The stand of the editors gives you the opportunity to meet frontline fantasy authors and illustrators. Discussiongroups and dedication scéances will be organised with the authors on saturday and sunday.

You'll find several magazines, fanzines, editors and associations with their stands showing what they are up to today (see at the bottom of the page).

Authors

Here are the names of the authors who have confirmed to attend the festival as for now (more to be confirmed):

Stan Nicholls (UK) Writer, anthologist, journalist and critic englishman who works with fantasy as well as science-fiction. His series ''Les Orcs'' (Bragelonne) is a reference in its genre as it explores the mind of a hated race. The ''Nightshade'' and ''Vif-argent'' are also success series from his hand.
Véronique Bacci (F) French Heroic Fantasy writer, born in 1980. She is the founder of Iceberg Editions, publishing young writers, including herself, starting off with her novel ''Altéha''.
Rose Berryl (B) Belgian fantasy writer, born in 1982, author of a series called ''Damenndyn'', with the first three volumes published by Luce Wilquin.
Sire Cédric (F) French fantasy writer, born in 1974. Some of his novels are gathered in ''Dechirures'' (published by Nuit d'Avril, 2005), and his novel Angemort (Nuit d'Avril, 2006) has excellent critics.
Pierre Dubois (F) French fantasy author, television columnist and scriptwriter, born 1945. Author of several novels of reference linked to Little People and to tales and legends like "La Grande Encyclopédie des Elfes", "La Grande Encyclopédie des Elfes", "La Grande Encyclopédie des Fées", "La Grande Encyclopédie des Lutins" and "Leçons d'elficologie". He has also written the scenarios for series like ''Le Grimoire du Petit Peuple", "Laïyna", "Les Lutins", "Le Torte", "Pixies", "Petrus Barbygère", "Le Miroir des eaux", "Red Caps" et "Saskia des vagues " in the "Long courrier" collection.
Damian Eicker (F) French writer, his first novel is in a Dark fantasy style called ''L'enfant de la mort'', first in a cylclecalled ''Les Portes des Spheres du Monde'', published at Iceberg Editions.
Murielle H. Essling (F) French fantasy writer, whose first fantasy novel called ''Le Temps de l'accomplissement'' (published by 5eme saison) has won the Merlin prize. Her second novel called ''La Guerre des Immortels'' was pulblished in 2006.
Mélanie Fazi (F) French author and translator, born in 1973, whose oeuvre explores a very personal fantasy, which we can admire in her short stories: Serpentine (Oxymore, 2004), but also in her novels : Trois Pépins du fruit des morts (Nestiveqnen, 2003) and Arlis des forains (Bragelonne).
Laurent Genefort (F) French science fiction and fantasy author, born in 1968, whose demanding oeuvre makes him one of the best authors of his generation : ''Le Cycle d'Omale''. Amongst his latest writings we can find : La Mecanique du Talion (L'Atlante, 2003), Le Nom maudit (Octobre, 2005).
Sandrine Gestin (F) Sandrine Gestin is a feerie and fantasy artist by excellence, inspired by normand legends, epic stories and fantasy stories. When we look at her splendid scenes, indeed we cannot deny these inspirations. Here's an elf queen, and there's dark angerlic personnage.
Denis Labbé (F) French author, translator and critic, born in 1965, co-author of a dozen of essays about fantasy and science-fiction (published by Belin and Ellipses) and notably a study about Harry Potter.
Alain le Bussy (B) Belgian science fiction writer, born in 1947, author of more than thirty novels, amongst which the series ''Aqualia'' and ''Yorg'' (Published by Eons).
Xavier Mauméjean (F) French science-fiction and fantasy author, born in 1963. He's inpired by adventure novels and detective novels. With ''La Venus Anatomique (Mnemos, 2004), he revisits the Frankenstein myth, however his ''La ligue des heros (Mnemos) is on a steampunk theme. He won the fantasy novel Gerardmer prize in 2000 with ''Les memoires de l'homme elephant''.
Claire Panier-Alix (F) French fantasy writer, born in 1969, who has published the series of ''Chronique insulaire'' (Nestiveqnen) amongst which the four reedited are a reference in its genre.
Recently confirmed authors (biography coming soon) Edouard Brasey (F) P.J. Hérault (F) Philippe Ward (F) Sylvie Miller (F) John Lang (F) Laurent Whale (F) Simon Sanahujas (F) Franck Guilbert (F) Olivier Bidchiren (F) Michel Rozenberg (B) Philippe Halvick (F) Hervé Gourdet (F)

The Publisher's pole stand

Illustration

Colexia
A professional proposing personalised photo series and reproductions of wellknown artists (like Michel Borderie) or lessknown artists.
Website: www.colexia.com

Faiseurs Editions
A professional proposing Sandrine Gestin's merchandise (postcards, Sandynettes, Posters, bookmarkers, reproductions, etc...).
Website: www.faiseurs.com

Krystal Camprubi
French illustrator and painter who explores the ''wonderful'' theme. You'll meet her at the exhibition gallery of Trolls & Legendes.
More info on the exhibition's page.

Agnes Toth / Equilibrium
Hungarian painter and illustrator expert of fantasy themes.
More info on the exhibition's page.

