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Milford at Fifty: Milford One -1972 and Beyond – A Retrospective by David Redd

Posted on 17 May 2022 by Jacey Bedford

From David Redd’s Milford retrospective (website) and comments from his 2019 interview in SF Magazines. Milford 1972 attendeesMark Adlard * Brian Aldiss * James Blish * John Brunner * Kenneth Bulmer * Richard Cowper * Judith Anne Lawrence (Judy Blish) … Continue reading →

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Milford at Fifty by David Gullen

Posted on 3 May 2022 by Jacey Bedford

Like many people I came to my first Milford with feelings of excitement and fear. I was not disappointed. My novel opening, which I had worked on so hard, was critiqued with attention to detail and the eye of experience. … Continue reading →

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War! What Is It Good For? Remix 2022 – by Juliet E McKenna

Posted on 15 March 2022 by Jacey Bedford

Like many other authors, I have been thinking what a hard time a writer would have with an editor, if they presented a fictional character to equal the very real Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine, voice of Paddington Bear, … Continue reading →

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Wyldblood Press by Mark Bilsborough

Posted on 8 March 2022 by Jacey Bedford

So I’m eighteen months in to my foolish and time-sucking venture, Wyldblood Press, and I’m still sane (or at least as sane as I was before). During that time we’ve published 58 stories in seven issue of Wyldblood Magazine, 82 … Continue reading →

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Style Sheets by Jacey Bedford

Posted on 1 March 2022 by Jacey Bedford

Posted onOctober 6, 2020 byJacey Bedford Originally posted on February 7, 2017 by Jacey Bedford There’s a lot of information to keep in your head if you’re writing a book. There’s even more if you’re writing a trilogy or a … Continue reading →

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To Map or Not To Map by Jacey Bedford

Posted on 22 February 2022 by Jacey Bedford

I’ve never yet had a map in any of my books, though I came close with The Amber Crown. Does it need a map? To be honest I didn’t think to ask the question until fairly late in the publishing … Continue reading →

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Choices, Choices, Choices: The Growing World of Interactive Fiction by Trip Galey

Posted on 1 February 2022 by Jacey Bedford

Interactive stories—tales in which the reader makes choices and influences the direction the plot advances—are enjoying a bit of a renaissance at present. The Choose Your Own Adventure book series is reprinting old classics and adding new titles to its … Continue reading →

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Emerald to Ice: Adventuring in Ecological Science Fiction by Matt Colborn

Posted on 18 January 2022 by Jacey Bedford

There’s a sequence in David Attenborough’s insect series, Life in the Undergrowth, when he describes the annual life cycle of the bumble bee. The story of the queen bee founding her nest after hibernation, raising a whole society, producing new … Continue reading →

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Happy Book Birthday to Me! – by Jacey Bedford

Posted on 11 January 2022 by Jacey Bedford

My new book, The Amber Crown is released into the wild today, published by DAW, and available on both sides of the Atlantic as a trade paperback (large format) and also as an electronic book (Kindle, E-book etc.). I’m delighted … Continue reading →

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5) Beginnings, or How to Get People’s Attention by Colin Brush

Posted on 30 November 2021 by Jacey Bedford

‘It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen.’ Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell We’re just over the halfway point in my guide to writing blurbs and you’re probably wondering when we’re going to get around … Continue reading →

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