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In Your Face
One of the excellent FableCroft Publishing’s 2016 projects is the In Your Face anthology, a collection of original and reprinted provocative spec-fic stories. The pozible campaign has reached its original goal (very quickly!), but there are stretch goals, people, so throw some spare shekels
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Focus 2014 Interviews: Cat Sparks
Today, Cat Sparks talks “The Seventh Relic” for the Focus 2014 interviews.
What was the inspiration for your story, The Seventh Relic?
I was researching the history of Buddhism as background for another story when the idea for this one
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Fablecroft’s Focus 2014: highlights of Australian short fiction
Fablecroft have released the ToC for their Focus 2014: highlights of Australian short fiction and I’m happy to say that “St Dymphna’s School for Poison Girls” is getting another outing, and in very good company too!
St Dymphna’s School for Poison Girls by Angela
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Cover and ToC Reveal: The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2014
Always happy to have stories (two!) in this glorious publication edited by Liz Grzyb and Talie Helene, and published by Ticonderoga Publications. The fifth volume of The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror has yet another gorgeous cover and, most importantly, can
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Australian Women Writers of Outstanding Horror and Dark Fantasy: A Not Quite Top Ten
Hecate by William Blake
So, I think we may have *just* missed Women in Horror month, but that shouldn’t stop you from checking out Lisa Hannett’s latest post over at This is Horror. Any time is a good time
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Conflux 2013
So, the Conflux program is now live.
This is the NatCon for 2013, so probably the biggest gathering the tribe will see in Oz this year.
I’m doing a late night panel on Old and New Fairy Tales (with Lisa Hannett, Leife
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Sydney Weekender
View from the Intercontinental
I’ve returned from a wonderful weekend in Sydney. Having lived there for four years at one point it was a bit weird to find that this time I felt like a foreigner there. Don’t know why – I
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Cover reveal – One Small Step
Behold, Amanda Rainey’s cover for FableCroft’s One Small Step anthology!
The Table of Contents has an awesome addition: Cat Sparks and her tale, “Daughters of Battendown” join the cast!
“Sand and Seawater” by Joanne Anderton & Rabia Gale
“Indigo Gold” by
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Speculative Fiction Festival 2013
And the program for the New South Wales Writers Centre Speculative Fiction Festival 2013 has just been released. An awesome line-up including Kate Forsyth, Juliet Marillier, Pamela Freeman, Kim Wilkins, Melina Marchetta, and Garth Nix.
It’s on Saturday 16 March; details
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Enter, Ishtar
One of the really delightful things about attending cons is that sometimes you get to go to book launches for books you really like, written by people you not only like, but also admire as writers.
So when Ishtar,
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