Laurence Peguy
Illustrator proposing a series of drawings, inspired by Harry Potter's universe. Besides her exhibition, one can meet her and her fanzine, a kind of booklet of scetches and watercolours on the same theme.
Website: www.la-pensine-d-harry-potter.com

Publishers / Authors

Beez Entertainment
French audio-visual distribution company, that belongs to the Namco Bandai group, specialised in manga. Their catalogue features series like Ghost in the Shell, Wolfs Rain, Eureka, Gundam and Witch hunter.
Website: www.beez-ent.com

Noir Dessin Production
Publisher of Books, Comic-books, Music, artefacts, etc... about Wallonia and its traditions, folklore, habits and its Wallonian language.
Website: www.noirdessin.be

Editions Nuit d'Avril
Maison d'édition, née en 2003, spécialisée dans le Fantastique, la science-fiction, le Thriller et le Roman noir. Elle promeut les auteurs d'expression francophone et contribue au lancement de jeunes auteurs en devenir.
Website: www.nuitdavril.com

Iceberg Edition
A young publisher who issues relevant oeuvres of Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Fantastique, Science-fiction, Role playing games, and of Poetry.
Website: www.iceberg-editions.com

5e Saison Edition
Publisher dedicated to the imaginary, and which claims to revelate french-speaking talents. ''Le temps de l'accomplissement'', of M.H. Essling, its first issue, has won the Merlin prize of 2006.
Website: www.5emesaison.fr

AK Editions
Publisher proposing a collection of illustrated fantasy and fantastic litterature, as well as figurines, cards and games on the same theme.
Website: www.ak-editions.com

Editions du Tremplin
Publisher with the main goal of discovering new authors of fantasy, anticipation, science-fiction, and detectives. Notably its catalogue features the Aquatica trilogy of Corinne Gutteaud.
Website: www.editionsdutremplin.com

Editions La Nef des Fées
Association which promotes legends and the imaginary of the Ardennes. As a specialised publisher, La Nef des Fees proposes its first book, ''Petit Guide de la Féerie en Ardenne'', by Olivier Rime and illustrated by Hervé Gourdet, as well as a collection of posters, postcards, etc.
Website: www.telemake.org

Philippe Halvick
French author of heroic fantasy, of fantastic, and of science-fiction. Notably he is the author of ''Chrysalide'', ''Ange'', ''démon'', ''Petit Dragon'', and of ''Un livre pour le Tigre'''.
Website: http://phalvick.free.fr

Fanzines / Associations

Anthêsis
Association which promotes young authors and illustrators, in the imaginary domain in the larger sense (Fantasy, Feerie, Fantastic, Science-Fiction, Thriller). Its members also edit the lefantastique.net website (news from today's fantasy in the form of literature, comics, music, cinema, RPG's, and tales & legends) and they organise events like the Troll&Légendes festival, the Pavillon des Trolls, the Fantastique.Nights concerts, and the Pilgrimage parties.
Website: www.lefantastique.net

Harry Potter Forever
Association of young webmasters, webdesigners, coders, and webdevelopers. They are the editors of a french Harry-Potter website. Amongst their websites is also the Trolls&Légendes festival's website.
Website: www.harrypotterforever.org

Tolkiendil
Association which promotes J.R.R. Tolkien's oeuvre. Apart from the website, containing an encyclopedia, a gallery, essays, etc... , Tolkiendil publishes a fanzine, L'Arc et le Heaume, on the same theme.
Website: www.tolkiendil.com

Fées Divers
A magazine dedicated to Féerie (promoting and studying Féeric folklore) and to tales and legends (Classical as well as contemporary), proposing thematic documentation, columns, reviews, interviews, illustrations and short-stories. Its first issue is called ''Sombre Féerie''.
Website: www.feesdivers.com

Borderline
A fanzine dedicated to short-stories, published by the Catharsis association. The association's main goal is to promote, develop and encourage independant literary oeuvres that have to do with fantastic.
Website: http://legendsleoben.free.fr

Club Présences d'Esprits
Association started off in 1992, in the beginning to respond to the letters coming from readers of the Présence du Futur collection. It reunites fans of Fantasy, Fantastic, and Science-fiction in order to promote the imaginary of fantastic in all its shapes and forms. PDE also produces a homonymous fanzine and has published an anthology of short-stories written during the writing ateliers, ''Esprits Mutants''.
Website: www.club-pde.com ou www.anneau-monde.com

ActuSF
Actusf is a news website with everything about imaginary genres (Science-fiction, Fantasy, Fantastic) in literature, literature for children and comic-books. Every week the site comes up with online content as articles, interviews, reviews, a publication agenda, an events agenda, writing competitions and games.
Website: www.actusf.com

Raxxon
A medieval-fantastic fanzine inspired by role-playing games, in the form of a book with comics, produced by the MDM Production association. This team also proposes side-products like scetchbooks made by their illustrators, postcards, and bookmarkers.
Website: www.raxxon.com

MéluZine
An association which promotes young authors and which references all amateur magazines (fanzines), dead or alive, and doing so helps the public to get to know the authors. It also publishes an informatoin bulletin about fanzinism called Rézine.
Website: www.meluzine.org


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