Reminder: BFS Awards 2007 - voting deadline looming

Filed by: Darren Turpin on July 27, 2007 at 18:17
Filed under: Books

Just a quick memo to fellow members of the British Fantasy Society to remind you all that the deadline for voting in this year's BFS Awards is next Wednesday, August 1st, so get your postal ballots sorted out over the weekend or complete the online form, if you haven't done so already. I sent mine in this week (he says, virtuously) and I'm looking forward to the annual round of cheering and friendly barracking that is the awards dinner at Fantasycon, where I think Pete Crowther might be roping me into hosting a table on behalf of PS Publishing (cough Best Small Press Category cough), or something...

Filed on: July 27, 2007
Filed under: Books
Tagged With: British-Fantasy-Awards

Comments

6 Responses to 'Reminder: BFS Awards 2007 - voting deadline looming'

Christopher Teague on July 30th, 2007 8:32 am

Oooooh, that's a nasty cough you have there. Have you taken any benylin? ;-)
Ariel on July 30th, 2007 8:52 am

The coughing will be twice as loud after October... :)
Christopher Teague on July 30th, 2007 4:31 pm

... erm, September you mean?

It's been mooted on the Shocklines board whether the term "small press" is counter-productive and in a away I agree: I like small press for the cosy, quaint image it portrays but I prefer independent press myself.

PS must be on the same level has Subterranean or Nightshade in the US surely?
Ariel on July 31st, 2007 8:58 am

I meant that after October I'd have two UK independent press clients to cough for... :)

And I heartily agree that 'independent press' is a much better moniker than 'small press', which may have been appropriate when the defining factor was literally the size of your company's printing press, but not any more, surely. It's not like the music industry is full of 'small labels', is it?

As for the wording on the BFS Award category... don't get me started (again...)
Christopher Teague on July 31st, 2007 9:08 am

Right, forgot... I think I'll be needing the benylin. ;-)

I may actually go to the AGM this year...for once.
Ariel on July 31st, 2007 9:23 am

Ah, yes. The AGM that the BFS takes oh, so seriously, by always holding it on the Sunday morning when everyone really feels like attending... has anything useful ever come out of one of those sessions?