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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.
Category Archives: Cons
Swancon – Part Deux (or Stop Nagging Me, McDermott)
Part Two
On Friday morning we finally made it to the con proper (as opposed to simply being located in the same city and a bit around the block from it), we schlepped to the Hyatt and registered. There’s always a lovely sensation when you walk into a con hotel and see faces you don’t usually see except for a few
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Tagged Alisa Krasnostein, dirk flinthart, Ditmars and the Tin Ducks, ellen datlow, Helen Merrick, jason nahrung, Justin Ackroyd, justina robson, kaaron warren, kate eltham, Kirstyn McDermott, Paul Haines, peter m ball, richard harland, robert hoge, Robert Hood, sean williams, Stephen Dedman, swancon 2011, Tansy Rayner Roberts’ Love and Romanpunk, TPP’s Twelve Planets
And then there was Swancon
Con Report – Part the First
Yes, at last I get around to writing my con report – past experience has shown that I tend to leave this for far too long and then end up writing something along the lines of ‘I went to [insert location here] and stuff happened and much of it was awesome’. This time I will
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The Surreal Drive-by: Stephen J Clark
I always used to look at Tartarus Press covers and wonder idly about the lovely, creepy illustrations on the covers. Then I got the illustration for the cover of my very own Tartarus book andI learned where a lot of them came from – Stephen J Clark. His
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2010: The Year in Review, or 2011: The Year Ahead
It’s a Saturday morning and I’m sitting on the couch, surveying the remains of yesterday’s shred-fest (I cleaned out the spare room, which used to be my study) and waiting for the coffee to kick in. It seems as a good a time as any to review last
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Tagged "Sun Falls", "The Curious Case of Physically-Manifested Bedsheet Mania & Other Tales”, aussiecon 4, Australis Imaginarium, brisneyland by night, Catherynne M Valente’s The Orphan’s Tales (both volumes), Dead Red Heart, dead sea fruit, dr who, eff and Ann VanderMeer's Steampunk II: Steampunk Reloaded, fabelcroft, Genevieve and the Dragon, helen mirren, Holy Black’s White Cat and Elizabeth Bear’s New Amsterdam, innsmouth free press, james findlay, kaaron warren, Lisa L Hannett, Many Brisbanes, Maureen McHugh’s China Mountain Zhang, Midnight and Moonshine, One Book, red, rising not dreaming, Robert Shearman’s Love Songs for the Shy and Cynical, Scary Kisses, sisters, sourdough and other stories, sprawl, stepen moffat, swancon, Tansy Rayner Roberts’s Siren Beat, the february dragon, The Girl with No Hands and Other Tales, the jacaranda wife, ticonderoga publications, twelfth planet press, Well of Souls and Gate of the Dead, Worlds Next Door
Melbourne Writers Festival 2009 – A Flying Visit
Quick and dirty visit to Melberlin (actually, not dirty at all, not even slightly soiled; very, very clean and pristine visit).
Arrived Thursday night, checked into hotel at 9.30pm, ordered room service, sat in front of tv for a few hours channel surfing as my brain wound down like the clockwork monkey it is … kept thinking how I should take
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NatCon – or What I Did in Adelaide that Didn't Involve Frog Cakes
I arrived a day early, which was great because it meant I got to spend some time with the awesome La Belle Hannett, my fellow Clarionite and the other half of my brain. We found a cafe, Notcoffee (which provided much bacon) and talked; we talked a lot; then we talked a bit more. Her partner Dr Chad had cleverly
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Home from NatCon and here are the Ditmars
Results of the Ditmars are below … more comments will follow about NatCon, but that will be tomorrow when my brain is talking to me again … I only got off the plane an hour ago.
A. Bertram Chandler Award
Rosaleen Love
William Atheling Jr Award for Criticism and Review
Kim Wilkins, an article about Australian fantasy fiction in the Journal of Australian
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Adelaide is Cold, but my Toe is Not Broken
I am sitting in a cafe in Adelaide’s Rundle Street, in excellent company: LL Hannett, Peter Ball and Jason Fischer. The company had better be excellet for it is freaking freezing here! We’re all writing, at different speeds, but we are writing (with intermittant yelling of ‘Why have you stopped writing???’). This works well. The second toe on my left
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Tagged adelaide, jason fischer, ll hannett, natcon, peter ball, sean willaims, writing
NatCon! Or Why Did I Book Such an Early Flight??
Conjecture, aka the 48th Australian National SF Convention, will be occurring in Adelaide as of this Friday. GoH is the award-winning, best-selling (two words it’s always nice to see together, just like ‘choclit’ and ‘cake’ … mmm, wait, do the hyphenated words count as four words?) Julie E. Czerneda. Getting there will involve me getting out of bed at 4am tomorrow in order to
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Have I mentioned …
… the frog cakes? 
It’s a month only until I claim the 657 frog cakes in Adelaide that Jason Fischer has promised me.
There may also be some NatCon activity – a programme? Anyone? Oh, and Peter Ball’s novella Horn (Twelfth Planet Press) will be launched.
But mainly, there will
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