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Swancon Booty

Behold, the reasons why my luggage was so damned heavy on the way back from Perth … in addition to the books in the con showbag … and there may have been some clothing purchased too (shhhhhhh!).

Love and Romanpunk by Tansy Rayner Roberts. I mentioned this before in
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Pre-orders of Vampire Fiction from Oz

Dead Red Heart is ready for pre-order from here.

Lisa L Hannett! Felicity Dowker! Martin Livings! Alan Baxter! Jason Nahrung! Moi! And more, more, more!

ToC’ly goodness:

32 fantastic tales, 454 pages, over 130,000 words. All about vampires. This tome will be launched at the end of
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Coverlicious!

Behold. the cover for Dead Red Heart, the new Ticonderoga Publications compendium of vampire fiction … not fiction written by vampires … but fiction about vampires … the ToC is below and is exciting enough to make one tremble. Or is that just me?

At any rate, it’s definitely
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The Publishing Revolution: Part the Second

Alan Baxter continues his series inevstigating different viewpoints about the new world order of publishing. Guest #2 is Moriah Jovan.

A rose by any other name…

There’s been a lot of discussion lately about the definition of a “book,” or more specifically, the proper formatting of an e-book, and the definition of a “page” and its importance in
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Remember when I said …

… that I would document my Smashwords journey? Well, I didn’t lie, but I did get distracted. Luckily, Alan Baxter prodded me with a sharp stick … the result is a guest post over at The Word, the first in a series … not a series with me, but with other far more erudite and interesting writers than I. Let’s
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Smashwordery

Okay, so my first experiment in digital publishing is up at Smashwords.

T’is Black-Winged Angels, the short story collection of reloaded fairytales I wrote for my MA. We’ll see how this goes – i.e. how well I’ve managed to follow the technical’ish requirements (thanks to Alan Baxter for tips!) – and then Sourdough & Other Stories will be next.

My Significant Other did the
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A word from Alan Baxter

Over here, Alan Baxter contemplates the different ways of getting a reader in … grabbed by the throat or gently teased?

I’ve been thinking about the generally accepted premise that you need to grab readers in the first few lines of a story. I think for short fiction this is certainly true. You’re usually trying to get noticed in a slush
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I haz bin awarded …

… a Versatile Blogger award by the lovely Alan Baxter, he of RealmShift and MageSign.

Not quite sure what it means … perhaps I am now able to double as a lampshade or stylish throw rug … but I do like the thingy, it’s green
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On a more positive note …

… after my little spit about creepy people lacking in n’etiquette, here is something awesome.

Writer Alan Baxter reviews Sourdough & Other Stories over at his blog. I do believe this is the first review :-) .

I consumed this thing whole and it consumed me. Slatter’s
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