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Here a taster of our
2024 Exhibitors
1320Elements
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About 1320Elements:
Tell us a bit about yourself and your work.
1320Elements encapsulates the creative output of Michael Stephen Clark, writer, publisher, and podcaster. I specialise in natural history, folklore, mystery, and magic realism: all of my ten books strongly feature one or more of these elements. I have also created online radio shows and podcasts.
What would you say is the biggest inspiration for your work?
The Natural World – it’s unique in the Universe….....so far as we know
Look out for my new work this year
Forthcoming works include a playscript about a Victorian naturalist who becomes an exhibit in his own museum. Also, a spoken-word piece that imagines an AI entity with very human sensibilities. Later this year, I expect to publish ‘Erin Greengloves and the Thieving Magpie’, the third and last book in the ‘Erin’ series.
Where can people go to purchase your work?
My work can be purchased here.
AK Faulkner
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About AK Faulkner’s work:
Tell us a bit about yourself and your work.
Award-winning author of the Inheritance series, an ongoing queer adult urban fantasy saga. AK lives with the world's best Corgi, and the world's worst cat.
Do you have any new work that you'd like to highlight?
Wheel of Fate is book 10 in Inheritance, and wraps season two. It's released on the 31st of May.
Where can people go to purchase your work?
my physical shop and for digital products, go here
British Fantasy Society
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About the British Fantasy Society:
Tell us a bit about the Society
The British Fantasy Society is a is a place for people to come together to celebrate the joy of Fantasy, Horror and Science Fiction. We run events both online and in person, including workshops and writing retreats as well as our annual convention, Fantasycon. We produce two regular publications - the BFS Journal for non-fiction and BFS Horizons for fiction - and occasional special publications. On our website you'll find reviews, interviews and industry news. We also run the British Fantasy Awards every year.
Find out about membership here: https://britishfantasysociety.org/join/
Ell J. Walker
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About Ell:
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Ell is an Edinburgh-based comic artist and illustrator who originally emerged from the North Sea. A lot of their work is inspired by folklore and the ocean - though they are also a big fan of death metal. Their favourite things to draw are horses, guitars and sad men.
Do you have any new work that you'd like to highlight?
My newest comic, Catharsis, is being published by Quindrie Press - the Kickstarter is launching on the 10th of May! Catharsis is about confidence, and learning to express vulnerable feelings. It's set in a coastal Scottish town and follows Dimitri, a shy metalhead who's in love with his best friend. After the ocean presents him with a mysterious stone, he accidentally summons a heavy metal demon made of his own feelings. Check out the campaign here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/quindriepress/quindrie-press-2023
What is your biggest inspiration for your work?
Folklore and fantasy stories have always been a huge inspiration for me, mostly because they're a way to explore universal themes and emotions through an accessible medium - whether that's word of mouth fairytales and stories from long ago, or contemporary sci-fi!
Where can people go to purchase your work?
A.D Jones
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About A.D. Jones’ work:
Tell us a bit about yourself and your work.
I am an Indie Author with a particular focus on the dark and unsettling. My books are currently split between standalone horror works and an ongoing Urban Fantasy Thriller series.
What would you say is your biggest inspiration for your work?
Reading books has been a huge part of my life, and so creating my own and instilling my own dark, unique take on new stories has been my driving force.
Do you have any new work that you'd like to highlight?
My Latest novel, Sacrificial Waters was released on April 1st.
Dragon Lime
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About Dragon Lime’s work:
Tell us a bit about yourself and your work.
Cherie Baker is an an artist and author. Her work tends feature coffee fuelled heroines, found families, and unruly animal sidekicks. Her first novel, Out of Time, evolved out of questions about the trend towards vampire/human romantic relationships in many books and films. She didn't feel they correctly captured how vast the differences in age and cultural backgrounds would be. This book evolved in a superhuman, save-the-world, epic adventure with our not quite immortal heroine learning about and overcoming creatures from other dimensions that live on Earth.
What would you say is your biggest inspiration for your work?
Reading, science, and coffee shops.
Do you have any new work that you'd like to highlight?
Cherie is currently working on two new series. One about an agoraphobic dragon and a reluctant coffee shop owner learning to live together. The second is an Urban Fantasy spin off from the Timeless Julieanna world.
Engine 1991 Creations Ltd
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About Engine 1991 Creations Ltd:
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I'm an aspiring Scotland-based writer who is releasing his own line of independent Scottish comics and more.
What would you say is your biggest inspiration for your work?
