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Dreaming in the Dark

final-dreaming-in-the-dark-master-tweaked-af-colour-baloon-option-72-26-oct-16While I’m bombarding you, I may as well mention the new Dreaming in the Dark anthology, edited by the delightful Jack Dann.

This is the first cab off the rank for PS Australia (PS Publishing’s arm here in Oz), and features
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A Feast of Sorrows – In My Hands, However Briefly

Got my paws on a physical copy – my sister’s, alas, so I had to sign it and give it back!

And so I wait (im)patiently by the mailbox, waiting for my author copies to went their way across the sea, schlepped by very tired and overworked carrier pigeons.

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A Feast of Sorrows – Starred Review in PW!

FeastofSorrows_Cov_V01 A Feast of Sorrows: Stories

Australian speculative fiction author Slatter’s U.S. debut is a compilation of her most notable stories along with several new ones, all of which showcase
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A Feast of Sorrows: Stories …

FeastofSorrows_Cov_V01… is almost here. It will be out next month! You can pre-order it.

Ze blurb:

A Feast of Sorrows — Angela Slatter’s first U.S. collection — features twelve of the World Fantasy and British Fantasy Award-winning Australian
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A Feast of Sorrows available for pre-order

FeastofSorrows_Cov_V01Yes, as per the heading, my first ever US collection A Feast of Sorrows: Stories is available for pre-order.

While it’s mostly a reprint collection of fairy tales and Sourdough/Bitterwood world stories, the important thing to note
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Tender Tales: Margo Lanagan

Photo by Adrian Cook

Photo by Adrian Cook

Margo Lanagan should need no introduction, but I’ll give her one anyway. Or rather, I’ll snurch this one from the Allen & Unwin website: Margo Lanagan is an internationally acclaimed writer
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Contact Made, stuff won

Lisa & I with our Ditmars, mine is backwards because: Angela

Lisa & I with our Ditmars, mine is backwards because: Angela

Over Easter weekend we attended Contact2016 in Brisneyland and it was one of the cons Ive enjoyed most in my life as a writer. It was great fun to
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Aurealis Shortlists

AA-logoThe Aurealis Awards shortlists have been announced. Happy to note that “Ripper” and “Of Sorrow and Such” are both finalists (for Horror novella and Fantasy novella respectively). Sad to see the Horror Novel category apparently continues to be problematic. Not sure why.
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2015 Rundown and highlights

Well, this post is only about six weeks late. Not too shabby. Not too shabby at all. I’ll mix the WFC post with a 2015 rundown post, methinks, and get it all out of the way in one fell swoop.

So, 2015: stuff happened.

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Still-life with Awards

All the awards together

All the awards together

So, I went off to Canberra for the Aurealis Awards (their twentieth anniversary) and, no matter what else happened, it was always going to be about catching up with folks, especially my
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