Book Fair Australia

Last weekend (7/8 Nov) I was at Book Fair Australia. This is a large exhibition in Sydney, Olympic Park and runs for two days. It's crammed full of authors with stalls, and retailers selling book-related bling (book bags, candles and stickers). Traditionally published authors there have signing stalls, and there are panels that talk about topics from author ideas to the AI controversies. I was last at BFA in 2024 where I had two books out, and now I have five. (BFA ran in Melbourne in 2025 rather than Sydney). I shared a stall (about 1m square for a half space) with another fantasy author, Sean MT McShannon. He had twenty books, mostly novellas, that catered to different age ranges. My half-stall was on the outer edge, near the stage and the signing area. I was next to a popular romantasy author (Megan Gilbert) who attracted massive queues. I'd registered my books as fantasy, since that's their primary genre (technically the primary genre is grimdark contemporary fantasy in a…

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