Monthly Archives: August 2010
My last hurrah over at Ecstatic Days
Thanks to Jeff VanderMeer for letting me blogsit over at the memory cathedral. Less thanks for leaving me with Evil Monkey, although I understand why no kennel would take him.
This evening I had the weekly write-club session with my writing buddy Peter M. Ball (the man who committed the novella Horn). I went back over the novel, which I’ve not
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I am far too amused by this …
Snurched from Amal …
Ze rest lives ‘ere.
Scenting the Drive-by: Mary Robinette Kowal
Mary’s first novel, Shades of Milk and Honey, the fantasy novel Jane Austen should have written, was released into the wild this year (via the good graces of Tor and
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Continuing the Ticonderoga Publications theme …
Well, huzzah!
LEZLI ROBYN SELLS COLLECTION TO TICONDEROGA PUBLICATIONS
Ticonderoga Publications is over the moon to announce a forthcoming collection of stories by Campbell-Award nominated and International Bright Young Thing Lezli Robyn.
The collection is scheduled for publication in 2012.
Lezli Robyn is an Aussie Lass who has very recently discovered a love for writing fiction. She has sold 9 stories since October 2008
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The Double Drive-by: Russell B. Farr
Ticonderoga Publications is a punchy indie press operated by the delightful Russell B. Farr. TP has produced (amongst others) Sean Williams’ Magic Dirt, Terry Dowling’s Basic Black, Simon Brown’s Troy, and the upcoming Dead Sea Fruit by Kaaron Warren, the anniversay re-release of Kim Wilkins’ The Infernal, Sara Douglass’ The Hall
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Music for Another World
Mutation Press has produced this gorgeous anthology – Music for Another World. Good reasons to get it? Two starters: Lisa Hannett and Aliette de Bodard.
We are writers for many reasons …
… one of those reasons may be that, without the dubious protection of our writer tag, the rest of society would lock us up for posts like this, in which we replace psychotic cats with sociopathic bears:
Peter wakes up to find the Spokesbear sitting on his chest, staring him in the face.
Spokesbear: Time to work.
Peter: Fuck off.
Spokesbear: You’re not sick anymore.
Peter: I
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Alisa K visits Ecstatic Days
(And is smart enough not to accept raisin danishes from Evil Monkey.)
Alisa Krasnostein is editor and publisher at Twelfth Planet Press, an Australian indie press for fresh, new speculative fiction. She is also Executive Editor of the review website ASif!, member of Not if You Were the Last Short Story on Earth and part of the podcasting team
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A Drive-by by the Servant of the Underworld's Mum: Aliette de Bodard
Aliette de Bodard is a writer of fantasy,
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Thanks for the Random, Very Demotivational
And I shall call him ‘David’:
