Tag Archives: Alan Baxter
Over at ThrillerCast, I say stuff …
… the delightful and charming Alan Baxter and David Wood ask me questions about short stories, stakes, fairytales, flensing and the Highlighters of Doom.
On occasion, I swear. Keep your small children away.
Be warned.
T’is
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A great Tuesday Therapy post
T’is here at the Hannettorium.
Veni, Vidi, Flensi
Or Angeline Latin for I came, I saw, I flensed.
Alan Baxter tells the story of having a story flensed by at the Brains’ Flensing Boot Camp run by Lisa Hannett and Angela Slatter.
Brace yourselves.
flense verb, flensed,
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Kapow! Thwack! Zok!
One of the things I am constantly at pains to get students and new writers to understand is the physics of your characters’ actions. That is: can they physically do what you’re telling the reader
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Reading in Reno (less dangerous than Reading Lolita in Tehran and more fun)
At this year’s WorldCon in Reno, the most excellent voice-over artist Bob Kuhn (the voie of Tolkien’s Dragon!) will be doing some of us an enormous favour: he’ll be doing readings for Aussie and NZ authors who can’t make it to the con.
He’ll be doing readings for awesome folk from the HaprerVoyager stable : Fiona McIntosh, Mary
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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!).
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
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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
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