Category Archives: Pimping/Promoting!

In which there are critters …

Over at Shared Worlds, a group of us were give the chance to ‘choose our critter’ and write a little history for it. I made up Cloud-Bibbles, Lavie Tidhar introduces the world to Zoltar and Neil Gaiman’s Shadder is standing right behind you.

There are
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Woot – first sale of 2012!

Very happy to announce that Lisa Hannett’s and my story “Prohibition Blues” has sold to Liz and Amanda at Ticonderoga Publications for the awesome and upcoming anthology Damnation and Dames.

There are shoes, werewolves, the Charleston, feathers, chases through swamps, folk with mixed human-Fae blood who can do some marvellous
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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!

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FableCroft! Books! Sale! Christmas Presents!

FableCroft is moving interstate and they are having a HUGE sale. You’re looking for Christmas presents, right? You can’t go wrong with a FableCroft book!

Go here!!

Now!!

Or I will add more ‘!!!’!

I’ll be checking on you.

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Laaaauuuuunnnnccchhhheeedddd

The Bluegrass Symphony has had a bottle of champers broken over it and is officially launched. Lovely intro by Russell B. Farr, truly glorious speech from the delightful Sean Williams, and a wondrous reading by the author herself, Miz Lisa L Hannett (and her awesome red boots). Great night had by all. Included the final pic
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Blasphemia’s Closet Needs You

Just fabulous, go here!

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It’s only a matter of time …

… before Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer will be trying to get into this guy’s parties … bring bribery cab sav and larcenous brioche … and those little circles of black bread with a schmeer of cream cheese and the world’s thinnest slice of smoke salmon on top with only an anorexic caper to keep it
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The Girl with No Hands and Kindling

Wait, that sounds wrong. And dangerous.

What I’m trying to say is that The Girl with No Hands and Other Tales (Aurealis Awarded for 2010 Best Collection) is now available as an ebook … or at least as one for the Kindle.

It can be purchased
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A Book of Horrors News! A Competition! Special Drive-by Fridays! Otters!

And so, you may have noticed (if you’re especially perspicacious and of a noticing bent – well done, have a jelly baby) another page has been added to this site. Specifically, t’is a site dedicated to A Book of Horrors, the new anthology edited by uber-editor,
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The Secret is out at last and I can stop being mysterious

At last! I can talk about this!!

Legendary editor Stephen Jones has announced his new project, an anthology of original, commissioned horror stories. A Book of Horrors has the cover below (quiver), and my story ‘The Coffin-maker’s Daughter’ in it!

And this ToC:

INTRODUCTION: WHATEVER HAPPENED TO
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