… the charming Charles Tan kindly interviewed me a few weeks back – here t’is a sampler: Hi! Thanks for agreeing to do the interview. First off, what got you interested in speculative fiction? I’ve always had a lot of fantasy/science fiction in my reading lists. I blame my mother for starting me on fairytales [...]
Archive for January, 2010
Bibliophile Stalker …
Posted in News, Pimping/Promoting!, tagged Bibliophile Stalker, charles tan on January 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
AAs!
Posted in News, tagged Apex Magazine, aurealis awards, cat sparks, karen miller, LL Hannett. Abigail Nathan, peter m ball on January 25, 2010 | 8 Comments »
A fabulous night had by all! List of winners here http://www.aurealisawards.com/finalists_winners.htm Congrats to all . Special huzzah to Peter M Ball for ‘Clockwork, Patchwork and Ravens’ in Apex Magazine May 2009. There was Snoppy Dancing. At the back: moi and the other half of the Brain, Lisa Hannett. In front, the lovely Abigail Nathan (freelance [...]
Aurealis Awards
Posted in News, tagged aurealis awards, fantastic queensland, horn, judith wright centre, peter m ball, twelfth planet press on January 23, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Tonight is Aurealis Awards night here in Brisneyland, the last one run by Fantastic Queensland, possibly the last one ever if no one takes up the franchise for next year. It’s been an amazing four years of FQ running the AAs very professionally. Great list of nominees http://www.aurealisawards.com/finalists_winners.htm - special mention to Twelfth Planet Press, the [...]
Wooooooot!!!
Posted in News, tagged horror writer's association award for specialty press, rosalie parker, tartarus press on January 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The awesomely glorious Tartarus Press has been awarded the Horror Writer’s Association Speciality Press Award for 2009! That’s a nice 20th birthday present for Rosalie and Russell and very well deserved.
Pssssst
Posted in News, tagged dumbo feathers on January 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Dumbo Feathers. It’s all I’m saying … http://dumbofeather.com/
More Good Advice
Posted in On Publishing, tagged Jean Hannah Edelstein, publishing deals, rachel hills on January 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
From the Brain of Rachel Hills: You ask, I answer: So you want to get a book deal? When I invited you guys to throw me your writing/media related questions last week, I didn’t expect the first one (from blogger Andrew McMillen) to be such a doozy. While I’ve flitted around the edges of the publishing [...]
Two of My Favourite Things
Posted in News, On Writing: General, tagged Bibliophile Stalker, Kaolin Fire on January 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Bibliophile Stalker meets Kaolin Fire … Kaolin Fire is a conglomeration of ideas, side projects, and experiments. Web development is his primary occupation, but he also develops computer games, edits Greatest Uncommon Denominator Magazine, and occasionally teaches computer science. He has had short fiction published in Strange Horizons, Tuesday Shorts, Escape Velocity, and Alienskin Magazine, [...]
Saturday is Aurealis Day
Posted in News, Pimping/Promoting!, tagged aurealis awards, code of conduct, dress code, fantastic queensland, judith wright centre on January 19, 2010 | 4 Comments »
This Saturday, 23rd Jan 2010, the Aurealis Awards take place – the last one run by Fantastic Queensland. Do you have your ticket? I’ve been getting some questions – I don’t know why – but in the interests of being helpful I present a brief Code of Conduct. 1. Have a ticket – do not turn [...]
Book as Art
Posted in Random, tagged Anouk Kruithof, book as art on January 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
By Anouk Kruithof. http://mhpbooks.com/mobylives/?p=11655
On Behalf of All Writers, I Apologise
Posted in News, On Publishing, On Writing: General, tagged crazy writers, editing, editorial ass on January 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This is why editors and publishers make voodoo dolls of us and stick pins in them: has anyone seen my shotgun? [Phone rings. It is one of my authors, whose book is publishing shortly--long ago catalogued etc.] Author: I’ve been thinking, the title of my book shouldn’t be [TITLE HERE]. It would be much more [...]
