Gillian Polack is an Australian hsitorian and writer of fantasy. She is the author of the novel Life Through Cellophane, edited Masques (CSFG) and the new anthology for Eneit Press, Baggage, which contains stories from such luminaries as Kaaron Warren and Deborah Biancotti. She has written fantastic entries for one of the most useful books on my [...]
Archive for the ‘On Publishing’ Category
The Demonic Suchi Drive-by: Gio Clairval
Posted in News, On Publishing, On Writing: General, tagged gio clairval, ann and jeff vandermeer, sushi for demons on September 3, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Gio Clairval is a multilinguinal, well-travelled, super-smart writer who commutes between Paris and Lake Como. She has blogged as a guest for Jeff VanderMeer (faaaaarrrr more intellectually than I) and her time in Malaysia as a management consultant provided the setting for Sushi for Demons. Watch this space. 1. The easiest part of writing is [...]
The Sharp Drive-by: Marianne De Pierres
Posted in News, On Publishing, On Writing: General, tagged chaos space, dark space, parrish plessis and sentients of orion, tara sharp on September 2, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Marianne De Pierres is (a) prolific, (b) talented, (c) cross-genre, (d) all of the above. Discuss. No, wait, don’t. No point in discussing solid facts. She has written the best-selling Parrish Plessis SF series, the Sentients of Orion series, the crime series chronicling the adventures of the kick-ass Tara Sharp, and the Burn Bright kids’ series. 1. [...]
The Drive-by from Orion: Brendan Fredericks
Posted in News, On Publishing, On Writing: General, tagged richard morgan, jeff lindsay, orion, hachette, Alastair Reynolds on September 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Brendan Fredericks is a publicist with the Orion Division of Hachette Australia – one day, when you’re a rich famous best-selling author, you may be lucky enough to have someone like him on book tour with you. Brendan has been aide-de-camp to the likes of Richard Morgan, Alastair Reynolds and Jeff Lindsay. He’s also fun, clever, [...]
The Cursebreaking Drive-by: Kyla Ward
Posted in News, On Publishing, On Writing: General, tagged horror, aussiecon 4, Shadowed Realms, Agog!, Borderlands, Scary Kisses and Passing Strange, prismatic, aurealis award, ditmar, bloodsongs, abbadon, edwina grey, jane austen fight club, tabula rasa on September 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Kyla Ward has been short-listed for Ditmars and Aurealis Awards for the stories ‘Kijin Tea’ and ‘The Bat’s Boudoir’. Her short stories have been published in venues which include Shadowed Realms, Agog!, Borderlands, Scary Kisses and Passing Strange – and her poetry has appeared in Bloodsongs and Abbadon. She is also co-author of Prismatic, under the name [...]
The Midnight Tuber Drive-by: Ben Payne
Posted in News, On Publishing, On Writing: General, tagged ben payne, wonder woman, frankenstein, potato monkey, midnight tuber, Dog versus Sandwich on August 31, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Ben Payne does stuff … lots of stuff. He writes, he edits, reads huge amounts of readable material, he critiques, he holds down a day job. Clearly, he has not enough to do. He has been responsible for Dog versus Sandwich and Midnight Tuber, he has partaken in Twelfth Planet Press projects and he believes, controversially, that Frankenstein would [...]
The Twelfth Planety Drive-by: Alisa Krasnostein
Posted in News, On Publishing, tagged A Book of Endings, bleed, Deborah Biancotti, dirk flinthart, Glitter Rose, horn, marianne de pierres, peter m ball, robert shearman, sprawl, tansy rayner roberts, twelfth planet press on August 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Alisa Krasnostein is the unsleeping powerhouse that is the engine of Twelfth Planet Press. Really, she doesn’t sleep – email her at any hour of the day or night and she’ll reply. Go ahead. Try it. See? Told ya. TPP has produced some of the finestworks in Australian spec-fic recently: Deb Biancotti’s A Book of Endings, [...]
The Shadow Drive-by: Jeffrey Ford
Posted in News, On Publishing, On Writing: General, tagged lisa hannett, Jeffrey Ford, steampunk reloaded, jeff and ann vandermeer, World Fantasy Awards, an Edgard Allan Poe, and a Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire, The Empire of Ice Cream, the drowned life, the shadow year, Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque on August 30, 2010 | 2 Comments »
In the dictionary under the word ‘prolific’ there is a picture of Jeffrey Ford. Under the word ‘ubiquitous’ it just says ‘see prolific’ … not coz they mean the same thing … but they both mean Jeffrey Ford. His awards include those of a World Fantasy persuasion, an Edgar Allan Poe, and a Grand Prix [...]
