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✷ Booking opens November ✷ Join us on 27 March 27 at Notts central library for panels, signings & more! @guyhaley.bsky.social @nickybandini.bsky.social @johnfrench.bsky.social @writervh.bsky.social @squintywitch.bsky.social @thetowerofstars.bsky.social @gavthorpe.co.uk Art @eliotbaum.bsky.social

I've been waiting for the news to break... and here we are! Really looking forward to getting going with this (and returning to Aradane!). There are so many people I've been wanting you all to meet... My heartfelt thanks to @johnj.bsky.social and the team at The Broken Binding.

I'm really delighted to pass on this news for @thetowerofstars.bsky.social and @thebrokenbinding.bsky.social www.thebrokenbindingpublishing.com/news/matthew...

Just absolutely blown away. Got finished copies & look how stunning they are! That cover stamp! The endpapers!!

‘We put back the mythology that they're trying to sell or obscure’ The legendary Michael Moorcock on what storytellers do. It was an honour to meet him last week, to hear his wisdom and stories and to have my copy of Wizardry & Wild Romance signed!

✷ Our Fair Realms guest authors and panels are all announced!✷ Stay posted for panel, workshop and signing tickets (coming soon!) Follow Fair Realms on Bluesky and Instagram to be the first to know when tickets are released 🎟 Artwork @eliotbaum.bsky.social

I'm so excited that @gavthorpe.co.uk will be delivering this workshop at the Fair Realms Festival! I attended the same one at Edge-Lit 2018 & it unlocked so much for me in terms of my own writing practice I don't think I'd have a writing career without it. So - massive recommendation from me! 🖤

This Saturday 24th! @gavthorpe.co.uk & myself will be on the road this weekend: ✷ 10.00 - 11.30ish: Geeks Headquarters, Chesterfield, S40 1PS ✷ 14.00 - 15.30ish: Wargames Emporium Mansfield, NG18 1NA ✷ 16.00 - 17:30ish: Sanctuary Gaming Centre, Sutton-in-Ashfield, NG17 1BE Come & say hello!

✷ Fair Realms Panel Reveal ✷ Magic & Worldbuilding A discussion on world building with magic, its function and forms & the art of writing it. Sui Annukka @thetowerofstars.bsky.social Sam Dolan @guyhaley.bsky.social ✷ Follow us for more reveals - tickets coming soon! ✷ 27 March 2027

✷ Fair Realms Panel Reveal ✷ Writing craft & practice Join our authors as they discuss writing craft. Where do ideas come from & how do we research? Inés Gregori Labarta @johnfrench.bsky.social Dan Abnett @squintywitch.bsky.social Chaired by Alma Solarte-Tobon Nottingham Central Library 27/03/27

Thank you so much for having us @litfest.bsky.social! We had the best time bringing Fair Realms to Lancaster & with the lovely audience. Huge thanks to @lancasteruni.bsky.social @artscouncilengland.bsky.social & @britishacademy.bsky.social for helping us write new worlds & imagine fairer futures!

The time of hammers is upon us* 🔨💀🖤🔥 *𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘮𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢 𝘩𝘢𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘳

Dropsite Massacre is out today in paperback. Go grab it: www.warhammer.com/en-GB/shop/d... #horusheresy #warhammer40k #warhammer

It's this time again 💪💪💪

✷ Fair Realms Panel Reveal ✷ Author Book Club Join Dan Abnett @squintywitch.bsky.social & @gavthorpe.co.uk @writervh.bsky.social as they discuss their latest books, exploring craft, setting and story. Chaired by @guyhaley.bsky.social ✷ Follow us for more reveals - tickets coming soon! ✷

Lancaster area people: I'm going to this Litfest event tomorrow chaired by @oliverklangmead.bsky.social and featuring @gavthorpe.co.uk, @writervh.bsky.social, @squintywitch.bsky.social and Inés Gregori Labarta. Why not go too? dukeslancaster.org/whats-on/the...

