Monthly Archives: March 2010

Grain of Truth – Part One

March 11, 2010 | News, Pimping/Promoting! | Leave a comment

Baron Samedi watches as I pour out the wine and measure the grain. He makes sure I don’t have a chance to steal some for my poor, shrunken belly; to sift through in search of something special. It’s not fair, but he knows me too well; isn’t prepared to risk the
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Cover-related Squeeeeeee!

March 11, 2010 | News, Pimping/Promoting! | 4 Comments

The Scary Kisses anthology has its cover – and it’s gorgeous :-) . LL Hannett and I are most pleased :-)

Table of contents:
The Anstruther Woman, Nicole R. Murphy
Fade Away, Ian Nichols
Bread and Circuses, Felicity Dowker
Black Widow, Shona Husk
The
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Such stuff as stories are made of

March 11, 2010 | News, Random | 1 Comment

AN elderly Chinese woman has shocked friends and family by growing a devil-like HORN from the top of her head.

The strange growth began appearing on 101-year-old Zhang Ruifang’s forehead last year. 

Since then it has reached more than two inches long — and a matching horn looks to be appearing on the other side.

Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2884782/Chinese-woman-grows-devil-horns.html#ixzz0hp7hrvOW

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Again with the love for xkcd

March 10, 2010 | Random | Leave a comment

 

http://xkcd.com/712/

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Call for Recommendations: reprint anthology

March 10, 2010 | News, Pimping/Promoting! | Leave a comment

From the lovely Tehani at FableCroft Publishing:

In the past two years, I’ve read a number of works that made me decide to put together a collection of very Australian flavoured stories. The collection is titled Australis Imaginarium, and will be produced by my new press, FableCroft Publishing, which will also be printing my original anthology for kids, Worlds Next Door.

I’m
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Filled with Awe

March 10, 2010 | News | Leave a comment

 

Weightless Books: Books that Don’t Weight You Down.

Cool name.

http://weightlessbooks.com/about/

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Steampunk Reloaded

March 7, 2010 | News | 8 Comments

The word ‘compendium’ was developed by the Universe in the hope that people like Ann and Jeff VanderMeer would come along.

LL Hannett and I have scored a berth on the good ship Steampunk Reloaded, with a couple of literary artefacts :-) , the main one being “The Curious Case of Physically-Manifested ‘Bed-Sheet Mania’”. Not as gross or
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Developing a Crush …

March 7, 2010 | Random | Leave a comment

… (non-sexual) on the Escapist. Language warning – put your children away somewhere. Thanks once again to David the IT Guy for t’interwebby goodness.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/969-Scribblenauts

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This is what we need …

March 7, 2010 | Random | Leave a comment

More steampunk’t fruit instead of weapons:

* and thanks to Jason Fischer for the pic.

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Just Can't Help Myself

March 3, 2010 | Random | 3 Comments

I know it’s old hat.

I know they’ve done it before … used all the elements over and over.

Gabriel

City of Angels

Nightwatch

Even The Omen

But still, I will probably see this http://www.legionmovie.com.au/

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