Editorial – January 2026

This one is a couple of days late going live, which is partly because I’ll get more readers if I publish on a weekday, and partly because I wanted to wait to be able to write about the Gŵyl Y Golau event.

February is a short month, but hopefully I will get a lot of reading done because I am going to Rome for an Assyriology conference. Travel is always good for the reading. And with any luck I will have some LGBTQ+ History Month things to write about in the next issue as well.

Meanwhile things are very busy at Wizard’s Tower. We have a whole lot of books due out this spring, and several projects that I can’t actually tell you about yet. Thankfully March should be fairly quiet, travel-wise. My first convention of the year will be Eastercon.

The other thing that is very much occupying my time at the moment is the forthcoming Senedd elections in May. Thankfully Fauxrage and his merry band of Fascist wannabes seem to be making a terrible mess of things. It is hard to pretend to be a fresh and radical voice in politics when you are also a keen supporter of Trump and Putin, and your MPs are largely refugees from the last Tory government. Of course if Plaid Cymru do end up with the majority of seats, they will have to actually run the country. Given the current international economic climate, that won’t be easy. We continue to live in interesting times.