✷ Fair Realms Panel Reveal ✷ Wargaming and Fiction Join Dan Abnett @squintywitch.bsky.social & @gavthorpe.co.uk to discuss how gaming helps them write & vice versa. Chaired by @nickybandini.bsky.social, professional sports broadcaster. ✷ Follow us for more reveals - tickets coming soon! ✷

Fair Realms is coming! Bookings open soon, follow us for tickets and more announcements! 27th March 2026 Nottingham Central Library ✷Dan Abnett ✷ ✷Guy Haley✷ ✷Sui Annukka✷ ✷Nicky Bandini✷ ✷John French✷ ✷Sam Dolan✷ ✷Victoria Hayward✷ ✷Inés Gregori Labarta✷ ✷Jude Reid✷ ✷Matthew Ward✷ ✷Gav Thorpe✷

✷ GUEST ANNOUNCEMENT - Guy Haley ✷ We are delighted to announce @guyhaley.bsky.social as a Fair Realms guest! Guy will be joining us at Nottingham Central Library on 27th March 2027. ✷ ✷ Follow us for more announcements and ticket releases - coming soon ✷ ✷

Thank you Glasgow & @britfantasysoc.bsky.social for a fab Fantasycon! The last panel I went to was a late night cracker with @aptshadow.bsky.social on writing non-human protagonists at which the lovely advice ‘get yourself a spider’ was given 😂🖤🕷 An all round excellent time that was over too soon!

Heading to Lancaster on Sunday for a panel with some great co-guests.

✷ GUEST ANNOUNCEMENT - Matthew Ward ✷ We are delighted to announce @thetowerofstars.bsky.social as a Fair Realms guest! Matthew will be joining us at Nottingham Central Library on 27th March 2027. ✷ ✷ Follow us for more guest announcements and ticket releases - coming soon ✷ ✷

✷ GUEST ANNOUNCEMENT - Victoria Hayward ✷ We are delighted to announce @writervh.bsky.social as a Fair Realms guest! Victoria has written for Grimdark Magazine, Black Library, AAN Press & the Warhammer 40K Darktide game. ✷ Follow us for more guest announcements & ticket releases - coming soon ✷

🚨✷ In Lancaster this Sunday! ✷🚨 Come and see myself @squintywitch.bsky.social @gavthorpe.co.uk @oliverklangmead.bsky.social & Inés G. Labarta talking about fantasy world building! Book your ticket here ⬇️ dukeslancaster.org/whats-on/the... Hope you see you there! :-)

✷ GUEST ANNOUNCEMENT - Sui Annukka ✷ We are delighted to announce Sui Annukka as a Fair Realms guest! Winner of The Women's Prize Trust's DISCOVERIES 2022, Sui is the author of the audible original, 'The Mother Sun.' ✷ Follow us for more guest announcements and ticket releases - coming soon ✷

✷ GUEST ANNOUNCEMENT - Sam Dolan ✷ We are delighted to announce Sam Dolan as a Fair Realms guest! Sam is a SF writer in graphic and prose form. She works with SF journals and her own publishing house. ✷ ✷ Follow us for more guest announcements and ticket releases - coming soon ✷ ✷

✷ GUEST ANNOUNCEMENT - John French ✷ We are delighted to announce @johnfrench.bsky.social as a Fair Realms guest! John is an award winning script writer, novelist, and games designer. ✷ ✷ Follow us for more guest announcements and ticket releases - coming soon ✷ ✷

some commissions i did recently! annnnd i am open once again, dm me. commissions are my only source of income right now, so you'll be feeding a big dawg, a big cat, and a big plasmometer, in exchange for some good art also im really into outfit design right now

✷ GUEST ANNOUNCEMENT - Inés Gregori Labarta ✷ We are delighted to welcome Inés. She is a queer migrant storyteller publishing in both English and Spanish. She writes speculative fiction, horror and magic realism. ✷ ✷ Follow us for more guest announcements and ticket releases - coming soon ✷

The land moves, and the Winter Knight rides… Throne Questoris has been a long time coming & I’m so excited to see it announced! I hope you enjoy spending time in the strange, bleak, icy wastes of Bayoux as much as I did :-) 💀🖤❄️

There’s a new Black Library novel on the way. It’s called Throne Questoris. It features Imperial Knights. Oh and it’s written by the Deathworlder (one of my favourite recent novels’) author, @writervh.bsky.social Very hyped for this. www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articl...

