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Shiny, shiny awards suitable for hand to hand combat

Brain (Lisa L Hannett) and I arrived in Sydney on Friday and promptly indulged in our major vice: ordering room service. We talked until late, then woke up to more room service (What??)

Then we went for a walk on Saturday morning and wandered through the Pitt St mall
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Because the world needs more zombies

Ticonderoga Publications has just announced a new collection: that of the inimitable Jason “Everything can be improved by the addition of a zombie” Fischer! Jason is a Writers of the Future winner, a Clarion South survivor and the man who produced ‘Undead Camels Ate
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Good People, Good Cause, Awesome Book

The lovely and talented Lezli Robyn is raising funds to help her fiance Jamie to pay his really rather huge medical bills for his chemotherapy treatments. Russell B Farr of Ticonderoga Publications is pitching in by auctioning off some special copies of Lisa L Hannett’s forthcoming debut collection,
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Swancon Booty

Behold, the reasons why my luggage was so damned heavy on the way back from Perth … in addition to the books in the con showbag … and there may have been some clothing purchased too (shhhhhhh!).

Love and Romanpunk by Tansy Rayner Roberts. I mentioned this before in
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And then there was Swancon

Con Report – Part the First

Yes, at last I get around to writing my con report – past experience has shown that I tend to leave this for far too long and then end up writing something along the lines of ‘I went to [insert location here] and stuff happened and much of it was awesome’. This time I will
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Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror anthology – ToC

Oh my, the cover is so gorgeous I feel quite weak at the knees!

Liz Grzyb and Talie Helene, the eds, have done a fabulous job and the ToC is really rather swoonworthy!

RJ Astruc: “Johnny and Babushka” Peter M Ball: “L’esprit de L’escalier” Alan Baxter: “The King’s Accord” Jenny
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To the Swanconatorium!

Luckily I have raised my head from where it’s been buried in my PhD and noticed that next week is Swancon. It’s lucky coz I’m going and am on two panels while I’m there:

Fairytales in Today’s World with Angela Slatter, Ellen Datlow, Jenny Blackford, Richard Harland, Amanda Pillar,
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Aurealis Awards Shortlists are Out

Courtesy of the speedy good graces of Dr Tansy Rayner Roberts, the shortlists have been posted here.

I’m so happy to see so many talented friends on the lists! Includes (obviously) Lisa L Hannett, Kirstyn McDermott, Tansy RR, Trent Jamieson, Marianne De Pierres, Dirk Flinthart,
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Some Goodly News …

… to go with the site redesign (Thank you, Significant Other).

Nice review of Dead Red Heart over at Publishers Weekly, including a shout-out to my Sun Falls. Wooot!

And also good things about the next Scary Kisses anthology!

T’is here. And here.

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Pre-orders of Vampire Fiction from Oz

Dead Red Heart is ready for pre-order from here.

Lisa L Hannett! Felicity Dowker! Martin Livings! Alan Baxter! Jason Nahrung! Moi! And more, more, more!

ToC’ly goodness:

32 fantastic tales, 454 pages, over 130,000 words. All about vampires. This tome will be launched at the end of
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