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Black-Winged Angels, Sourdough, and The Girl With No Hands are available now. Find where you can buy them.
And now featured in the upcoming Stephen Jones anthology: A Book of Horrors.
Monthly Archives: June 2010
It was a dark and stormy gerbil: Writing a love scene or How not to
Courtesy of my friend and colleague, Aimee, the latest Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest for bad writing. I had been contemplating a post on writing love scenes badly, but I think this takes the biscuit:
“For the first month of Ricardo and Felicity’s affair, they greeted one another at every stolen rendezvous with a kiss - a lengthy, ravenous kiss, Ricardo lapping and sucking
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Catherynne Valente – Rules for Editing
Via the Bibliophile Stalker, this from Catherynne Valente (she of Palimpsest fame) made me laugh and nod … this is my favourite line, but I’d suggest reading the whole damned thing:
I cannot begin to understand the logic that says: BORING STUFF UP FRONT, AWESOME TO THE BACK.
Today's Drive-By: Kirstyn McDermott, Duchess of Darkness
Kirstyn McDermott’s work has won Aurealis Awards, Ditmars, been anthologised in Best Of collections and garnered Honorable Mentions from the likes of Ellen Datlow. Her first book, Madigan Mine, is out very, very soon. It should be purchased and read as soon as possible. She
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Ditmar Voting
(snurched from Jason Fischer)
Looks like it’s time for Ditmar voting again. As this is the year of AussieCon4, it’s a great chance to showcase some antipodean talent.
Tehani Wessely is compiling a list, checking it twice, for eligible Aussies – it lives here https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AhAUWipZqrNWdFljalBZWmJwSnc1cTJVT2s0ZnlMLVE&hl=en_GB#gid=0
It also seems I have four stories eligible:
Frozen
Light as Mist, Heavy as Hope
Words
The Girl with
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Tagged Alan, and Trent Jamieson, aussiecon4, Baxter, cat sparks, Chris Greene, Deborah Biancotti, dirk flinthart, ditmars, Felicity Dowker, frozen, Garth Nix, Gillian Polack, Heavy as Hope, jason fischer, jenny blackford, kaaron warren, kathleen jennings, Kirstyn McDermott, laura goodin, Lee Battersby, Lezli Robyn (also a Campbell nominee this year), Light as Mist, LL (Lisa Hannett), peter ball, sean williams, Steph Campisi, tansy rayner roberts, the girl with no hands, Thoraiya Dyer, words
Tiny Drops
Here’s something I’m very happy to post: the new Midnight Echo is out, guest edited by Lee Battersby … and containing a creepy story I lurve. L L Hannett’s Tiny Drops is seeing the light of day … the kicking the proverbial out of the light of day and stealing its wallet.
This story started out at Clarion South in 09
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There is nothing that cannot be improved by the addition of bacon …
Thank you, ThinkGeek.com, thank you.
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/squeez-bacon.html
Tagged bacon, thinkgeek.com
This Week's Drive-by: Karen Miller
Karen Miller is a best-selling Australian fantasy author. She brought back the duopoly (take that trilogies!) … then she wrote some trilogies, too, and they were awesome (take that, duopolies!). Her work includes the Kingmaker, Kingbreaker duopoly, the Godspeaker Trilogy, two Stargate SG1 tie-ins, three Star Wars novels (including Stealth, which has just gone for a third printing), and, as
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