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"Bedford adeptly weaves together romance, action, and fantastical elements, all set against a richly realized series of far-flung locations. Conflict both nautical and emotional keeps things exciting." Publishers Weekly (Winterwood)
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"Bedford builds a taut story around the dangers of a new world.... Readers who crave high adventure and tense plots will enjoy this voyage into the future." - Publishers Weekly ( Empire of Dust)
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Who doesn't love a far-future novel of evil megacorps and their telepathic agents? Nobody, that's who. In this one, there's a fun twist: the "Psi-Tech" implants drive you insane unless you stay connected to the company that put them in you. Until one agent, Cara Carlinni, figures out how to go rogue without losing her mind." -io9
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"WINTERWOOD, the first book in Jacey Bedford's new series Rowankind, combines all sorts of delicious elements into a delectable whole. Urban fantasy, historical fiction, magic, shapeshifters, a strong female lead and top it all off with pirates. I certainly couldn't resist the temptation, and the result was thoroughly satisfying." - Fresh Fiction
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"Bedford’s punchy, readable style propels the reader easily through the complexities of the well-paced plot, and her world-building, whilst utilising some tropes, also displays interesting and original touches which bode well for future novels." - Jaine Fenn (Tales from the Garrett)
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"The skill of this book lies in Bedford’s ability to seamlessly combine intrigue-heavy, multi-viewpoint plotting with human stories featuring characters you care about – a rare feat in this genre." - Jaine Fenn (Tales from the Garrett)
Welcome
Jacey Bedford writes fantasy and science fiction, she's been published on both sides of the Atlantic. Her first five books are published by DAW: Empire of Dust, Crossways, and Nimbus, Psi-Tech novels. They are science fiction/space opera. Plus Winterwood and Silverwolf the first two Rowankind Books - historical fantasy set in 1800 with a cross-dressing female privateer captain, a jealous ghost and a wolf shapechanger. Jacey's under contract for Rowankind, the third in the Rowankind trilogy, due in December 2018
Her writing blog, Tales from the Typeface is on Wordpress. You can follow her writing history from the offer of her debut three book deal with DAW as it happens, plus pick up writing advice and the writing-relevant minutiae of a writer's life.
Her personal; blog is on Dreamwidth. What does she blog about? Writing, books, movies, local history, family history, reminiscences, music, things that interest her on a local or global scale. What doesn't she blog about? She doesn't use her blog as therapy.
She's on Twitter @jaceybedford also has a Facebook presence and she blogs what she reads on Goodreads (see panel below).
Jacey is co-organiser of the Milford SF Writers' Conference, an annual workshopping week for published SF writers and she's also the coordinator for the Northwrite SF writers' group. She maintains the Milford blog at milfordsfwriters.wordpress.com
A firm advocate of critique groups Jacey was a member of the (now defunct) Recog email crit group for eight years and thanks all her co-critiquers for their excellent input. Now, in addition to attending Milford annually, she takes part in Northwrite SF, a quarterly face-to-face critique group for speculative fiction writers within striking distance of the north of England. Jacey maintains the Northwrite website and you'll find her links for writers there.
Chesk out Milford here: www.milfordSf.co.uk
Advice for writers.
Apply the seat of your pants to a chair, your fingers to the keyboard and write. When you've finished, polish it. When it's as good as you can possibly make it, format it correctly and submit it. Then apply the seat of your pants to your chair again... etc. Rinse and repeat. There is no other way. If you don't write it and send it out, you'll never get published.
