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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: On Writing: Short Stories
China Miéville in Da Lair
Greetings and welcome, one and all, to the inaugural Lair of the Evil Drs Brain, where we “invite” (i.e. conduct virtual kidnappings of) other writers and artists for a chat (which occurs right after they stop demanding to be released and saying ‘Who are you and why I am in
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Tagged A Clockwork Orange, Alfred Bester, barbara comyns, David Malouf, Embassytown, george orwell, Golem 100, iron council, kathleen jennings, king rat, kraken, Perdido Street Station, Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban, stephen fry, the city and the city, The Left Hand of Darkness, The Only Speaker of His Tongue, the scar, UnLunDun, ursula le guin
The Runes of Odin Drive-by: Ben Julien
Ben Julien is an ex-Brisbane boy and writer, now Canberra transplant. He’s also a dad, a Clarion South survivor and the author of the Runes Saga (of which you can read an extract here). He blogs over at Narrated
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The Nightsiders Drive-by: Sue Isle
WA author Sue Isle is the author of the YA fantasy Scale of Dragon, Tooth of Wolf. She is an Aurealis and Ditmar nominee, as well as an Aurealis winner for Best Fantasy Short Story with “The Woman of Endor”. Her short stories have appeared in Orb, ASIM,
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Snoopy Dancing news
Great news the other day: I finished (at last!) my first piece of fiction since I submitted my brain-shredding PhD. The idea occurred to me about 4 weeks post-PhD but then it took me about 7 weeks to finally get everything on paper and then edited and polished
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The Fire and Thorns Drive-by: Rae Carson
Rae Carson dabbled in many things from teaching to corporate sales to architecture before becoming a full-time writer. The Girl of Fire and Thorns is her first novel. She lives in Columbus, Ohio, with her husband and stepsons.
Rae’s debut novel is creating a buzz,
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The Isis Unbound Drive-by: Allyson Bird
Allyson is the one on the left …
Allyson Bird lives in New Zealand with her husband and youngest daughter. Occasionally she is drawn to strange places and people, and they are occasionally drawn to her. Her favourite playground, as a child and adult, has been the village graveyard.
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Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror 2011 edition
It’s here! Finally it has arrived!
Huzzah! *snoopy dance*
‘Brisneyland by Night’ is happily nestled between Jay Lake’s ‘Mother’s Urban Booke of Dayes’ and Neil Gaiman’s ‘The Thing About Cassandra’.
Thanks, Paula Guran and Sean Wallace!
The Liff Drive-by: Rob O’Connor
Rob O’Connor is not only one of the most talented, amusing and quirky cartoonists you’ll ever come across, he also works at the Very Wonderful Liquid Interactive. He is one of my oldest friends and carries with him a series of stories that reflect either badly
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Tagged art, cartoons, comics, graphic novels, life, liquid animation, neil gaiman, robert o'connor
The Tree Drive-by: Mary Victoria
Mary Victoria has lived EVERYWHERE … or at least in Cyprus, Canada, Sierra Leone, France, the USand the UK. She finally settled in New Zealand, where she writes full time and has produced the wonderful Tymon’s Flight, Samiha’s Song and Oracle’s Fire for the HarperVoyager imprint. She studied
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The Yowie Drive-by: Thoraiya Dyer
Thoraiya (rhymes with Himalaya) Dyer is one of the Australian spec-fic scene’s up-and-comers. She is one of TPP’s Twelve Planets, the author of Edward Teach (TPP), a vet and an Aurealis Award winning author (“Yowie” from Sprawl). Her work has also appeared in After the Rain (FableCroft), and
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