History
Do you have any new work that you'd like to highlight?
Caged Rats The Comic Volume 2.
Glasgow in 2024
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About Glasgow in 2024:
Tell us a bit about yourself and your work.
Glasgow 2024, A Worldcon For Our Futures is the 82nd World Science Fiction Convention. It will be held in Glasgow in the Scottish Events Campus (SEC) in Glasgow August 8-12, 2024. Worldcon is one of the oldest SF conventions that still take place. It began in 1939 and since then it is travelling to different place every year. 2024 will be the third time when it is held in Glasgow (previously it took place here in 1995 and 2005).
Last year we announced our Guests of Honour.
- Chris Baker - Claire Brialey - Mark Plummer - Ken MacLeod - Nnedi Okorafor - Terri Windling
You can find more about them here: https://glasgow2024.org/whos-coming/guests-of-honour/
Our community is a thriving one, and we welcome everyone to join us, share their ideas and celebrate the UK’s ongoing love of science fiction and fantasy.
Join now https://glasgow2024.org/get-involved/join-glasgow-2024/
How can people get in touch?
Check out the GET INVOLVED section on our website or fill out our contact form.
Check out the Glasgow 2024 merchandise.
Guardbridge Books
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About Guardbridge Books:
Tell us a bit about yourself and your work.
Guardbridge Books is a small press in Fife publishing Science Fiction and Fantasy (and now history/non-fiction) in print and e-books. We like fiction that has strong literary qualities and provokes thought about important ideas, but which is also entertaining to read. We have authors from around the world, and many of our works contain an international or multicultural aspect.
Are there any works coming out this year that you're looking forward to, whether your own or someone else's?
We have recently been developing our history line, with "Scotland's Untold Stories" out this spring. We plan a science fiction anthology in association with the St Andrews University Exoplanet Research Centre this summer, a collection of essays and stories commemorating the 100th birthday of Stanislaw Lem in September, and some novels at the end of the year.
Where can people go to purchase your work?
Print books can be ordered from our website or online retailers.
Ebooks can be purchased from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and Apple Books.
Gustavo Vargas / Gustaffo Vargas
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About Gustavo Vargas / Gustaffo Vargas
Tell us a bit about yourself.
Gustaffo Vargas is a Peruvian comic book artist and writer based in the UK.
Since 2017 he self publishes Peruvian Cyberpunk comics, where he explores Pre-Columbian culture, South American societies, technology, and cybernetics in dystopian worlds.
He has worked with Dan Abnett in the sci-fi comic CRAYTA as lead artist and character designer, he's made illustration work for Shelly Bond and Declan Shalvey. His latest collaboration is WTFK: A Lyrical with Jeff Boison for IMAGE Comics Anthology #10.
He has also worked with UK independent publishers and self publishes SKRAWL Comix Magazine with the SkrawlLordz.
Do you have any new work that you'd like to highlight?
My latest Peruvian cyberpunk trilogy: MANU, PUNO & PILCUYO.
Where can people go to purchase your work?
Work can be purchased on my website.
Haunt Publishing
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About Haunt Publishing:
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Haunt Publishing was founded in 2018 and is an independent publisher of Gothic, horror and dark fiction in all formats. Dedicated to exploring both traditional and contemporary Gothic and horror literature, Haunt holds a flickering candle to global and underrepresented voices. We publish books with the curse of unputdownability, that keep a reader up all night. Books that provoke unease, terror and dread. Basically, we publish books that haunt readers long after consuming them.
What’s new from Haunt?
This Is My Body, Given For You by Heather Parry and The Gingerbread Men by Joanna Corrance
What would you say is your biggest inspiration for your work?
The desire to highlight Gothic in new locations.
Where can people go to purchase your work?
Publications can be purchased here.
HF Cunningham
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About HF Cunningham
Tell us a bit about yourself.
I am an indie author who writes queer fantasy books based on Scottish myths. Remnants of Blood was my debut novel about Tannin, a young baker with a sharp tongue, a monstrous hidden past and a weakness for pretty girls. She reluctantly allies with the scheming Princess Avalyn to fight against a secret society who wants all of her kind to remain a myth. The story continues in Remnants of Power which releases on the 1st of June. The stakes become higher as Tannin has to step and claim her blood right in order to survive.
Do you have any new work that you'd like to highlight?
Remnants of Power, the sequel to Remnants of Blood, releases on the 1st of June
What would you say is your biggest inspiration for your work?
