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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 2011
The Graveyard Dalek
With great power comes great responsibility.
On Thursday, Peter M Ball and I reconvened for our first write-club in almost 6 weeks. During the initial hour – which is when we eat pancakes and bacon and talk ‘shop’ – we decided that the very talented
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It’s only a matter of time …
… before Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer will be trying to get into this guy’s parties … bring bribery cab sav and larcenous brioche … and those little circles of black bread with a schmeer of cream cheese and the world’s thinnest slice of smoke salmon on top with only an anorexic caper to keep it
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How have I missed this?
I don’t know how I missed this, but consider myself dreadfully remiss. Brain (Lisa L Hannett) did a post on fairy tale girls, which is great. And here in all its clever glory.
A sample:
Lately, I’ve been thinking about fairy tales.
There
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The Naked Drive-by: Bella Vendramini
And now for something completely different. We leave the field of spec-fic for a day and peek into the world of actress and author, Bella Vendramini. Naked in Public is the follow-up to her best-selling debut Biting the Big Apple. I think the press release says
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Sale!
Kapow! Thwack! Zok!
One of the things I am constantly at pains to get students and new writers to understand is the physics of your characters’ actions. That is: can they physically do what you’re telling the reader they are doing? He scratched his backside with his right hand, while
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The Girl with No Hands and Kindling
Wait, that sounds wrong. And dangerous.
What I’m trying to say is that The Girl with No Hands and Other Tales (Aurealis Awarded for 2010 Best Collection) is now available as an ebook … or at least as one for the Kindle.
It can be purchased
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