| News: 2018 |
| 10th December Excellent Publisher's Weekly review of Rowankind. "Gripping final Rowankind installment... a strong and satisfying wrap-up of the series" |
| 5th December There's a good review of Rowankind at Arched Doorway. |
| 30th November I've done an interview for Civilian Reader. |
| 29th November. Here's my blog post on Sharon Stogner's I Smell Sheep blog. |
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| 26th November I have an interview up on the Jean Book Nerd blog. |
| 21st November New blog post up at Skiffy and Fanty. Thank you Paul Weimer |
19th November |
| 17th November An interview with me re Rowankind is now up at File 770. Thanks to Mike Glyer for hosting and to Carl Slaughter for the interview itself. Good questions, Carl. |
| 17th November. A complete rundown of the Rowankind trilogy ia now up at Fille 770. |
11th November |
| 9th November My author copies of Rowankind arrived today! Whoo-hoo! Publication date is now 27th November 2018. |
| 3rd November New Blog Post: First chapter of Winterwood. Read it here. |
3rd November
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| 22nd October New blog post: SF Conventions and How to Survive Them |
| 8th October: New Blog post: Gentleman Jim Speaks Out - the Rowankind books from the piratical perspective |
| 28th September New blog post: My Week at Milford. |
11th September: |
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| 22nd August Whoo-hoo! I'm one of the core authors in Zombies Need Brains new kickstarter anthology 'Portals.' Here's a link to the kickstarter for this and two more anthos. It goes live today. |
| 14th August New blog post on book covers |
| 31st July New blog post on Dropping a Pebble Into the Pond |
| 17th July New blog post on Character self-determination. |
2nd July |
| 13th June New blog post on my story 'Make Me Immortal With a Kiss' in Second Round, A return to the Ur-Bar |
| 23rd May My blog post on 'What Times We've Lived Through' is up now |
| 17th May Nice review of Silverwolf in The Nameless Zine. |
| 14th May Jacey's piece on the Milford Blog: The Parallels between Singing and Writing |
8th May |
| 25th April Jacey's blog: The Reading Conundrum. |
| 17th April Cover reveal of my upcoming book, Rowankind, last in the Rowankind trilogy. Due from DAW in November 2018 |
| 5th April Here's my blog post at Authors Electric on The Geography of Words. |
| 4th April Comedy panel at Eastercon with me, Jaine Fenn and Juliet McKenna discussing 'Men in Science Fiction and Fantasy' with the delightful Adrian Tchaikovsky as our token male. |
| 18th March New blog post: My Eastercon Schedule |
| 27th February New Blog Post: Pleasantly Pleasing Progress |
| 15th February New Blog Post: How to get a Literary Agent |
30th January |
| 16th January New blog post: Discovering what I didn't know I didn't know |
3rd January |
| News: 2017 |
| 20th December New blog post: Looking forward and Looking back - ten years of Blogging |
| 6th December My story 'The Stolen Shoes' will be in Enchanted Conversations - a Fairy Tale Magazine on 8th December. It's the Elves and the Shoemaker edition so no prizes for guessing what the story's about, but it's a complete switch-around. |
| 28th November My story, The Horse Head Violin, is in the anthology: Children of a different Sky, edited by Alma Alexander. Buy in the USA. Or buy in the UK Proceeds to help refugees |
| 28th November New post on my blog: My Top Ten Children’s Books – a Personal List |
| 14th November New post on my blog: NaNoWriMo – almost the halfway point |
| 30th October My blog post has news of my new book contract for Rowankind. |
| 26th October My blog post about committing trilogy is up at Skiffy and Fanty: |
| 20th October An interview by Carl Slaughter for File 770 |
| 18th October My guest blog post is up at The Qwillery. |
| 17th October There's a really thoughtful review of Empire of Dust here. |
| 16th October My new blog post about The Writer's Pen is up now. |
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My 5th novel NIMBUS is published today. |
| 3rd October My blog post 'They Came in Their Thousands,' about my Belgian refugee/World War One story is up on Alma Alexander's website. I have a story called The Horse Head Violin in her anthology 'Children of a Different Sky.' |
| 3rd October My blog post is up on the Milford blog: 'Things I didn't Know When I started to Write a Trilogy' |
| 3rd October My blog post 'Happy Book Day To Me' is up on my own blog. |
26th September
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| 21st September New blog post I Am/Am Not a Word Machine |
| 9th - 16th September Live Blogging from the Milford SF Writers' Conference |
| 3rd September All about the Zombies Need Brains kickstarter for the anthology I'm in: 'Second Round' |
| 21st August Blogpost: What I learned about Tallinn that I couldn't have found in a Guidebook. |
| 9th - 13th August Worldcon in Helsinki I have one panel on Sunday afternoon 13th August: 15:00 - 16:00, 216 (Messukeskus) History as World Building. Using knowledge and research of real-life history as world-building fantasy and science fiction. Thomas Årnfelt, Jacey Bedford, Heather Rose Jones (M), Jo Walton, Angus Watson |
4st August |
| 27th July New blog post: Bladdered or Shitfaced? The gentle art of word choice and the bogglement of page-proofing. |
| 11th July New blog post Corwen Silverwolf Speaks |
News: 2014, 2015, 2016 & 2017 |
24th August
