Monthly Archives: September 2010
ZOMG
Have you seen this cover? Weird Tales rocks the house.
And, launched!
The Girl with No Hands and Other Stories has been launch! Huzzah! As has Kaaron Warren’s Dead Sea Fruit. Thanks to everyone who came along, bought a book, listened, ate Haigh’s choclit frawgs, etc! Thanks to Russell and Liz at Ticonderoga for everything and to Lisa Hannett for the glorious cover and to Kaaron for being such a lovely author with
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At WorldCon
Tired, got a sore neck from whipping around to look at people and say ‘hello’. Book launch
this morning at 11am – huzzah! Must power-up before then.
The Demonic Suchi Drive-by: Gio Clairval
Gio Clairval is a multilinguinal, well-travelled, super-smart writer who commutes between Paris and Lake Como. She has blogged as a guest for Jeff VanderMeer (faaaaarrrr more intellectually than I) and her time in Malaysia as a management consultant provided the setting for Sushi for Demons. Watch this Read more…
The Sharp Drive-by: Marianne De Pierres
Marianne De Pierres is (a) prolific, (b) talented, (c) cross-genre, (d) all of the above. Discuss. No, wait, don’t. No point in discussing solid facts. She has written the best-selling Parrish Plessis SF series, the Sentients of Orion series, the crime series chronicling the adventures of the kick-ass Tara
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The Drive-by from Orion: Brendan Fredericks
Brendan Fredericks is a publicist with the Orion Division of Hachette Australia – one day, when you’re a rich famous best-selling author, you may be lucky enough to have someone like him on book tour with you. Brendan has been aide-de-camp to the likes of Richard Morgan, Alastair
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A Drive-by from Coode Street: Jonathan Strahan
As an editor and anthologist Jonathan Strahan is recidivist*. He is compulsively nominated for Hugos and World Fantasy Awards – he’s on the World Fantasy shortlist again this year for Eclipse 3. For a fullsome bibliography, you must go here – it reads like The King’s Library. There are various Year’s
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The Cursebreaking Drive-by: Kyla Ward
Kyla Ward has been short-listed for Ditmars and Aurealis Awards for the stories ‘Kijin Tea’ and ‘The Bat’s Boudoir’. Her short stories have been published in venues which include Shadowed Realms, Agog!, Borderlands, Scary Kisses and Passing Strange – and her poetry has appeared in Bloodsongs and Abbadon. She is
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