As a proud participant in the up-coming FantasyCon — held in Britannia Hotel, Nottingham, UK, and held by the British Fantasy Society — Humdrumming is ecstatic to announce details of their specially dedicated event on the first evening! Huzzah! The event is described as follows:

Humdrumming Announcement Event / Knees-Up (cash bar)
on the evening of Friday, September 19^th, 2008 at 7:30 pm

Due to the absence of the Colonial who is Humdrumming’s Acting C.E.O, recently retired C.E.O. Guy Adams [see right for face image] will present an amazing and inspirational list of titles that Humdrumming will be publishing before next year’s FantasyCon. Surprises galore and names you’d never expect to hear! Horror, Fantasy, SF, all genres included; even funny things! Be the first to know what wonders are in store! You’ll gasp! You’ll weep! You’ll beg for mercy!

Witness Tim Lebbon’s novella The Reach of Children being waved in the air for the first time! See the glories that are the dual art editions of Gary M^cMahon’s Rain Dogs and Peter Crowther’s The Land at the End of the Working Day!

Also included is a huge orgy of signings of Humdrumming Books:

• The Second Humdrumming Book of Horror Stories, many names, including a Guest of Honour! All completing the signing of the Hardcover Edition of the book available in an affordable and very limited quantity!
• Beneath the Surface, by Simon Strantzas (imported from the wilds of Toronto especially for your delectation!)
• Many other titles as well!

Oiled dancers will move among the crowds, jugglers and trampolines, the lame shall walk, the blind shall see, the closed minds shall be open and love will be passed among all! Let the doves be set FREE!

• rating: 18+ due to language used by the presenter

The British Fantasy Society’s FantasyCon continues (if it’s able to after this event) until the mid-afternoon of Sunday the 21^st.

More information here :
OFFICIAL HUMDRUMMING SITE: www.humdrumming.co.uk
OFFICIAL FantasyCon SITE: www.fantasycon.org.uk
OFFICIAL BRITISH FANTASY SOCIETY SITE: www.britishfantasysociety.org
OFFICIAL SIMON STRANTZAS SITE: www.strantzas.com
OFFICIAL TIM LEBBON SITE: www.timlebbon.net
OFFICIAL GARY M^cMAHON SITE: www.garymcmahon.com
OFFICIAL GUY ADAMS BLOG: lizardsplay.blogspot.com

please note: High-resolution images of book covers and some participants available upon request to those who dare.

LATER NOTE: This event occurs on International Talk Like a Pirate Day. That may make things a tad more interesting…

Tags: British Fantasy Society, FantasyCon, Gary McMahon, Guy Adams, Humdrumming Book of Horror Stories, Peter Crowther, Rain Dogs, Simon Strantzas, The Land at the End of the Working Day, The Reach of Children, Tim Lebbon

And, for those of you not checking the Humdrumming Blog on a regular basis, out now is the ‘Short List’ of those individuals and / or works which are the top five voted for (or six, if there’s a tie) by members of the British Fantasy Society and attendees of the 2007 and 2008 FantasyCons. You can read the complete list right here.

Humdrumming titles have made the short-list in two categories:

• Best Novella: All Your Gods Are Dead, Gary M^cMahon
• Best Anthology: The First Humdrumming Book of Horror Stories, Ian Alexander Martin (as editor)

The competition in both categories is considerable, and very much worthy of your regard. We are chuffed to be considered alongside them for these two awards.

Should you wish to examine these two titles for yourself, move your little clicky pointer and select the cover of the book you are intrigued by through the images below.

All Your Gods Are Dead Gary McMahon	The 1st Humdrumming Book of Horror Stories

The awards are announced on Saturday, the 20^th of September, 2008, at the Britannia Hotel, Nottingham, UK. Everyone at Humdrumming wishes the best of luck to all those nominated in every category.

Tags: 9781905532407, 9781905532483, All Your Gods Are Dead, Anthology, BFS, British Fantasy Society, FantasyCon, Gary McMahon, Humdrumming, Ian Alexander Martin, novella, The First Humdrumming Book of Horror Stories