SATURDAY 29 JULY – 2 PM
Panel – Studio 3
Author Rosie Talbot (Sixteen Souls) leads a discussion on fantasy of all shapes and sizes. Explore 90’s New Orleans (Mina and The Slayers, Amy McCaw), encounter unexpected magic by the English seaside (Overemotional, David Fenne) and plunge into a world of flying ships (Rebel Skies, Ann Sei Lin) in this special panel that explores very different shades of fantasy and how these vastly different worlds were built.
About Amy McCaw
Amy McCaw is a YA writer and blogger. She’s the author of Mina and the Undead, a YA murder mystery set in 1995 New Orleans. Amy also loves travelling and has a particular affinity for America. She’s visited 29 states, 13 Man Vs Food restaurants and many bookish locations, including the cities where Twilight, Interview with a Vampire and Vampire Diaries were set.
About Ann Sei Lin
Ann Sei Lin (she/her) is a writer, librarian, and book nerd with a love for all things fantasy. Though London is now her home, she spent several years in Chiba, Japan, living in a rickety apartment block next to a rail station where the rush of the midnight train would make the walls shake. When not writing, she is often studying, gaming, or trying to make that origami rabbit for the one hundredth time.
Rebel Fire is the second in a pacy and vivid fantasy adventure trilogy set in a world of flying ships, sky cities and rebel uprisings. The first in the series, Rebel Skies, published in 2022.
About David Fenne
David Fenne is an author, actor and improv comedian. Originally from a small village in coastal Dorset, he went to London in 2012 for drama school (studying American Theatre Arts at Rose Bruford College). He also trained abroad for half a year at Syracuse University, NY, an experience that inspired a lot of the transatlantic humour in his writing. Currently, he works as a scriptwriter for an e-learning platform and runs long-form improv theatre company Pinch Punch. From improvised musical pantos to a sell-out Agatha Christie-style improvised whodunnit, he's entertained audiences the length and breadth of the UK (in many a wig and outrageous accent).
About Rosie Talbot
Rosie (she/her) belongs to the leafy wilds of Sussex England where she works as a bookseller. A lover of the magical and macabre, Rosie writes stories that are like her hair: dark, twisted, and certainly not straight. Sixteen Souls is her debut novel with Twelve Bones following in October 2023. She can often be found lurking as @merrowchild on BookTok.
