Monthly Archives: August 2010
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.
The Undead Camel Drive-by: Jason Fischer
Jason Fischer is a Writers of the Future winner, author of the imfamous Undead Camels Ate Their Flesh (in Jack Dann’s Dreaming Again), the Apocalyptic novella Gravesend (its follow-up is on the way – huzzah!), and he has
Read more…
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
Read more…
Announcementery
From Ticonderoga Publications comes the fabulous news that we shall see 2 more collections.
One for Lucy Sussex.
T’other for Felicity Dowker.
Nothing wrong with that at all! Huzzahs all round.
Ze anticipation is keeling me
This is me at the moment – or rather with more anticipation and less ribbons.
“Why?” I hear you ask.
“Well, coz peoples of my acquaintance in Oz (Melbourne to be specific) have received their copies of Sourdough and Other Stories and
Read more…
Why have I not done this before now?
I haz bin remiss.
The talented and prolific Marianne de Pierres has a short story collection out with Twelfth Planet Press, Glitter Rose. It is a limited edition, hard cover with an Intro by Trent Jamieson (he of Death Most Definite). All books should be beautiful.
It has a lovely
Read more…
Drive-by: The Secretive Nicole Murphy
Nicole Murphy’s first book, The Secret Ones, was launched in July 2010 by HarperVoyager. Bookseller + Publisher said “fresh and interesting approach to an urban fantasy series’” and A Writer Goes on a Journey blogged “urphy is not restrained in
Read more…
The Afternoon Drive-by: Kyle Cassidy
I first saw Kyle’s work when (thanks to one of those serendipitous Google moments) I found Where I Write: Fantasy and Science Fiction Authors in their Creative Spaces – which is a truly wonderful documentation of, well, spec-fic
Read more…
This kind of crap makes me angry
This is why the Obesity Epidemic is sweeping the world faster than Bubonic Plague. At least the plague was quick and only resulted in death, not diabetes and a range of other slow-killing conditions. Seriously, if it can sit on a shelf for over a year and still not ‘go off’, then maybe it wasn’t food anyway. And if this is
Read more…
The Morning Drive-by Most Definite: Trent Jamieson
Trent Jamieson is nice … a little too nice … don’t be fooled. Behind that innocent, mild, butter-wouldn’t-melt-in-his-mouth face, he’s really … actually, he’s really nice. And his Death Works trilogy, beginning with Death Most Definite, is coming out under the auspices of Orbit in August. He’s published a
Read more…