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Black-Winged Angels, Sourdough, and The Girl With No Hands are available now. Find where you can buy them.
And now featured in the upcoming Stephen Jones anthology: A Book of Horrors.
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Vote! Vote for Lisa L Hannett!
For the Campbell. Lisa’s in her second year of eligibility for the John W Campbell Award for best new writer. She needs your vote. This is her self-effacing post. Ignore the humble-osity: she is awesome. She is one of the best writers you will
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2010: The Year in Review, or 2011: The Year Ahead
It’s a Saturday morning and I’m sitting on the couch, surveying the remains of yesterday’s shred-fest (I cleaned out the spare room, which used to be my study) and waiting for the coffee to kick in. It seems as a good a time as any to review last
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Tagged "Sun Falls", "The Curious Case of Physically-Manifested Bedsheet Mania & Other Tales”, aussiecon 4, Australis Imaginarium, brisneyland by night, Catherynne M Valente’s The Orphan’s Tales (both volumes), Dead Red Heart, dead sea fruit, dr who, eff and Ann VanderMeer's Steampunk II: Steampunk Reloaded, fabelcroft, Genevieve and the Dragon, helen mirren, Holy Black’s White Cat and Elizabeth Bear’s New Amsterdam, innsmouth free press, james findlay, kaaron warren, Lisa L Hannett, Many Brisbanes, Maureen McHugh’s China Mountain Zhang, Midnight and Moonshine, One Book, red, rising not dreaming, Robert Shearman’s Love Songs for the Shy and Cynical, Scary Kisses, sisters, sourdough and other stories, sprawl, stepen moffat, swancon, Tansy Rayner Roberts’s Siren Beat, the february dragon, The Girl with No Hands and Other Tales, the jacaranda wife, ticonderoga publications, twelfth planet press, Well of Souls and Gate of the Dead, Worlds Next Door
Some more WorldCon photos
Courtesy of El Diablo Flinthart http://flinthart.livejournal.com/123150.html.
Tagged aussiecon 4, dirk flinthart, photos, world con
All the pretty shinies
At WorldCon, one of the most delightful tables in the dealers’ room belonged to Dark Nouveau, pretty shinies, etc. I got an awesome birthday
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Pre-Hugos Party
Cat Sparks’ (or Sparks’s – there’s been argument on FB) fabulous collection of photos from AussieCon4 live here.
This is my fave – at the pre-Hugos drinks with my friends Aimée Lindorff and Lisa Hannett.
Tagged Aimée Lindorff, aussiecon 4, cat sparks, hugos, lisa hannett, orbit
The Cursebreaking Drive-by: Kyla Ward
Kyla Ward has been short-listed for Ditmars and Aurealis Awards for the stories ‘Kijin Tea’ and ‘The Bat’s Boudoir’. Her short stories have been published in venues which include Shadowed Realms, Agog!, Borderlands, Scary Kisses and Passing Strange – and her poetry has appeared in Bloodsongs and Abbadon. She is
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Why, yes, I am having a little freak-out
It’s the day before I fly to Melbourne for WorldCon. Between me and the plane are several hours of work-related work, packing, writing-related work, reading practise, and general trying-not-to-forget-anythingness. So, this is me:
Tagged aussiecon 4, lolcats, worldcon
WorldCon Schedule
Huzzah!
The program is now up at AussieCon 4!
Make plans, take notes, plot strategically – learn where the bar is on the first day and stake a claim on your favourite chair.
My con obligations are below:
Fri 1100 Rm 203: (Book Launch) Dead Sea Fruit/The Girl with No Hands.
Kaaron Warren,
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Is It Too Much …
… for me to want Haigh’s choclit to sponsor Kaaron Warren’s (http://kaaronwarren.wordpress.com/) and my book launch at WorldCon? In Melbourne? In September?
Or, y’know, just be bubbling through the choclit fountain?
Good Lord, Where Have I Been?
Struggling, I think.
The deadline to get Brain’s and my pieces in for Steampunk Reloaded was so tight … how tight? It was like trying to shoehorn an elephant into a narrow-fitting stiletto.
Sooo, when we finished and sent it off, the sense of enormous satisfaction lasted about a day … then the sense of “shouldn’t I be writing something really fast
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