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NetGalley: The Path of Thorns
The Path of Thorns is now available for bona fide reviewers to request on NetGalley.
Asher Todd is employed as a governess to the mysterious Morwood family. But she has secrets of her own, dark and terrible –
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Shortlistings ahoy!
I’m delighted to say that the shortlists for the Aurealis Awards were announced today and as well as seeing a lot of excellent friends on the list I also found that All the Murmuring Bones is a finalist for Best Fantasy Novel, and The Tallow-Wife and Other Tales for Best Collection.
And The Tallow-Wife is also a finalist for the
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Interview – Narrative Species
Over at Narrative Species I had a chat with the delightful Rick Kleffel about the Sourdough world and my stories set there … You can listen here if you’re so inclined.
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Limited Edition of All the Murmuring Bones
The lovely limited edition of All the Murmuring Bones is now available from the wonderful Tartarus Press. There are only 300 copies of these, so when this edition’s gone, it’s gone. (There are, of course, the gorgeous paperbacks
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Cover Reveal: The Path of Thorns
Hello, my poor neglected blog (yet again).
Just popping in here to show off my lovely new cover for The Path of Thorns, which is due out in June of 2022 from Titan Books. Big thank you to Tor.com for hosting the reveal and you can click here for an excerpt!
All the Murmuring Bones: Reviewers!
Hi, All.
All the Murmuring Bones, my first novel for Titan Books, will be out on or about 9 March 2021 (in Aus, the UK and the US). It’s a gothic fantasy set in the world of the Sourdough and Bitterwood mosaic collections (from Tartarus Press).
Titan will have the novel up at NetGalley in the new year, so if you’re a
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New Two-Book Deal!
Art by Kathleen Jennings
I’m absolutely delighted to say that, thanks to the excellent work of my beloved agent Meg Davis (Ki Agency), I’ve signed a two-book deal with Cath Trechman of Titan Books.
The novel currently known as Blackwater
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Morwood
I’ve hit the halfway point on my new novel, Morwood, so I thought I’d share the first chapter and the piece of art that inspired the story. This painting is by Ruth Sanderson and I first saw it at WFC in
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Blackwater
As always art by Kathleen Jennings coz wolves and candlesticks and pouffy skirts …
So, I spent most of last year and the first few months of this year working on a novel called Blackwater. It’s a gothic fantasy
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New Novel
So, I’ve started writing a new novel, Morwood.
Like Blackwater it’s a gothic fantasy set in the Sourdough/Bitterwood world, and I’m at the stage where I love it. It’s new and pretty and we’re in our honeymoon period.
Here’s a first draft
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