 pm for an 8pm start.

Admission : £4 non-members, £3 members

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Next Meeting
12th July 2013
Richard Denning

Freda Warrington

Richard Denning writes :- "I have been on a journey of self-publishing books since around 2009 but especially so from 2011 onwards. During that turn I sold around 1400 books (so wont be retiring any time soon) and I have learnt a lot of painful lessons about how NOT to do things. But hopefully I also know a bit about HOW to publish books, how to get them edited, a good cover and then also about making e-books and audio books.  So this mainly is what I am going to talk about. Given the group interests in Sci-Fi and Fantasy I will also mention my role in UK Games Expo (a hobby game and roleplaying convention) for of course one area where a lot of scifi and fantasy writing goes on is Roleplaying games. I should add that although I own my own little publisher – Mercia Books which I do all this under – I am not looking for authors to take on. But my view is that you CAN do all this yourself so, if you want to find out my particular experience I hope to see you there."

PLACE: Briar Rose Hotel, Bennett's Hill

TIME: Doors open at 7.30 pm for an 8pm start.

Admission : £4 non-members, £3 members

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