Monthly Archives: July 2011
Favourite image this week
We watched T
orchwood: Miracle Day the other night and it contained my fave image in a long, long time:
Gwen Cooper, Warrior Mum, fully equipped with a look that says ‘You’re endangering my child and pissing me off. That
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Reading in Reno (less dangerous than Reading Lolita in Tehran and more fun)
At this year’s WorldCon in Reno, the most excellent voice-over artist Bob Kuhn (the voie of Tolkien’s Dragon!) will be doing some of us an enormous favour: he’ll be doing readings for Aussie and NZ authors who can’t make it to the con.
He’ll be doing readings for awesome folk from the HaprerVoyager stable : Fiona McIntosh, Mary
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The Ending Drive-by: Deborah Biancotti
Deborah Biancotti is one of Australia’s leading lights in the spec-fic scene. This means her short stories are positively luminous and can also be used to light up dark rooms … of course, the stories themselves are pretty
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A Book of Horrors News! A Competition! Special Drive-by Fridays! Otters!
And so, you may have noticed (if you’re especially perspicacious and of a noticing bent – well done, have a jelly baby) another page has been added to this site. Specifically, t’is a site dedicated to
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Read Horror: The vampire is not himself
On the emasculation of the vampire … an excellent column by Simon Marshall-Jones over at the wonderful Read Horror.
I remember, many, many years ago now (over 35, if you must know), badgering my mother into buying me
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The Wild Drive-by: Elspeth Cooper
Songs of the Earth is the first book of the Wild Hunt series and is also Elspeth Cooper‘s debut novel. T’is being compared with The Name of Wind and that cannot be a bad thing. US rights have
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Cheeky Frawgs abound
The VanderFrawgs … err, VanderMeers are having an ebook publishing frenzy via Cheeky Frawg – details here.
One of the titles is a lovely collection from Tartarus Press, Women of the Supernatural: A Tartarus Press Sample, which
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