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SHELFIES: Adele Wearing of Fox Spirit Books

We won the British Fantasy Society Award for best small press in 2015. It was awesome. I was completely flawed and there were so many people we have worked with in the room, it was a lovely feeling. We have had a number of works shortlisted and it’s always nice to get that acknowledgment of our authors and all the work we do. In some ways when a writer we work with gets an agent or sells books that feels the same as when we get shortlisted for an award, James Bennett and Ren Warom have got amazing trilogies with Orbit and Titan and every time something like that happens we celebrate a little at FS. That’s partly the ‘I was right, they rock’ dance and partly the ‘good things happening to good people’ dance btw. I would love Fox Spirit to be seen as somewhere to discover new writers you might enjoy as a reader and seeing our writers go on to bigger better things is confirmation that that can be the case.