Post the Fourth: Solaris authors at the World Horror Con!

Brian Lumley signing for all his many, many fans at the con!

Vincent Chong, cover artist for Shine, poses with his shiny, shiny creation. Shine is being launched at Eastercon next weekend!

Ian Whates, author of The Noise Within (coming out from Solaris in May) with his writing-group pal Ian Watson, author of the Spielberg movie AI: Artificial Intelligence

Some scary looking chap and, no, wait, the scary-looking one is Andy Remic

Conrad William in 'The Reading Cafe,' reading from the novel he'll be writing for Solaris next year...

Jon Oliver and Ellen Datlow, editor of the Poe anthology, out for lunch

Ellen on the Women in Horror panel moderated by Maura McHugh

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See previous posts and photos from the World Horror Con over here. Now comes with added Neil Gaiman!

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First post: Live-blogging from the Brighton World Horror Con! (click links for photos!)

Thursday: Jon and I jumped in the van yesterday morning, got to Brighton with very little hassle and met Ian Whates, author of The Noise Within, while unpacking the van. Not how I wanted my first meeting with Ian face-to-face to go but oh well! "Hi Ian...argh...tooo many boxes...argh."

We checked in, met Paul Kane doing his kick ass convention organising thing in reception, got our goodie bags and headed over the the dealers' room, where Weston Ochse signed a load of books for us, saved us from falling posters and gave us a present from Arizona.

Jon and I then did the Pitch Black rights fair, where we heard lots of exciting new ideas from up and coming authors for new Solaris and Abaddon Books, and also popped in to see Weston on a panel defending the living dead from the undead.

I met Paul Cornell in the bar and fangirled at him for a bit about his Captain Britain and MI13 series for Marvel Comics, and we ran into the Angry Robot chaps, who watched Gary McMahon's panel with us (Lee Harris poking me in the back of the head all the way through and blaming it on Mark Morris - here he is looking guilty) before we all headed out for a curry with Simon Bestwick, author of Abaddon's Tide of Souls, too.

Just had breakfast looking out at the sea and now we're in the dealers' room purveying our wares...

See the second post about WHC over here at the Abaddon blog!

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