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At long last

Here it is, the damned thing. All bound and delivered to the postgrad office, with only one minor heart attack when I found the doors of said office closed. This is, of course, not the end. There will be final seminar in three weeks, then adding or subtracting
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The Wild Drive-by: Elspeth Cooper

Songs of the Earth is the first book of the Wild Hunt series and is also Elspeth Cooper‘s debut novel. T’is being compared with The Name of Wind and that cannot be a bad thing. US rights have been picked up by Tor and the second and third
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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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Major Squeeeeee

Just saw the galleys for The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2011, edited by Paula Guran and I couldn’t help but give a squeeeeee of excitement. Why, yes, it did scare some (okay, all) of my colleagues.

But it looks so awesome and I read over the beginnings of a few of the stories – Norman Partridge’s Lesser Demons OMG,
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World Fantasy Convention 2013

There will be a World Fantasy Convention in 2013. It will be in Brighton.

I will be going.

See you there.

Sure, November in Britain at the seaside isn’t everyone’s cup of tea … but that’s what warm, toasty, beer-filled bars are for.

More info lives here.

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The Literary Remains Drive-by: R. B. Russell

Ray Russell is the other half of Tartarus Press. He is a writer, publisher, illustrator and all-round nice guy. His work inlcudes the collections Putting the Pieces in Place and Literary Remains as well as the novella Bloody Baudelaire, all of which have met with
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Oh, Squeeee! At long last: The Twelve Planets

Twelfth Planet Press has announced all their authors for the Twelve Planets series you may have seen me talk about here in the past. I’m so excited about the roll call for this project as it is made of awesome with some fabtastic sauce and glittery sprinkles to
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Some Flood Photos

David went out a’walking and documenting the flood this afternoon …

Boardwalk near SLQ

Bike path and boardwalk at Toowong

Under the Go Between Bridge

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Drive-by: Amal El-Mohtar

Amal El-Mohtar is joint Queen of Goblin Fruit. She’s a poet, writer, and PhD student in Cornwall (a small envious voice in my head screams “Tintagel” every time I think of that, accurately or not). Her short fiction and poetry have been published in
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