Robert Holdstock - it's snow joke
18/05/2007 . Source: Jessica Martin 
On the 8th June 2007 top author Robert Holdstock is visiting the Birmingham SF Group to talk about what he has been up to recently. He first visited the group in February but when the snow kept away all but three devoted fans, he vowed to return. This will take place at the Britannia Hotel, New Street, Birmingham and will cost £3 BSFG members, £4 all others. For further enquiries please email bhamsfgroup@yahoo.co.uk
This event will be preceded by Rob appearing with a host of other authors at Waterstones, High Street, Birmingham. Others appearing include Juliet McKenna, Mark Chadbourn, Chris Dolley, Steve Saville, Ian MacLeod, Graham McNeil, Eric Brown and David Devereux.
The multi-signing is free and starts at 5pm.
For more details ring 0121 633 4353.
Robert Holdstock was born in Kent in 1948 (from East of the Medway). His childhood was spent between the dense woods of the Kentish hearthlands and the bleak expanse of the Romney Marsh, near which he was born. After nine years of being a student, specialising in medical Zoology, Robert became a full-time writer in 1975.
His early novels include Eye Among the Blind, Where Times Winds Blow and Necromancer. His short stories are collected in In the Valley of the Statues and The Bone Forest. He has written a variety of Celtic, Nordic, Gothic and Pictish fantasy, a series of occult thrillers: Night Hunter, and the novel of John Boorman's film The Emerald Forest.
His most famous work is Mythago Wood, for which he won the World Fantasy Award in 1985. This novel was described by Michael Moorcock as "the outstanding fantasy book of the 80s", and the following novel in the cycle, Lavondyss won the British Science Fiction Association's award. He now lives in North London, collects masks, and escapes to the forests and the wilds whenever possible.
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