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Black-Winged Angels, Sourdough, and The Girl With No Hands are available now. Find where you can buy them.
And now featured in the upcoming Stephen Jones anthology: A Book of Horrors.
Tag Archives: kim wilkins
Drive-by from the Queen: Kim Wilkins
The prolific Dr Kim Wilkins was kind enough to be one of my drive-by victims. She sold her first novel, The Infernal, in 1997 and it promptly won an Aurealis Award. She’s been writing ever since and her tally includes Grimoire, Angel of Ruin, Giants of the Frost, Rosa
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WorldCon Schedule
Huzzah!
The program is now up at AussieCon 4!
Make plans, take notes, plot strategically – learn where the bar is on the first day and stake a claim on your favourite chair.
My con obligations are below:
Fri 1100 Rm 203: (Book Launch) Dead Sea Fruit/The Girl with No Hands.
Kaaron Warren,
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Tagged angela slatter, aussiecon 4, Bill Congreve, book launch, cory doctorow, David D. Levine, Directions in Australian horror, Haigh’s chocolate frogs, Honey Brown, kaaron warren, kim wilkins, Robert Silverberg, Russell Farr, Stuart Mayne, The Girl with No Hands & OtherTales, ticonderoga publications, To market: how to sell your short stories., trent jamieson
Meanwhile, over at Ecstatic Days
Tagged chocolate, ecstatic days, kim wilkins, neil gaiman, rejections, submissions
Highly Useful Courses
The Queen herself, Kim Wilkins, is teaching for QWC again. All hail!
There’s the Express Year of the Novel, the Year of the Edit and the Year of the Novel Online (YONline 3). The first two are members only courses, but the third can be done by anyone, anywhere, with access to t’internet.
Go here for a look-see http://www.qwc.asn.au/Shop/List/1.aspx
Writers and Money
Having had the pain a couple of weeks ago of listening to a newbie writer complaining ‘Why do we need to know this business stuff?” I’m gonna plug this issue right now.
WQ has put out The Money Issue – this is why you need to
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Tagged kim wilkins, the money issue, wq
Hit the ZOMG Button!
This was one of my fave books when it came out – it was set in Brisneyland and it was creepy. I’ve had 3 copies of it and have leant them all out and never seen the damned things again.
I will be getting one of these and NO ONE is borrowing it. NO ONE!
KIM WILKINS
WINNER OF 2 AUREALIS AWARDS
Australian musician
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The Dead Path – Again
So, I’ve been released from some of my more onerous editing duties (briefly) and I’ve been able to pick up Stephen M Irwin’s The Dead Path again.
I’m halfway through after a day of varied ‘stuff’ (including Write-Club), but I’ve been reading steadily.
And it’s freaking awesome!! Not only is the gentleman in question the nicest man in Australian horror, he’s also a
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Tagged kim wilkins, stephen m irwin, the dead path, the infernal
The Awesome Kim Wilkins on The Science of Editing and Autopsying Puppies
Kim Wilkins is not only annoyingly talented, productive and good-looking, she’s also very, very clever on matters of writing and such. So have a look at this for some most excellent hints and advice on editing.
The science of editing
I’ve just finished my first edit of “Field of Clouds” and the whole process went really well. Now it’ll go off to my
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On the (ig)Noble Art of Sacrifice
My clever friend, Kim Wilkins (beautiful talented successful writer, academic, award-winner, mother of two – hate her yet? http://fantasticthoughts.wordpress.com/) made a comment today that got me thinking (sometimes it happens, me thinking). On FB last night, I said I was going to bed with the editing, and she commented that she sometimes read my status updates and
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Home from NatCon and here are the Ditmars
Results of the Ditmars are below … more comments will follow about NatCon, but that will be tomorrow when my brain is talking to me again … I only got off the plane an hour ago.
A. Bertram Chandler Award
Rosaleen Love
William Atheling Jr Award for Criticism and Review
Kim Wilkins, an article about Australian fantasy fiction in the Journal of Australian
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