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Nice reviews

Why the couch? I'm just a bit sleepy.

The Entropy Pump (cool name) reviews The Girl with No Hands and Other Tales here.

Jildy Sauce reviews Sourdough and Other Stories here and kindly notices the mosaic nature of the book!

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Interesting post over at Salon.com

Charlize Theron as the Evil Queen in the new Snow White flick

From Emma Mustich over at Salon.com talks to the legendary Jack Zipes regarding the latest crop of fairy tale-inspired films. Be nice if someone bought one of my fairy tales and made it into a movie –
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Lovely review over at …

… Shades of Sentience of The Girl with No Hands and Other Tales – thanks guys.

There’s a good blend here, some being more horror whilst others being closer to fantasy. There were quite a few surprising endings too, where she either bucks the social norm, or invites us into a well known fairy-tale, then changes the ending on us. In
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The Girl with No Hands and Kindling

Wait, that sounds wrong. And dangerous.

What I’m trying to say is that The Girl with No Hands and Other Tales (Aurealis Awarded for 2010 Best Collection) is now available as an ebook … or at least as one for the Kindle.

It can be purchased
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She Never Slept says nice things …

… about The Girl with No Hands and Other Tales *blush*.

Over here.

Thanks, Ms Sarah. :-)

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For the eMinded amongst ye

The Girl with No Hands and Other Tales will soon be available as an ebook from Ticonderoga. 

Ahem. Why, yes, it is the book that won this year’s Aurealis Award for Best Collection.

Huzzah for downloading bookish thingies to technical, hand-held and portable whatsits! (The sound you hear is my Geeky Significant
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A wowie-kazowie review over at Crikey (no less)

A truly fabulous review of The Girl with No Hands and Other Tales* by guest reviewer Lyndon Riggall on Angela Meyer’s LiteraryMinded blog (she who is Queen of the Bloggeist). Thus, I do snoopy dance.

Snippet:

For those of you who will read The Girl With No Hands I will
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Shallow and Superficial

And thank you to Lisette, who says this cat reminds her of me -.-

Peter Tennant asked me the questions that gave me the opportunity to be “just as shallow and superficial as the rest of us” … so, in effect, an extended version of a drive-by  Read more…

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Writers on Rafts!!

This is QWC’s fundraising project to assist after the floods that have just rolled across Queensland with all the subtley of a rhino on heat.

Enter Writers on Rafts to win fabulous prizes donated by more than 150 Australian  authors, including Kate Morton, Morris Gleitzman, Di Morrissey,
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2010: The Year in Review, or 2011: The Year Ahead

It’s a Saturday morning and I’m sitting on the couch, surveying the remains of yesterday’s shred-fest (I cleaned out the spare room, which used to be my study) and waiting for the coffee to kick in. It seems as a good a time as any to review last
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