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The Black & White Drive-by: Holly Black

October 5, 2011 | Drive-by Interviews, fairy tales, News, On Publishing, On Writing: General, On Writing: Short Stories, On Writing: The Novel | Leave a comment

Bestseller Holly Black writes contemporary fantasy novels for teens and children – but then, you know that.

She is the mum of the Spiderwick Chronicles (with award winning artist, Tony DiTerlizzi). Her first book came out in 2002, Tithe, followed by Valiant (2005) and Ironside (2007). Holly regularly spends
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Major Squeeeeee

May 31, 2011 | Uncategorized | 7 Comments

Just saw the galleys for The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2011, edited by Paula Guran and I couldn’t help but give a squeeeeee of excitement. Why, yes, it did scare some (okay, all) of my colleagues.

But it looks so awesome and I read over the beginnings of a few of the stories – Norman Partridge’s Lesser Demons OMG,
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Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror

March 13, 2011 | News | 8 Comments

Paula Guran has announced the ToC for the 2011 Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror … and Brisneyland by Night got a berth!!

Snoopy dancing? Who? Me? Maybe a little …

Look at those names on the cover … Hells, yeah, I iz snoopy dancing!

Margo Lanagan, Holly Black, Caitlín R.
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Reading with Extreme Pleasure …

June 1, 2010 | News, Random | 1 Comment

… I was handed a copy of Holly Black’s new book, White Cat, the other day. I haven’t read anything of hers before, but I know she’s a mate of Kelly Link and I regard Kelly Link as a deity, so I figured it would be ‘okay’.

It’s way better than ‘okay’ –
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First Rule of Write Club: Talk About Write Club

June 28, 2009 | On Writing: General | 9 Comments

My talented friend and writing buddy, Peter Ball (author of the rapidly becoming notorious novella Horn) and I have been conducting Write Club for nigh on two months now. This started out as a result of me whinging about my writer’s block and Pete regaling me with the tale of how Holly Black (Spiderwick Chronicles) and Kelly Link (Magic for
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