Suzanne Mcleod has been a cocktail waitress, dance group promoter and barmaid at Coventry City Football Club (the last despite having no love for the beautiful game; she had to pay the rent somehow!) After years in retail management, she started writing the SPELLCRACKERS.COM series. She lives with her husband and rescue dogs in Bournemouth.
Eastercon! The Gollancz Gang is going to be hanging out, attending panels, in the bar, running a book stand and more at the Edwardian Raddison, Heathrow, throughout Easter . . . so here’s our quick guide to all the Eastercon action:
Friday 6th April 2012
14.00 Pushing the Boundaries of Genre
What are the boundaries of genre? Where does one begin and another end? Does definition limit imagination, or give it something to feed on. Come along, for all this and more … More
Tags: EasterCon, Events, Fantasy, Science Fiction
Posted in Dark Fantasy, Elspeth Cooper, Events, Fantasy, Gavin G. Smith, Jaine Fenn, James Barclay, Joe Abercrombie, Justina Robson, Michael J. Ward, Paul McAuley, Robert V.S. Redick, Sarah Pinborough, Science Fiction, Social Networking, Suzanne McLeod | No Comments »
So you’re at the SFX Weekender this weekend in Prestatyn, and while, looking at your schedule you realise there is literally so much going on, you don’t know where to start? Well handily, we have highlighted below exactly where and when you can see and meet all the Gollancz authors talking and signing over the weekend. See, aren’t we good to you? All you have to do is turn up and enjoy!
Friday
12noon – Sunday Times bestselling Rivers of London author … More
Tags: Ben Aaronovitch, Events, Jaine Fenn, James Barclay, Joe Abercrombie, Robert Rankin, Sam Sykes, Sarah Pinborough, SFX Weekender, Sophia McDougal, Stephen Baxter, Suzanne McLeod
Posted in Alastair Reynolds, Ben Aaronovitch, Events, Jaine Fenn, James Barclay, Joe Abercrombie, Paul McAuley, Sam Sykes, Sarah Pinborough, Stephen Baxter, Suzanne McLeod | No Comments »
Yesterday we looked at three great debuts and three familiar faces with new projects in the genre – today we’re celebrating six fantastic genre novels which are all part of brilliant series (if you’ve missed them: where have you been?!) coming to a bookshelf near you!*
Trinity Moon, by Elspeth Cooper.
This brilliant series kicked off with Songs of the Earth – one of the greatest debuts Gollancz has ever published – and introduced Gair, one of … More
Tags: Bitterblue, Christmas, Crown of Embers, Dark Fantasy, Elspeth Cooper, Fantasy, Fire, Fire and Thorns, Graceling, Jaine Fenn, Kristin Cashore, Queen of Nowhere, Rae Carson, Sarah Pinborough, Science Fiction, Songs of the Earth, Spellercrackers.com series, Suzanne McLeod, The Chosen Seed, The Dog Faced Gods trilogy, The Shifting Price of Prey, Trinity Moon
Posted in Dark Fantasy, Editorial Posts, Elspeth Cooper, Fantasy, Horror, Jaine Fenn, Kristin Cashore, News, Rae Carson, Sarah Pinborough, Science Fiction, Seasonal Posts, Suzanne McLeod | 2 Comments »
To celebrate the publication of The Bitter Seed of Magic we’ve got an exclusive blog piece from the fabulous Suzanne McLeod all about twisting myths in her Spellcrackers.com series.
Suzanne writes:
When it comes to supernatural creatures, I like to have my cake and eat it In my Spellcrackers books I wanted to write about vampires, and faeries, and witches, and goblins, and trolls, and all those other creatures … More
Tags: Author Post, Dark Fantasy, Spellercrackers.com series, Suzanne McLeod, The Bitter Seed of Magic
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