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MCM Comic Con, Bristolcon, and the World Fantasy Convention

Juliet October 22, 2025 Leave a Comment

I have two busy weekends ahead!

On Saturday 25th October, I’m joining RJ Barker, Dan Coxon and Alex Pheby to discuss Dead Ink’s new non-fiction anthology of essays on Writing the Magic. Our panel is from 11am-11.45am at the Writers Block Stage, followed by a signing session from 11.45am-12.45am.

On Sunday 26th October, I’ll be at Bristolcon. After a reading at 12.50, I’ll join J A Mortimore, David Green, Jo M Thomas/Journeymouse, and Anna Smith Spark, to discuss Lost Cities and Legends at 1.00pm.

At 3.00pm, J E Hannaford, David Cartwright, Jonathan L. Howard, Carolyn Dougherty and I will consider possible solutions when Your planning application for a lair has been declined.

I’ll be arriving at the World Fantasy Convention in Brighton on Thursday 30th October. My schedule is as follows:

Friday, 3:00 pm-4:00 pm : Reading, with Ai Jiang and Christopher Caldwell

Friday, 7:00 pm-8:00 pm : Meet the Author: Juliet Mckenna. Sign up at the Registration Desk

Friday, 8:00 pm-10:00 pm : Mass Autograph Session. Feel free to say hello if you’re passing on your way to get something signed by another author

Saturday, 11:00 am-12:00 pm : Writing Fighting With Anna Smith Spark, Steve McHugh, Miles/Christian Cameron

Saturday, 3:00 pm-4:00 pm : Launch: Wizard’s Tower Press. Wizard’s Tower Press are launching my new novel, The Green Man’s Holiday, alongside Of the Emperor’s Kindness by Chaz Brenchley and Wiz Duo Book 3 by Ruthana Emrys & Andrew Knighton.

Saturday, 4:00 pm-5:00 pm : Launch: Dead Ink Books launch two new anthologies: Writing the Magic and Unquiet Guests.

I will also be attending the British Fantasy Awards and the Aldiss Award presentations, from 7.30pm on Saturday. The Green Man’s War is a finalist for the Best Fantasy Novel, and I have a story in Fight Like A Girl Volume 2, a finalist for Best Anthology.

Cover art by Ben Baldwin shows a creature crouching in a low tunnel entrance lined with grey stones and partly hidden by green undergrowth and white flowers. The creature has pale skin covered in sparse black hair and it looks a bit like an ape, a bit like a bear, and completely unlike either of those. — The Green Man’s Holiday
Artwork and layout by Ben Baldwin

The Green Man’s Holiday
Artwork and layout by Ben Baldwin

Author: Juliet

Juliet E McKenna is a British fantasy author living in the Cotswolds, UK. Loving history, myth and other worlds since she first learned to read, she has written fifteen epic fantasy novels so far. Her debut, The Thief’s Gamble, began The Tales of Einarinn in 1999, followed by The Aldabreshin Compass sequence, The Chronicles of the Lescari Revolution, and The Hadrumal Crisis trilogy. The Green Man’s Heir was her first modern fantasy inspired by British folklore in 2018. The Green Man’s Quarry in 2023, the sixth title to follow, won the BSFA Award for Best Novel. The Green Man’s Holiday continues this ongoing series in October 2025. Her 2023 novel The Cleaving is a female-centred retelling of the story of King Arthur, while her shorter stories include forays into dark fantasy, steampunk and science fiction. She promotes SF&Fantasy by reviewing, by blogging on book trade issues, attending conventions and teaching creative writing. She has served as a judge for the James White Award, the Aeon Award, the Arthur C Clarke Award and the World Fantasy Awards. In 2015 she received the British Fantasy Society’s Karl Edward Wagner Award. As J M Alvey, she has written historical murder mysteries set in ancient Greece.