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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: July 2010
A Rose by Any Other Name …
I was thinking the other daythat it pays to give a work-in-progress a name.
Even if it’s a working title, unlikely to remain, just give it a name.
It’s like having a kid – you kind of need to have something to call it. “Hey, you”, “WiP” or “That thing that’s
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Tagged titles, works in progress
The Bluegrass Symphony Drive-by: L L Hannett
Lisa Hannett survived Clarion South in 2009 (inspite of my cooking), and in the eighteen months or so since she’s published stories in (but not restricted to) Clarkesworld, Fantasy Magazine, Chizine, Weird Tales, ONSPEC, Midnight Echo, Scary Kisses, and Ann and Jeff VanderMeer’s Steampunk Compendium. She is also
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The Fluffy Unicorns Drive-by: Peter M. Ball
Peter M. Ball is a Clarion South survivor (i.e. member of the Borg Collective) from 2007. He is the writer responsible for Horn, the novella that ruined fluffy white unicorns for everybody (thankfully!). Its follow-up, Bleed, follows the further misadventures of Miriam Aster as she tries, generally very unsuccessfully,
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Tagged claw, drive-by interview, drive-bys, horn, peter m ball, twelfth planet press
Meanwhile, over at Ecstatic Days
Tagged chocolate, ecstatic days, kim wilkins, neil gaiman, rejections, submissions
Drive-by: Robert Shearman, father of the intergalactic dustbin
Robert Shearman is a nice man. He’s also an amazing writer – allow me to quote from a review of his first collection, Tiny Deaths, “The dialogue is witty and wise, the settings believable, and the characters… well, they’re all
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Drive-by Festival
Errrrrrr, I never expected so many people to be so nice and say ‘Yes’ when I asked them to answer random questions.
But they were and they did and they have.
So, as a result: in the lead-up to WorldCon in September, I will now be presenting the Festival of
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Tagged aussiecon4, drive-by interview, drive-bys, worldcon
Mmmmmmmm, Evil?
Was wandering to work this morning and looked up to see an advert for the new Go Between Bridge – yes, that’s how we roll in Brisneyland, we name bridges after bands, but seriously, why not the Powderfinger Bridge?? But I digress … at the bottom of the poster were these words, writ large: All part of Council’s plan.
And I
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Tagged brisneyland, go between bridge, powderfinger
