EightSquared is the 2013 UK National Science Fiction Convention in Bradford - 29th March to 1st April.
Freda Warrington is the author of Elfland, Midsummer Night and A Taste Of Blood Wine among other fantasy novels and has just completed her twentieth book, Grail Of The Summer Stars for Tor (US). She has spent most of her life in Leicestershire, where a love of the ancient landscapes of Charnwood Forest inspired an early feeling for otherworldly atmospheres and storytelling. After training at Loughborough College of Art, she worked for several years in graphic design and medical art, along with a variety of other jobs in between writing. She also enjoys arts and crafts, all things Gothic, yoga and walking, Arabian horses, SF conventions and travelling with her husband Mike.