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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: September 2011
And another lovely review of Sourdough and Other Stories
… by Paul Charles Smith – over here. ‘Empty you heart of its mortal dream’ – that title should have a story attached to it! Mmmmmm.
Tartarus Press is a publisher best known for its lavish reprints of old obscure and out of print collections
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The Vend Drive-by: James Findlay
A graduate of the University of New South Wales Media Communications Degree, James Findlay has written and directed a variety of short films and documentaries over the years. His horror short, ZZZZ, screened in festivals around Australia and the UK, winning the Audience Award at the 2004 Eyescream
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Tagged Best Film of the Fest at the Very Short Movies festival in Hollywood, Best Short Film at the 23rd Annual St Kilda Film Festival, Eyescream Film Festival, james findlay, National Trasharama Film Fest, New South Wales Film and Television Office’s Young Filmmakers Fund, short films, sisters, the jacaranda wife, vend, zzzz
A Book of Horrors
Just a reminder that A Book of Horrors will be launched at Fantasy Con in Brighton on 1.10.11. There will be signings. There will be booky goodness.
And there will be a
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Tagged A Book of Horrors, angela slatter, brian hodge, Caitlin R. Kiernan, dennis etchison, elizabeth hand, john arjvide lindqvist, lisa tuttle, michael marshall smith, peter crowther, Ramsey Campbell, reggie oliver, Richard Christian Matheson, robert shearman, stephen jones, stephen king, stpehen jones
Before I head off into PhDery …
… a word from Sean Williams about indie press over at the lovely Fablecroft.
It seems strange now that there was ever a time when small press was thin on the ground in Australia, but in the early nineties publishers big and small had pretty much abandoned the field.
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Tagged fablecroft, indie press, sean williams
Squeeee!
Twelfth Planet Press will be opening, briefly, for novel submissions! TPP, the punchy indie press is home to Peter M. Ball’s Bleed and Horn, Tansy Rayner Roberts’ Love and Romanpunk, Lucy Sussex’s Thief of Lives … and to editor and publisher Alisa Krasnostein, who is a World Fantasy
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The Ditch Drive-by: Lisa Tuttle
American-born, UK-based Lisa Tuttle is writer of science fiction, fantasy, and horror as well as an editor and reviewer. She was the 1974 winner of the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, won the 1989 BSFA Award for Short Fiction for “In Translation”, and the 2007
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Yesterday in Maleny
Yesterday, I was due to do a reading at the Outspoken festival in Maleny (thanks to Steven Lang for the invite and Kate Eltham for the recommendation!), so Significant Other and I jumped in the car mid-afternoon for the drive up the Bruce Highway.
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The Broken Drive-by: Stephen M. Irwin
Stephen M. Irwin is a Brisbane-based writer of speculative fiction and an award-winning director and screenwriter – Car Pool won Best Comedy at the 2007 St Kilda Film Festival and in 2008 Ascension won Best Short, Sci-Fi London. His first novel, The Dead Path, was named a Top
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Sweet! Infinite Adaptations …
Happy-happy-joy-joy! In today’s mail is the latest WQ magazine – the Adaptation issue.
My excitement? Is caused by seeing the article I wrote about the enduring power of fairy tales.
Critic and writer Marina Warner says that old storytellers used to finish their stories with: ‘This is the tale
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Tagged angela slatter, fairy tale adaptations, marina warner, qwc, wq
Sunday afternoon listening
I just found out that the interview I did with Ion Newcombe in a dark and cold alley outside the Independant Theatre in Sydney after the Aurealis Awards in May. The bonus is that you also get to listen to some wonderful flash fiction and interviews with Jason
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