Monthly Archives: July 2010
Bonus Drive-By: Charles Tan, the Bibliophile Stalker
It’s not stalking if you really love the person … that’s our story and we’re sticking to it.
If you’ve spent any time on t’internetz looking for useful information about the spec-fic scene chances are very, very good that you’ve come across the Bibliophile Stalker, aka Charles Tan. Charles is
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Head on over …
… to Basement Stories, where Issue 1 has a story by the lovely Rajan Khanna http://basementstories.org/index.html.
Flowing Shapes
The human came to She Shalu on the Day of Flowering Awareness. Damo met him near the Still Garden, the fumes of the
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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:
Intro to The Girl with No Hands …
… some lovely words from the awesome Jack Dann in his Introduction to The Girl with No Hands & Other Tales … here’s an excerpt (why, yes, I did include this bit coz he called me ‘young’):
Angela Slatter is a
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Cover-licious
Here’s teh covah for Kaaron Warren’s Ticonderoga collection, Dead Sea Fruit – gorgeous!
LL Hannett Strikes Again
The wonderful Lisa L Hannett has a story up over at the deliciously dark Chizine.
I saw early drafts of Their Own Executioners and it’s so coooooool to see it out in the world now it’s all grown up.
‘It’s not so bad there, most of the time.’
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On the Ancient and Secret Art of Formatting
There is a secret format that will help get you safely through slush piles, enchant your readers and make you the beloved of editors everywhere. It’s called ‘industry standard’ and it’s not hard to do:
Paper: use white A4 paper.
Spacing: double line spacing.
Font: 12 point font in either Courier
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Let there be Snoopy Dancing today!
Wooooooooooohooooooooooo!
Just saw that the delightful Rob Shearman is joint winner of the Shirley Jackson Award! Love Songs for the Shy and Cynical is wonderful – lyrical, gentle, achingly arch at times, and just plain wondrous at others.
BTW: Tiny Deaths won a World Fantasy award in 2008.
Couldn’t happen to
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Australis Imaginarium – cover and pre-ordery goodness
Oooooh, the cover at last. And the order-ish details are here http://fablecroft.com.au/australis-imaginarium/pre-order-australis-imaginarium
Basically, it’s a book of quintessentially Australian fables.
“Once a Month, on a Sunday” by Ian McHugh
“Night Heron’s Curse” by Thoraiya Dyer
“Hunter of Darkness, Hunter of Light” by Michael Pryor
“A Pig’s Whisper” by Margo Lanagan
“Stealing Free” by Deborah
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Scribe Fiction Prize – Huzzah!
It’s for old people! Well, people over 35 – as I’m one of ’em this makes me happy:
THE CAL Scribe Fiction Prize
Prize money increases to $15,000!
After the overwhelming success of the 2010 CAL Scribe Fiction Prize, Scribe Publications is thrilled to announce that the prize money for the CAL Scribe Fiction Prize 2011 will be increased to $15,000.
Once again, we
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