Monthly Archives: December 2009
Project Bringing The Ugly
At the behest of my friend and second brain, Lisa Hannett, I am taking part in Project Bringing The Ugly – or showing writers in their natural habitat. None of this neat, attractive, airbrushed writer in a tidy study. This is real writers, exhausted, emptied-brained, untidy and slightly mad. And so, here it is, me after work, and the study, which
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I Did Not Lie – The Chrysanthemum Bride is here
Lucky for me Peter M Ball pays attention – The Chrysanthemum Bride is now up at Fantasy Magazine.
He who tries to express spirit through ornamental beauty will make dead things.
–from an 11th century Chinese treatise on art.
“See how the skin glows?”
“It’s like a pearl, master.” It is only
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On Awards – again
The Aurealis shortlists are out and it’s all very exciting, but I’d like to refer back to a post I made not long ago – just for a bit of perspective. http://angelaslatter.com/2009/10/15/on-the-winning-of-awards-and-prizes/
Yes, I’m excited about being shortlisted. It’s very nice to be on the list. But it won’t make me a better or worse writer if I win or lose.
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More Aurealis Awards!
And here’s the full list of the shortlisters 🙂
Lots of friends’ names here, which makes me happy!
Karen Miller, Cat Sparks, Sean Williams, Peter M Ball, Stephen M Irwin, Kaaron Warren, Deb Biancotti, Alisa Krasnostein, Pamela Freeman and many more!
http://www.aurealisawards.com/finalists_winners.htm
Aurealis Awards Shortlisting
Huzzah – a lovely surprise – just got an email from Ron Serdiuk, Coordinator of the Aurealis Awards.
My story Words, which appeared in The Lifted Brow # 5, has been shortlisted for Best Fantasy Short Story.
Thanks so much to wonderful TLB editor Ronnie Scott, and also (and especially) to the judges
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Beyond Borders: the Future of Bookselling
Great post from Rachel Cooke over at guardian.co.uk –
Borders has gone belly-up, Amazon thrives, and doom-mongers are proclaiming the death of literature on the high street. But this could be the opening of a fine new chapter…
The rest lives here http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/nov/29/borders-bookshops-independent-lutyens-rubinstein
The Bribie Pack
This is the bunch of reprobates who went to Bribie for The Edge Writers’ Retreat a couple of months back … only the names have been omitted to protect the guilty or slightly culpable … except for Kirstyn McDermott, whose photo it is … and Jason Nahrung who desseminated said photo …
Did I cop it for the plaits? Yes, I
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Clarkesworld
Oh, look at Clarkesworld #39, if only coz the cover is awesome – http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/artbio_39/
