Cover for Damnation and Dames!

Awesome sauce :-D

Over at ThrillerCast, I say stuff …

… the delightful and charming Alan Baxter and David Wood ask me questions about short stories, stakes, fairytales, flensing and the Highlighters of Doom.

On occasion, I swear.Keep your small children away.

Be warned.

T’is here.

An Introduction to Australian Horror over at This is Horror

Lisa Hannett gives a run-down on the state of Australian horror …

Australia is a land of extremes. One minute the country is ravaged by drought and bushfires, the next it’s drowning in devastating floods. The continent is a combination of enormous red deserts meeting sprawling metropolises meeting ancient
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Tuesday Therapy: Deborah Kalin at the Hannettorium

Deb Kalin gives good advice over at the Tuesday Therapy performative space, here.

Place as Person: The Places You Think You Know

Over at Mary V’s Lisa Hannett talks about places and tricksters, here.

THE YEAR’S BEST DARK FANTASY & HORROR

And in the squeeee that was heard around the world, the lovely Paula Guran at Prime Books has picked up my short story “Sun Falls” (from Ticonderoga Publications’ Dead Red Heart).

Also on the list are Margo Lanagan, Tanith Lee, Norman Partidge, Joan Aiken, Caitlin R Kiernan, Kaaron Warren,
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Sparks over at Kaaron Warren’s Place …

… with the awesome Dan Abnett – talking about trains and inspiration and stuff.

“My ideas come by train. And bus. Mostly train. Public mass transport, basically. I presume they buy their own tickets.”

The rest is here.

Postscript: the Magick 4 Terri auction

Terri Windling's Studio

This is just a lovely little thank you/summary of the Magick 4 Terri auction. This was an amazing effort by organisers Liz & Mia, and I’m very proud to have been able to contribute. I’ve enjoyed Terri’s work since I was a teen
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What I did on my holidays, Or ten things Skyrim has revealed about me

The background to this whole problem is as follows: I’m not a gamer. Have no interest in games. Have never played computer games. My Significant Other tried (unsuccessfully) to get me to play Morrowind. Not one to give up, he then tried Oblivion with an identical result.

Surprisingly resilient,
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Woot – first sale of 2012!

Very happy to announce that Lisa Hannett’s and my story “Prohibition Blues” has sold to Liz and Amanda at Ticonderoga Publications for the awesome and upcoming anthology Damnation and Dames.

There are shoes, werewolves, the Charleston, feathers, chases through swamps, folk with mixed human-Fae blood who can do some marvellous
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