British Fantasy Society

But it's subjective.

And, you know, British Fantasy Society has a different, slightly different set of numbering and everyone comes up with their own.

I was going to say,

yeah, this is it.

The Times ran a piece recognising her as the first agent to represent the number one, two and three UK bestsellers in the same week.

Julia is currently the president of the British Fantasy Society and sits on the board of the Women's Prize.

And so today, Mashna Zidzomen is, I mean, it's renowned, like as you were featured in the paper very recently about being one of the most influential agents around.

What is the ethos of your agency? Do you want writers to know that you believe in

welcome to long story short the podcast of the british fantasy society we're delighted to welcome the bram stoker award-winning author of queen of teeth a game in yellow a light most hateful the worm and his king series and many other books of dark fiction and also over 120 short stories appearing in weird tales pseudopod New York Times bestselling anthology, The End of the World as We Know It, and many other publications.

Her nonfiction appears in Writer's Digest, Library Journal, Crime Reads, and elsewhere.

Hailey Piper, welcome to the podcast.

How are you?

I'm very well, thank you.

Also joining us on the podcast today, because David Green has been elevated to become the chair of the British Fantasy Society, which I think means that we all take turns to sit on him.

I think that's what that means.

I'm excited to be joined to co-host the podcast today by Lorne McMenemy, BFS online editor.

Yes, indeed.

In terms of the sort of publications and communication strategy, there's no Discord because there's a British Fantasy Society Discord, but I think the British Fantasy Society Discord is for members of the British Fantasy Society.

Which is very sensible, but it does mean if you're not a member of the British Fantasy Society, there's not really a place to talk about FantasyCon other than Blue Sky.

And I found that interesting because it's been a while since I went to an EasterCon that didn't have a Discord and FantasyCon is a similar size.

So that is a point of difference.

You see, we don't know anything about how FantasyCon works, and I don't know if we're going to ever find out.

Read us right in.

I think it's run by the British Fantasy Society, so I assume they know.

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