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Russell James shares how convention act as more than networking events for writers, but as an opportunity to be face-to-face with your readers, to make new friends, and more.

This will be my fourth title with Severed Press. The others include my novels Devil Dragon (2016) and Thylacines (2018), all of which were award-nominated. Severed Press is a leading independent publisher of horror and science fiction, publishing trade paperbacks and ebooks. Their titles are a regular feature in the top 100 horror and Sci-Fi best seller lists.

Walking Contradiction live, where Billie Joe changed the lyrics to “ Im a walking contradiction / and Im bored”, which pretty much sums up both the characterisation in, and my experience with, The Night of the Dayfish. Within the first three pages our narrator, a nameless aspiring chef, manages to sound both bored and excited by his culinary training, ruminates on how adventure is a bad idea for artists before saying how much he likes danger, and so on. Its a frustrating opening to what bi...