Category Archives: Pimping/Promoting!

Seahearts Salon in Brisneyland

So, next week the lovely and luminous Margo Lanagan will be headlining at Avid Reader, with a team of appropriate literary handmaidens as the support act.

On Thursday 26 April, from 6-8pm there will be readings by emerging authors, Read more…

New publisher, new book, oh so pretty!

*rubs hands together with glee*

Lovely new publisher, Egaeus Press (brain-child of Master Mark Beech), has produced its first tome, Shadow Plays, by the lovely Reggie Oliver.

Gorgeous looking thing! *waits impatiently for own copy to arrive*

 

Purdy!

Behold!

The cover for the next Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror from Liz Grzyb and Talie Helene at Ticonderoga Publications.

The table of contents?

As yet to be announced.

Stay tuned.

 

In the mail, the new Cashore

An ARC of Kristin Cashore’s Bitterblue has arrived in the mail.

Same gorgeous style of cover as Graceling and Fire, both books I enjoyed.

Looking forward to getting to this one.

Sublime juxtaposition and gravitas: in the Lair with Jason Nahrung

Today we kidnapped the delightful Mr Jason Nahrung (yes, the man who competes with Sean Williams and Trent Jamieson for the title “Nicest Man in Australian Spec-Fic”). Jason is the author of the novel
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How pretty is …

… the cover of Lezli Robyn’s debut collection?

Bittersuite is coming out under the banner of Ticonderoga Publications and is due out in August.

In which there are critters …

Over at Shared Worlds, a group of us were give the chance to ‘choose our critter’ and write a little history for it. I made up Cloud-Bibbles, Lavie Tidhar introduces the world to Zoltar and Neil Gaiman’s Shadder
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Woot – first sale of 2012!

Very happy to announce that Lisa Hannett’s and my story “Prohibition Blues” has sold to Liz and Amanda at Ticonderoga Publications for the awesome and upcoming anthology Damnation and Dames.

There are shoes, werewolves, the Charleston, feathers, chases through swamps,
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Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror 2011 edition

It’s here! Finally it has arrived!

Huzzah! *snoopy dance*

‘Brisneyland by Night’ is happily nestled between Jay Lake’s ‘Mother’s Urban Booke of Dayes’ and Neil Gaiman’s ‘The Thing About Cassandra’.

Thanks, Paula Guran and Sean Wallace!

FableCroft! Books! Sale! Christmas Presents!

FableCroft is moving interstate and they are having a HUGE sale. You’re looking for Christmas presents, right? You can’t go wrong with a FableCroft book!

Go here!!

Now!!

Or I will add more ‘!!!’!

I’ll be checking on you.

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