Tag Archives: The Girl with No Hands and Other Tales

The Girl with No Hands and Kindling

July 15, 2011 | News, Pimping/Promoting! | Comments Off

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 here for $4.99.

Thanks, publisher.

She Never Slept says nice things …

May 30, 2011 | News | 2 Comments

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

Over here.

Thanks, Ms Sarah. 🙂

For the eMinded amongst ye

May 25, 2011 | News | Comments Off

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
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A wowie-kazowie review over at Crikey (no less)

March 25, 2011 | News | 2 Comments

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
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Shallow and Superficial

February 18, 2011 | News | Comments Off

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
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Writers on Rafts!!

January 22, 2011 | News | Comments Off

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
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2010: The Year in Review, or 2011: The Year Ahead

January 8, 2011 | Cons, News, On Publishing, On Writing: General | 6 Comments

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.
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Remember when I said …

December 23, 2010 | News, On Publishing, On Writing: General | Comments Off

… that I would document my Smashwords journey? Well, I didn’t lie, but I did get distracted. Luckily, Alan Baxter prodded me with a sharp stick … the result is a guest post over at The Word, the first in a series … not a series with me, but with other far more erudite and interesting writers than I. Let’s
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In which I make a list and do a Snoopy Dance

December 20, 2010 | News | 2 Comments

Ellen Datlow listed both Sourdough and Other Stories and The Girl with No Hands and Other Tales on her Christmas List 🙂

You might consider buying one of two collections of stories by relative newcomer Angela Slatter: Sourdough (Tartarus) and The Girl with No Hands (and Other Tales) (Ticonderoga Publications). Many of Slatter’s stories are dark retellings of classic
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Tally-ho!

November 23, 2010 | Random | Comments Off

Spurred on by Aliette de Bodard’s counting – which is a good thing to do, to remind yourself what you’ve actually achieved in a year – I did some counting of my own for 2010:

2 x short story collections

5 x short stories in anthologies (2 of them with L L Hannett)

I’m okay with that.