Scottish mythology and queer TV shows like She-Ra and Warrior Nun
Where can people go to purchase your work?
Anywhere that sells books online!
Isaac Nightingale
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About Isaac:
Tell us a bit about yourself and your work.
Issac Nightingale was born and raised in the fictional town of Blackwater Lake, somewhere in Minnesota. He spends most of his time hunting monsters and being a figment of Liam Blaney's imagination.
Liam is the secret author of B-Movie Bloodbath. He lives in N/E England and is a lifelong horror fan. When he isn't writing, he enjoys the cinema, painting, photography and chilling with his cat, Luna.
Do you have any new work that you'd like to highlight?
B-Movie Bloodbath which is new
What is your biggest inspiration for your work?
B-Movie horrors from the 80s
Where can people go to purchase your work?
Jim Alexander
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About Jim’s work:
Tell us a bit about yourself and your work.
Two of my stories were adapted for TV series Metal Hurlant Chronicles (King's Crown & Whisky in the Jar) which you can catch on Amazon Prime. I’ve written for DC (Batman 80-Page Giant, Birds of Prey), Marvel (Spectacular Spider-Man, Uncanny Origins), Dark Horse (Eden, Baden) and Tokyopop (Star Trek Manga).
I'm currently promoting my second novel called the Light. A work of speculative fiction, the Light explores a world where you wake up and know this is the day you die. How would such a world shape the way we think, our views on each other and society, how we conduct our personal and financial affairs; how we live and how we will die?
Just spent a lovely afternoon participating in Brave New Words.
There's lots of propaganda on my website!
Are there any works coming out this year that you're looking forward to?
I'm hoping to have the novel Good Cop (follow up to GoodCopBadCop) out for the second half of the year.
Where can people go to purchase your work?
My work can be purchased here.
Knot Unknot
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About Madeleine’s work:
Tell us a bit about yourself and your work.
I knit with data, including space images and cellular automata, on a hacked knitting machine that links to my laptop. I make lots of accessories, wall hangings and cushions. I also created Alba ad Astra, the collaborative investigation into the lost Scottish space programme. As well as the core book of the project there are prints, postcards and t-shirts available.
Do you have any new work that you'd like to highlight?
I will have the last ten copies of original Alba ad Astra booklet signed by Ken McLeod and myself. Collecting the rest the authors' signatures is left as an exercise for the reader! I'll also have some prints, t-shirts, bags and cards from my Alien Surfaces and Alba ad Astra collections which haven't been offered before and new knitted work based on NASA photographs and Conway's Game of Life.
What is the biggest inspiration for your work?
Making tactile textiles out of maths and data. Also science fiction, of course!
Where can people go to purchase your work?
Online
Knot Unknot on Folksy https://folksy.com/shops/KnotUnknot/
Knot Unknot on Teemill https://knot-unknot.teemill.com/
Alba ad Astra at Shoreline of Infinity https://www.shorelineofinfinity.com/product/alba-ad-astra-scotlands-forgotten-history-of-space-exploration/
Real life shops
Transreal Fiction, 46 Candlemaker Row, Edinburgh
Logan Malloch, 13 Leith Walk, Edinburgh
Ragamuffin, 278 Canongate, Edinburgh
Coburg House Gallery Shop 15 Coburg Street, Edinburgh.
Luna Press Publishing
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About Luna Press Publishing:
Tell us a bit about Luna Press.
Established in 2015, Luna Press Publishing is an award winning Scottish press, specialising in SFF fiction and non-fiction.
What would you consider your biggest creative influence or inspiration?
Luna Press has always been driven to look beyond the page and towards multicultural approaches to SFF. Academia Lunare is our award-winning academic branch for speculative non-fiction, where we focus on the critical assessment of speculative literature. Our fiction is aimed at providing a multicultural approach to story-telling, to enrich our understanding of the world and discover all the voices.
Are there any works coming out this year that you're looking forward to?
Loads, just have a look over on our website!
Where can people go to purchase your work?
All publications can be purchased here.
Felfira Moon Designs
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About Felfira Moon Designs’s work:
Tell us a bit about yourself and your work.
My name is Fiona, I am an animation graduate and ex-bookseller. I've always loved books, so I mixed in my creativity and my discovery of enamel pins many years ago, boom! Next thing I know I'm making them myself! Since then I've designed and made all sorts of bookish and nerdy inspired work, from enamel pins to wooden charms to prints and stickers!
What would you say is your biggest inspiration for your work?
