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Lovely Jo Fletcher Books are Lovely
As is the lovely Jo Fletcher herself. 😀
BFA Acceptance Speech
If I can get this technology to work, and for those who are a bit bored, here’s my acceptance speech for the British Fantasy Award. Those who saw me accept two Aurealis Awards a couple of years ago,
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One loves the smell of British Fantasy Awards in the morning
Much to my delighted surprise and suprised delight, “The Coffin-Maker’s Daughter” won 
the BFA for Best Short Story. This is especially nice when you consider the other short-listed works.
The full list of winners is available here and a
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Over at Mania.com …
… A Book of Horrors gets a great review from Tim Janson. 
How’s the US cover?
Go here to read the review.
Home and Huzzah
We’re home after a five week trip and this blog has been sorely neglected. A contrite series of catch-ups will be posted. Tomorrow, though, I must set aside my jetlag and related tendency to walk into
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And I woke up to …
… A BFSÂ short listing for “The Coffin-maker’s Daughter”. Thanks to Stephen Jones for including it in A Book of Horrors!
Huzzah!
And so, on a day with an otter …
… I also managed to make it onto the shortlist for the Aurealis Awards Best Horror Short Story, with “The Coffin-maker’s Daughter” (A Book of Horrors, Stephen Jones ed.).
I’m not saying the otter made it
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The Peripatetic Life of the Freelance Editor: in the Lair with Mr Stephen Jones
Today we have kidnapped the much lauded, applauded and awarded Mr Stephen Jones, editor of such tomes as A Book of Horrors, Zombie Apocalypse!, Shadows Over Innsmouth, and the Mammoth Books of Best New Horror, Vampires,
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I’m not a horror writer’s bootstrap
Yes, I know, strange saying, but it belong to my grandma Maisie and she was a font of strange sayings, many of which have been passed down to my mother, sister and I.
But back to my point –
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First Book of Horrors review
And what a review! Woot. *snoopy dance*
In the introduction to this collection Stephen Jones makes an impassioned plea to reclaim the horror genre from the gathering hordes of vapid vampires and cliched zombies “for those who understand and
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