Monthly Archives: June 2013
Where are my peeled grapes and bathtubs of champagne??
Which is a weird way of saying that last night I did a workshop at Indooroopilly Library and got pretty much the closest thing to rock star treatment I’ve ever received as a writer!
I had a lovely group of students who
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After Fight Club …
… or, as I referred to it when e-chatting with Lisa earlier, ‘Club Chuck’. My tired mind 
picked up on the two important elements and mashed them together like bugs on a windscreen, with the predictable degree of comprehension.
My point? Lisa Hannett’s
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Competition: Midnight and Moonshine
Sooooo, I’ve got a limited edition signed hardcover of Lisa’s and my collection/mosaic novel, Midnight and Moonshine. Details below …
The blurb:
The gods are dead, but will not be forgotten.
When Mymnir flees the devastation of Ragnarok, she hopes to escape all that
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Oh, Canada!
ChiZine have announced the ToC for this year’s Imaginarium anthology.
Lisa Hannett and I have a story in there (due to Lisa’s Canadianness and my status as someone standing next to a Canadian).
It’s the second Best Of outing for “Bella
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And the winner of Hair Side, Flesh Side is …
Thanks, Mentalfloss
… Derek Kunsken.
The Battle of Agincourt was won by the English, with the
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And the winner is …
… the lovely Thoraiya Dyer, who will take away the copy of Rise of the Fallen by Teagan Chilcott.
Here winning haiku:
Fanfic turned to cash
Draco renamed Jace; I beg you
Don’t describe his loins
Over at the Guardian: Science fiction and fantasy: the wonderful wizards of Oz
The Guardian has a look at the ’emergence’ of Australian SFF authors onto the international scene:
If your experience of Australian science fiction and fantasy is limited to Nevil Shute’s On the Beach and the Mad Max films, it’s time to take
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Talking Schlock
The lovely Teodor Reljic, the co-editor of Schlock Magazine was kind enough to ask me some interesting questions.
I did my best to answer them in an equally interesting fashion here.
Got Kindle? Kobo? Etc?
The Girl with No Hands and Other Tales is finally e-vailable over here.
Devoted Amazon folk, go here.
So if you’ve been holding off getting the hard copy due to reasons of postage costs, etc, then you could always
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A Killer Among Demons is now ‘e-vailable’
The new anthology from Dark Prints Press, A Killer Among Demons, is now available in e-form from the DPP website.
The cover is by the very talented Vincent Chong.
The ToC:Stephen M Irwin – ’24/7′ Angela Slatter – ‘Cuckoo’ William
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