Tag Archives: small beer press

Archivist Wasp: Nicole Kornher-Stace

nksThe first thing I read by Nicole Kornher-Stace was The Winter Triptych from Papaveria Press … which utterly stunned me. Winter. Queens. Ghosts. Roses. Castles. And that cover, oh that cover. Stunning writing, visceral imagery, a story that disturbed and
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The Black & White Drive-by: Holly Black

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
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Because I am …

… numerically challenged, I managed to schedule 2 drive-bys simaltaneously. So, today, please enjoy the drive-by stylings of Kelly Link & Gavin Grant and Jason Fischer.

Stranger Drive-bys Happen: Kelly Link and Gavin Grant

The creative writing and editing powerhouses behind Small Beer Press,  five Year’s Best Horror and Fantasy anthologies with Ellen Datlow, and young Miss Ursula Annabel Link Grant (among other creative endeavours), Kelly Link and Gavin Grant, mind-meld on some questions … which they may or may not have described as “damn
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Drive-by from Fairyland: Theodora Goss

Theodora Goss not only has a cool name, she’s the creator of some glorious prose. Her fiction includes the wonderful creation of Miss Emily Gray (whom I find vaguely sinister in a pleasing way) in her collection In the Forest of Forgetting. Her work has been published in
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Drive-by: Kathleen Jennings

Kathleen Jennings won the inaugural Kris Hemsbury Encouragement Award at this year’s Aurealis Awards. She writes, she illustrates, and she bakes – all these things she does superbly. And she is Queen of the Pikelets. She did beautiful illustrations for my Worlds Next Door story (FableCroft Press) and the below will give you some idea of her talent:

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