✷ GUEST ANNOUNCEMENT - Gav Thorpe ✷ We are delighted to announce @gavthorpe.co.uk as a Fair Realms guest! Gav joins us at the Fair Realms Fantasy Fiction Festival on 27th March 2027 at Nottingham Central Library. ✷ ✷ Follow us for more guest announcements and ticket releases - coming soon ✷ ✷

✷ GUEST ANNOUNCEMENT - Jude Reid ✷ We are delighted to have @squintywitch.bsky.social joining us at Fair Realms in Nottingham. Jude is a surgeon, student of Scottish Gaelic, writes for Warhammer & won the 2020 Kelpies Prize. ✷ Follow us for more guest announcements and ticket releases ✷

✷ GUEST ANNOUNCEMENT - Nicky Bandini ✷ @Nickybandini.bsky.social is a football journalist & broadcaster for the Guardian, ESPN, TalkSPORT & BBC & presenter for the Blood Bowl video game's World Championship finals & ACE funded author. ✷ Follow us for more guest announcements & ticket releases ✷

....So we're doing a thing. The thing is taking over Nottingham Central Library on 27th March next year! Please save the date & share - this is a free event supported by @artscouncilengland.bsky.social We're so excited! More author reveals & details to come over at @fairrealms.bsky.social 🖤

If you like what I do, and you might be in Nottingham in March next year, then you might want to save the date... Author guest reveals start next week! 🔥👀

So excited to be able to talk more about this soon.... it's something we've been cooking for a while and we can't wait to share what we have planned! 😍🖤 @guyhaley.bsky.social @nickybandini.bsky.social @johnfrench.bsky.social @squintywitch.bsky.social @thetowerofstars.bsky.social @gavthorpe.co.uk

Authors on tour! If you're in Lancaster on 18th Oct I'll be in town with my Black Library colleagues @gavthorpe.co.uk & @squintywitch.bsky.social for a panel on building fantasy worlds chaired by the wonderful @oliverklangmead.bsky.social for @litfest.bsky.social. Hope to see you there! 🖤

It is an honour to have been eliminated by Durham Red this week - thank you @agentofweird.bsky.social! 🖤💀 2000 AD was a formative text I read as an impressionable 11 year old after finding a stash of Halo Jones & covertly reading it in between music lessons - so this is a very meaningful privilege!

I have bravely* announced a serialised novella on my Patreon. www.patreon.com/gavthorpe/po... *Foolhardy some may say.

Folk in & around Lancaster on 17 Oct - @oliverklangmead.bsky.social Inés Gregori Labarta @squintywitch.bsky.social @gavthorpe.co.uk & myself are at @litfest.bsky.social! Hope to see you there & feel free to bring anything* you'd like signed :-) dukeslancaster.org/whats-on/the... *...within reason

🔮 Marketh your diaries welle! 🔮 @gavthorpe.bsky.social & myself will be out and about on Saturday 24th October at various locations as part of the Fair Realms British Academy / Arts Council England Project. Come and say hi and let us know your thoughts on fantasy worlds!

www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articl... Guess the cat is out of the bag now! Huron Blackheart has to defend his domain of ill-gotten gains from the Great Devourer itself! Was a true honour to get to play around with as devious a monster as Huron.

Please consider it. And I'm sorry to say - chameleonic life forms - no thanks 🙏

www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articl... I had SO much fun spending a year of my life inside Bjorn's dreadnought sarcophagus. #BjorntheFellhanded #warhammer40k