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
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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! :-)

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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/

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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
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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

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New Story at The Daily Cabal – Inheritance

‘Miss Millikan?’

I can barely hear the woman for the noise in the background at her end. ‘Yes?’

‘It’s Nurse Seraph at Sacred Heart. It’s your grandmother.’

I feel the cold hollow in my stomach, where a vacuum forms. ‘Has she?’

‘Not yet, but you need to come down. The others are here and there’s a bit of a problem.’

‘What sort of a problem?’

‘You’ll
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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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