Books and their readers. I love seeing how people respond to books and translating that into my work to show how I feel about books too in the hopes that others can relate. I also really love galaxies and the colour purple, I will use any excuse to include the colour wherever possible!
Fran Morton
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About Fran Morton
Tell us a bit about yourself and your work.
I'm a fantasy illustrator, print maker and comic creator inspired by mythology, folklore and Arthuriana. Fond of tragedy, dark themes, and characters who are doomed by the narrative.
What would you say is your biggest inspiration for your work?
Most of the inspiration from my work comes from folklore and history. In terms of art style I draw inspiration from many different sources across illustration, comics, animation and figurative painting.
Where can people go to purchase your work?
Head to my Etsy Shop
Lenny Montgomery
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About Lenny’s work:
Tell us a bit about yourself and your work.
I am a Science Fiction writer based in Edinburgh. Veritas, my debut novel, was published in 2022 and is part of a series, the second book of which I am currently writing!
My first novel was published in May 2022 and I am working on the second in the series. I have at least four titles planned in the series. One of my motives for my writing is to break the stigma around science fiction and to bring it to a new audience and to break down the barriers and stereotypes that surround the genre. My work is set 800 years in our future which gives me scope to play with ideas and innovations in science, medicine and technology while weaving in stories of family, love and friendship.
Do you have any new work that you'd like to highlight?
My first novel - Veritas: the Captain’s Redemption
What would you say is your biggest inspiration for your work?
My biggest inspiration has been Star Trek, but also my love of Boys’ Own Adventure type stories and I wanted to bring that sense of adventure and thrill into a space setting.
Where can people go to purchase your work?
Directly through myself (via website or social media) if they want it signed, or it’s also available on Amazon - it is cheaper to buy from me directly however!
Museums at the University of St Andrews
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About Museums at the University of St Andrews:
Tell us a bit about yourself and your work.
Scientists have identified the existence of exoplanets, but we can’t see them! How do we learn and think about worlds that we can’t see? In recent decades we have discovered over 5000 planets outside our solar system. We’ve learned about new types of planets that we had no idea existed. Exoplanets are planets outside our solar system. We often can’t directly observe exoplanets but indirect observation techniques enable us to learn about them. Imagination and interdisciplinary thinking is fundamental to how we understand exoplanets; arts and humanities have a role to play in helping us to understand exoplanets. Alien Worlds at the Wardlaw Museum showcases this fascinating dialogue between art and science, demonstrating that both are important in developing our understanding of the universe.
Do you have any new work that you'd like to highlight?
At CYMERA we'll have a range of work that the audience can interact with. We will be asking visitors to imagine an exoplanet, describe it for us, and write a message to send to an exoplanetary civilisation. We'll have lots of examples from the exhibition on hand to inspire these responses.
Page One
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About Page One:
Tell us a bit about yourself and your work.
At Write Gear, we want to create products to help writers of all kinds tell their stories. Why? Because we’re writers ourselves. Hailing from the world’s first UNESCO City of Literature in Edinburgh, we love to tell stories and create new worlds for people – including ourselves – to explore. But we also understand that sometimes the tools to tell those stories can be lacking; whether it’s a tattered notebook or simply that we don’t have anything with us to work on our next great idea, we know how frustrating it can be to lose track of that story we wanted to tell. Plus, let’s be honest, all writers love shiny new toys, right?
Our first product, Page One, is a notebook we designed because we genuinely wanted a product like it, and couldn’t find one. We like to think of it as a notebook created by writers, for writers.
In addition to the notebook, we also host a weekly podcast called Page One - The Writer's Podcast where we speak to writers of all kinds to learn about how they go about creating their stories. Each new episode is a deep dive into that guest’s writing history, including how they broke into the industry and what their writing process is. We also explore their work, and try and eke out any exciting forthcoming tales! Past guests have included the likes of Ben Aaronovitch, Fonda Lee, Joe Abercrombie and many more.
Where can people go to purchase your work?
You can check out our Page One notebooks (specially-designed notebooks to help you tell your next great story) and our podcast on our website. Be sure to follow us on our social media to stay up-to-date with the latest offers and find out who the latest guest is on The Page One Podcast.
