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The Australian Shadows Awards
I’m delighted to hear that The Cold House has won the Paul Haines Award for Long Fiction ( so basically Best Horror Novella).
Congrats to all the finalists and winners, and a huge thanks to the organisers and judges for all their hard
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Diablo Immortal
Sometimes, I get to do very cool things – this is one of them!
I wrote this one-shot for Blizzard’s Diablo Immortal.
Thanks to the folks at Blizzard Entertainment, especially Megan Walker for reaching out and asking if I wanted
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No Gen AI
Art by Kathleen Jennings
I have been writing for 22 years. This is my career. It’s how I put bread on the table and pay my bills with something that might, in a dim room, be mistaken for regularity.
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Fitcher’s Bird
My beautiful new novella arrived in the mail today! Fitcher’s Bird has a glorious cover by Andy Bodrenkova and a lovely hardcover with silver lettering on the spine. Australia will get paperbacks first in October this year – the hardcovers will arrive a few months after the UK and US get theirs. Sorry!
Happy Book Birthday to me!
At last!! The Sourdough collections are all back out in the world and collected together as The Sourdough Compendium, a weighty tome. They’re in the chronological order, rather than the order I wrote them, so I’ll be interested to see how people experience the reading this time around. 
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Cover Reveal: Our Lady of Battles
Last night the fabulous @mother.horror did the cover reveal for next year’s Sourdough world novel, Our Lady of Battles. 
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Shirley Jackson Awards – shortlists
The Shirley Jackson Awards shortlists are out and I’m delighted to see that The Cold House is shortlisted for Best Novella!
The full listings are here. Congrats to all the finalists.
SwanCon and Perth stuff
Belatedly! I’m in Perth.
This evening Kathleen Jennings and I did a great in-conversation – well, we enjoyed it – at the Melville Library. Many thanks to everyone for coming along, to the library for hosting s,
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The Path of Thorns – US Limited Edition
Look at this glorious thing! This is the US Limited Edition of The Path of Thorns, with cover and internal artwork by the amazing Daniele Serra! Published by Thunderstorm Books, it’s now available for pre-order here until 18 April
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Brian Froud’s Green Women
Announcement at last!
I’m delighted and honored to have contributed to this beautiful book of paintings by the most excellent Brian Froud!
You should absolutely preorder it. Read more…