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Like Chicken Man
I am apparently everywhere, including Booklife.
The short story isn’t dead, it’s just _________?
Angela Slatter: Fighting a vigorous rearguard action against big publishers who don’t see any money in selling short story collections unless they’re attached to big name authors. I do think it’s a form that’s
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Alisa K visits Ecstatic Days
(And is smart enough not to accept raisin danishes from Evil Monkey.)
Alisa Krasnostein is editor and publisher at Twelfth Planet Press, an Australian indie press for fresh, new speculative fiction. She is also Executive Editor of the review website ASif!, member of Not if You Were the Last Short Story on Earth and part of the podcasting team
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Blogsitting at Ecstatic Days
I’m one of the folk blogsitting for Jeff VanderMeer over at Ecstatic Days.
General Rules for blogsitting:
1. Water the plants;
2. Don’t break the good china or crystal;
3. Don’t drink the cellar dry and replace all the wine with red cordial;
4. Don’t get eaten by the cats and never, ever trust what the monkey tells you.
Over the next few weeks …
… I’ll be guest blogging over at Jeff VanderMeer’s Ecstatic Days. This will involve, much as this blog does, random thoughts and hopefully something useful and amusing. Unlike this blog, over there I have to deal with Evil Monkey and three cats.
Read more…We’re All Strangers Here: Deborah Biancotti and Baggage
Deborah Biancotti has done the world a favour by writing. She’s won Aurealis Awards and Ditmars. Her short story collection, A Book of Endings (Twelfth Planet Press), has garnered attention both in Oz and overseas, and has bagged awards and recommendations ad infinitum (Look! Here’s a list http://deborahbiancotti.net/the/press/book_of_endings.htm), and been named on Guru of the Weird, Jeff VanderMeer’s Locus Online
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Over at Locus Online
Jeff VanderMeer gives the royal sampler for 2009, including some nice things about Dreaming Again and New Ceres Nights.
http://www.locusmag.com/Reviews/2010/02/jeff-vandermeer-on-best-of-2009.html
Jeff VanderMeer's The Quickening
Some VanderFiction over at Ecstatic Days:
In the old, tattered photo Sensio has been dressed in a peach-colored prisoner’s uniform made out of discarded tarp and then tied to a small post that Aunt Etta made me hammer into the ground. Sensio’s long white ears are slanted back behind his head. His front legs, trapped by the crude arm holes, hang
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On Self-Publishing
On Self-Publishing
I get a lot of questions in my day job about self-publishing. People increasingly see it as a means of getting around the traditional big publishing companies. In a lot of cases it can mean taking advantage of technology to get your book out there. You may go to a
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