Quindrie Press
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About Quindrie Press:
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Quindrie Press is an award-winning and Eisner-nominated comics publisher based in Edinburgh, Scotland, founded by comic creator Eve Greenwood in 2020. In 2022 we were nominated for a Creative Startup Award from Creative Edinburgh. Our work ranges from stand-alone short stories, to graphic novels, to various anthologies. Our focus is to provide creators with the opportunity to publish passion project comics that haven’t found their home anywhere else. We have a particular interest in helping marginalised and upcoming creators to publish their work. Each month we donate a portion of our PDF sales to a different charity or organisation dedicated to supporting marginalised communities in Scotland.
Are there any works coming out this year that you're looking forward to, whether your own or someone else's?
Our newest collection, featuring four brand new short comics, will be on Kickstarter from May 10th until June 7th! Featuring a heavy metal demon, a journey to the fae realm, a fungi-infested train, and a crumbling cyborg. You can find out more at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/quindriepress/quindrie-press-2023!
Where can people go to purchase your work?
Work can be purchased on the Quindrie Press website.
Shoreline of Infinity
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About Shoreline of Infinity:
Tell us a bit about yourself and your work.
Shoreline of Infinity is a publisher based in Edinburgh, Scotland. As well as a range of science fiction-related publications Shoreline of Infinity also publishes a regular science fiction magazine featuring new short stories, poetry, artwork, reviews, and articles.
Writers we’ve published include Aliya Whitely, Iain M Banks, Jane Yolen, Nalo Hopkinson, Charles Stross, Eric Brown, Ken MacLeod, Ada Palmer, Gary Gibson, Jeannete Ng, Adam Roberts, Jo Walton. We’re especially proud of all the new writers we’ve published.
Shoreline of Infinity Science Fiction Magazine received the British Fantasy Society Award 2018 for best magazine/periodical.
Shoreline of Infinity is the organiser of Event Horizon - live science fiction - and more.
Do you have any new work that you'd like to highlight?
Look out for "Shoreline of Infinity 35" - launching at Cymera, and also "Once Upon a Biofuture: Tales for a new millennium" also launching at Cymera.
What is your greatest inspiration?
Limitless imagination.
Where can people go to purchase your work?
Our own website is best.
Starstruck-k
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About starstruck-k:
Tell us a bit about yourself and your work.
Hello! I’m K (she/they), a UK-based comic artist fostering a love of space, stars, and magical realism. Last year I completed my master’s degree in Comics & Graphic Novels at the University of Dundee. Now, you can find me working on various personal projects alongside my freelance work.
Do you have any new work that you'd like to highlight?
Almost everything I’m bringing with me to CYMERA festival will be brand new! Come to my table if you’re interested in stickers, prints, and zines.
What is your greatest inspiration?
My work is largely inspired by Japanese manga and Franco-Belgian bande dessinée. I enjoy creating from a sense of wonder, which I think can be attributed in part to watching Star Trek and Studio Ghibli films from a young age. Much of my inspiration comes from engaging with the things I love and seeing other artists doing the same.
Toadlett
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About Toadlett’s work:
Tell us a bit about yourself and your work.
I'm a Glasgow-based artist working in comics, illustration, narrative games and traditional printmaking. My work often has strong queer and environmental themes and draws from wildlife, folklore and myth. I've made comics about queer Arthurian knights, criminal fairies, and Scottish devils, as well as books of cursed swords, fictional clowns, and poetry about birds. I’m currently working on environmental horror games, zines about goblins, and even more queer Arthurian comics!
What would you say is your biggest inspiration for your work?
Wildlife and the natural world, and how we incorporate nature into ourselves via folklore and storytelling.
Where can people go to purchase your work?
my physical shop and for digital products, go here
Tristan Gray
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About Tristan Gray
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Tristan Gray is a dark fantasy author based in Edinburgh, drawing inspiration from Gaelic folklore and mythology and the landscape, people, and languages of Scotland into a series of tales. Outside of writing he works as a software engineer, is a keen gamer and acrobat, and is involved in LGBT+ rights campaigning.
Do you have any new work that you'd like to highlight?
The Red Raven - The sixth and final entry of my series of short dark fantasy novellas
What would you say is your biggest inspiration for your work?
The Witcher Series and Lord of the Rings
Where can people go to purchase your work?
Anywhere that sells books online!
Ver
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About Ver’s work:
Tell us a bit about yourself and your work.
Ver is an artist from Eastern Europe, currently residing in Edinburgh, Scotland. They are working on their debut graphic novel, The Wildercourt.
What would you say is your biggest inspiration for your work?
Many illustration and comic artists, notably Yuko Ota and Kaoru Mori.
Where can people go to purchase your work?
On Kofi