Monthly Archives: October 2011
Jacaranda Time
On the bus this morning I noticed the jacaranda trees all in lovely bloom along Coronation Drive. Made me a bit homesick for my giant jacaranda tree in the backyard at the old house. Is it wrong
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If you only listen to one Writer & Critic this year …
… make it this one – Kirstyn and Ian talk about Lisa Hannett’s Bluegrass Symphony and Robert Shearman’s Everyone’s Just So So Special.
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Win a hard cover copy of A Book of Horrors
Okay, so now that this beautiful, disturbing book has been launched at FantasyCon in Brighton last weekend, it’s time to run this competition. T’will run for a week from today.
The all important question is located here – to
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Today, I try an experiment
Thursdays and Fridays are my stay-at-home-and-write days. My normal process is to have breakfast with Significant Other, wave him off to work, yell at the eejits on morning tv for about 30 mins before I turn
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Cheeky Frawgs and Honey
Squeee!
The Cheeky Frawg ebook empire has officially released Amal El-Mohtar’s wonderful The Honey Month.
It can be found here.
Other titles will be coming soon, including:
The Troika by Stepan Chapman (novel)
ODD? edited by Ann & Jeff VanderMeer
It Came
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Is it wrong that …
… on the bus ride home from doing the groceries I glanced out the window and saw a workman with his head down an access hole in the footpath, legs and bum in the air … and all I could do was hope with an intense hope to see tentacles rising up out of said hole and pulling him in?
No
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For your listening pleasure
The delightful and talented Bob Kuhn, who did readings for a bunch of Australian and NZ authors at the WorldCon in Reno this year was kind enough to record my story ‘Skin’.
So lovely to hear someone
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Margo Lanagan: A More Moderate Commentator than I
The lovely Margo also appears at FableCroft talking about small/indie press.
She is more moderate than I.
Where I wave my arms about, gesticulating wildly, Margo gestures gently. Where I stand on a soap box ranting, she puts the soap
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In the mailbox from Gollancz
Nalini Singh’s latest Guild Hunter novel, Archangel’s Blade.
Purdy.
Thanks, Gollancz.
Today at FableCroft, I commit a rant
… or something closely related to one as I opine on small/indie press.
Introductory Caveat
Let me start out by saying that over the past six years I’ve worked with and encountered a lot of small and indie presses, both in the Land of Oz and overseas. So, this is not directed at anyone in particular – although if
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