Links

Winterbirth on Facebook - If you're a Facebook user, pay a visit to Winterbirth's page there and Become a Fan to stay in touch with developments and get sneak previews.

www.transreal.co.uk Transreal Fiction – Edinburgh's leading specialist sf/f bookshop. They're the people to contact (details on their website) if you want to buy a signed copy of Winterbirth (and hopefully any future books).

www.forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog
A very active and nicely presented blog covering a huge range of genre-related stuff: books, comics, merchandise, film and TV etc. It's far more interesting and varied than you might expect of a retailer's blog...

www.deepgenre.com
Interesting blog for a group of writers that includes Katharine Kerr, Kate Elliott, David Louis Edelman and Kevin Andrew Murphy. Site includes a '13-line critiques' section, which is one of the few places aspiring writers can get feedback on their work from the pros – albeit only on the first 13 lines...

www.orbitbooks.net
The Orbit Books website, complete with blog.

www.sfrevu.com
Monthly webzine full of sf/f reviews covering all media.

www.ttapress.com
Home of the UK's leading speculative fiction magazines: The Third Alternative (shortly to be relaunched as Black Static, I believe) and Interzone. Both are excellent magazines, with high production values.

www.scalzi.com/whatever
A great blog by a US author.

www.uksfbooknews.net
Regularly updated sf/f/h news blog, with an emphasis on the UK publishing scene.

thebookswede.blogspot.com
A UK sf/f book blog with plenty of reviews, interviews and book giveaways.

The Write Fantastic Livejournal
The place to go to sample the thoughts of a whole group of UK fantasy writers, including Juliet McKenna, Chaz Brenchley and Mark Chadbourn.

Falcata Times
A pdf webzine stuffed with sf/f reviews, interviews and news snippets.

Pat's Fantasy Hotlist
For reviews, interviews and free copies of newly published fantasy novels.

My Elves Are Different
A webcomic, and other stuff, for inhabitants of the sf/f blogosphere.

The Genre Files
A blog for genrephiles, from a chap whose multiple involvements in the UK sf/f scene include keeping afloat a lot of authors' websites (including this one).

The Accidental Bookseller
Something a bit different: autobiographical cartoons from h5l5n5.