Monthly Archives: June 2009
Grab your dictionary and read this
Mr Mieville again at Omnivoracious – Neither a Contract Nor a Promise: Five Movements To Watch Out For – I like to sit with my Oxford Concise close at hand whenever I read a Mieville-esque piece. No one else makes me feel quite so much like Ralph Wiggam and I often mumble to myself ‘I have a cat called Mittens’,
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Reasons to Love Nancy Kress
1. The White Pipes is one of my favourite books.
2. She writes about writing in a way that’s clever yet accessible; erudite yet appealing. And just damned practical and down-to-earth.
Here she blogs about the discipline of writing – i.e. the application of the backside to the chair and the fingers to the keys. It’s a useful read because sometimes we all
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And some extra bloggy goodness, just coz we can
The Mieville’s (why can’t I get the damned accent on that damned ‘e’? *grump*) blogging week at Omnivoracious is yielding some superb stuff like this There and Back Again: Five Reasons Tolkien Rocks shttp://www.omnivoracious.com/2009/06/there-and-back-again-five-reasons-tolkien-rocks.html
More Bloggy Goodness
From Jeff VanderMeer’s Ecstatic Days:
Last year, I interviewed China Miéville for Weird Tales’ 85th anniversary issue. Yesterday, I posted a short excerpt of the interview on Omnivoracious as part of an announcement about China blogging there. (For those of you living under rocks and on distant planets, his The City & The City was released recently.)
I’m posting the full interview
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Aurealis Awards
The Aurealis Awards are now open for nominations – go here for details http://www.aurealisawards.com/index.htm.
The important thing to remember is not who wins or loses, but that the ceremony rocks! 🙂
Super Useful
Jeff VanderMeer has re-opened his critique service – hard to get better quality crits than from this guy, seriously. See http://www.jeffvandermeer.com/2009/06/16/critique-service-open-again/
First Review of 'Horn' to hit t'internets
From Nyssa at http://www.awritergoesonajourney.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=491&Itemid=203
“A brilliant and very unique story.
Miriam Aster was once a cop – and also dead, but she doesn’t remember much of it – and is looking for her next month’s rent, which comes in the form of a mate at the morgue with an unusual corpse.
You’ll never look at the fey or unicorns the same ever again.
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Blogtacular
The most excellent and erudite CHINA MIÉVILLE blogs at Omnivoracious all week http://horrorfictionnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=567:china-mieville-guest-blogging-all-this-week-at-omnivoracious&catid=32:author-news&Itemid=710
NatCon – or What I Did in Adelaide that Didn't Involve Frog Cakes
I arrived a day early, which was great because it meant I got to spend some time with the awesome La Belle Hannett, my fellow Clarionite and the other half of my brain. We found a cafe, Notcoffee (which provided much bacon) and talked; we talked a lot; then we talked a bit more. Her partner Dr Chad had cleverly
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