Tag Archives: Kirstyn McDermott
In which there is Shadowy Snoopy Dancing
The short list for the 2010 Australian Shadows Award has been released and it’s awesome to see names of some very talented friends there, including Peter M. Ball, Kirstyn McDermott, Liz Gryzb and Felicity Dowker.
I was lucky enough to get two mentions, one in Long Fiction for The Girl with No Hands and Other Stories (Ticonderoga Publications) and one in
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Have I Mentioned?
The Writer and the Critic podcasts?
Kirstyn McDermott and Ian Mond talk books.
In a smart fashion.
This week it’s The City and the City and The Windup Girl.
Here.
Go!
Oh, Squeeee! At long last: The Twelve Planets
Twelfth Planet Press has announced all their authors for the Twelve Planets series you may have seen me talk about here in the past. I’m so excited about the roll call for this project as it is made of awesome with some fabtastic sauce and glittery sprinkles
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Huzzah!
And now life is complete:
The Girl With No Hands and Other Tales has arrived.
It has an Intro by legendary Jack Dann, a cover design by the extraordinarily talented Lisa Hannett and Kirstyn McDermott says nice things on the cover :-). Below, you see it resting on – why, yes, it is resting on an eighteenth century fainting couch. Let there
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Friday's Drive-by: Jason Nahrung
Jason Nahrung is the other half of an Aussie spec-fic writing duo – the other half is Kirstyn McDermott. I’d love to say that, as a duo, they dress up at night and fight crime, but
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Pssssssst
Calling any and all Brisbanites (like Carrionites, but better with sun and less likely to ruin Shakespeare’s life – oh, watch Dr Who, for the love of …) who may be in the vicinity of Pulp Fiction Books (Shop 28-29, Anzac Square Arcade, Brisbane City) on 15th of September 2010 – yes, it’s early, let’s call it a ‘date claimer’ –
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ZOMG – Bookshelf Porn
This via Kirstyn McDermott … stopped any activity in the office for ages and ages as we ooooh’d and ahhhhh’d:
Today's Drive-By: Kirstyn McDermott, Duchess of Darkness
Kirstyn McDermott’s work has won Aurealis Awards, Ditmars, been anthologised in Best Of collections and garnered Honorable Mentions from the likes of Ellen Datlow. Her first book, Madigan Mine, is out very, very soon. It should be purchased and read as soon as possible. She recently wed
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