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Ask the Authors and Artists! / Re: D F Lewis

« on: June 26, 2018, 07:14:46 am »

My book reviews so far in 2018:
https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/14309-2/

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Ask the Authors and Artists! / Re: D F Lewis

« on: March 03, 2017, 05:10:08 pm »

My real-time reviews of your books for 2016 and so far in 2017 -
https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2017/03/03/3041/

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British Fantasy Awards / Re: AGM 2015 proposal re returning to voting for the winners

« on: May 20, 2016, 09:41:41 am »

I decided in the end to withdraw my proposal. No one supports it (except maybe Des!) and I didn't want it to still be hanging around all these months later like a bad smell. I've split this discussion out of the AGM 2016 and awards proposals thread to avoid any confusion later in the year.

It is just that I consider Stephen to be uniquely placed within the actual DNA of the current BFS Awards System in recent years, and anything he proposed should have been taken very seriously.

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Ask the Authors and Artists! / Re: D F Lewis

« on: March 04, 2016, 08:15:34 am »

A book collection, 'Dabbling With Diabelli',  of my own favourites among the 1000 plus short fictions published in print mainly in the 1990s under my name, but now substantially revised. Fully typeset with a contents list.

http://www.lulu.com/shop/d-f-lewis/dabbling-with-diabelli/paperback/product-21283151.html;jsessionid=27CE8C5C6B60D1E90D6B30BCADC748A8

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Ask the Authors and Artists! / Re: D F Lewis

« on: February 24, 2016, 07:27:01 pm »

Just to keep you up to date, here are the links to all my 2016 real-time reviews:
https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/6161-2/

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Ask the Authors and Artists! / Re: D F Lewis

« on: February 10, 2016, 08:22:09 pm »

I have been involved in reviewing 'The Lie Tree' by Frances Hardinge in the last few days -
https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2016/02/01/the-lie-tree-frances-hardinge/

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Ask the Authors and Artists! / Re: D F Lewis

« on: January 29, 2016, 03:55:05 pm »

a new design for the 'Dreamcatcher Reviews' site'
See them all here: www.nemonymous.com

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Ask the Authors and Artists! / Re: D F Lewis

« on: January 22, 2016, 08:38:25 am »

Still January, and my 2016 real-time reviews already listed here: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/6161-2/

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Ask the Authors and Artists! / Re: D F Lewis

« on: January 03, 2016, 08:48:25 am »

All my real-time reviews linked for 2015:
https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2015-reviews-to-date/

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BFS Publications / Re: BFS Horizons #1

« on: October 15, 2015, 12:35:13 pm »

... the front cover is embarrassing. What is it meant to be – Mills and Boon in Space? The guy’s photoshopped pert arse is laughable. The simple question one needs to ask is: would this make you want to pick it up on a display table or in a bookshop? [...]
Sorry to moan but for our flagship fiction and poetry publication we need to do better and be more appropriate.

I am usually a fan of Howard Watts covers, but I have to agree with Allen in what he says above about  this cover.

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British Fantasy Awards / Re: AGM 2015 and awards proposals

« on: September 19, 2015, 08:10:08 am »

Our juries have done a terrific job these last few years of picking a series of highly creditable winners,

I agree.

but the system takes a great deal of work to maintain, there’s a limited pool of volunteers to draw on, and, more and more, everyone seems to know each other, making it quite difficult to find truly independent jurors. So I've been mulling over a proposal to take us back to member voting in the final round, but keeping an egregious omissions committee, and adding an statutory two-month gap between the date nominations are announced and the date voting begins, to encourage everyone to read the nominees. What would members think about that?

I would personally support such a proposal.

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General Discussion / Re: New Fiction Market

« on: August 31, 2015, 11:01:51 am »

I know nothing about this new fiction market paying $100 per story other than what it says here:
http://writingcareer.com/post/127941980816/orthogonal-anthology-is-seeking-high-quality

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BFS Publications / Re: BFS Horizons #1

« on: August 28, 2015, 08:02:58 am »

I don't think it is always logical about whether to renumber and/or rename a publication by those who are making decisions about its ethos and audience. It is more an emotional or artistic decision, I feel.

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BFS Publications / Re: BFS Horizons #1

« on: August 26, 2015, 09:41:19 pm »

BFS Horizons #63 ?
I think that might give some hinterland of proud history for the Society and its fiction publication.

The Manchester Guardian changed its name to The Guardian in 1959 and maintained its numbering:
http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/Guardian/documents/2011/09/08/GuardianMGfps.pdf

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BFS Publications / Re: BFS Horizons #1

« on: August 26, 2015, 09:22:24 pm »

BFS Horizons #63 ?
I think that might give some hinterland of proud history for the Society and its fiction publication.