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Over at Locus Online
Jeff VanderMeer gives the royal sampler for 2009, including some nice things about Dreaming Again and New Ceres Nights.
http://www.locusmag.com/Reviews/2010/02/jeff-vandermeer-on-best-of-2009.html
The Jacaranda Wife
… looks like she’ll have a new life in a yet-to-be-named anthology of Australian folklore stories (yes, even made-up ones like mine), so in celebration here are some pics of the original Jacaranda Wife in my backyard. The old lady’s a bit smaller than she used to be, having suffered some mandatory lopping, but she’s still lovely and filled with purple.
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On the Fine Art of Submission
I’ve had quite a few people with queries about the how of submitting stories to magazines and journals in the last couple of weeks. So I thought I’d pull out the ole soapbox again and take up some real estate at Speaker’s Corner. I know I’ve banged on about submission guidelines before, so some of this will be well-trodden ground.
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Home from NatCon and here are the Ditmars
Results of the Ditmars are below … more comments will follow about NatCon, but that will be tomorrow when my brain is talking to me again … I only got off the plane an hour ago.
A. Bertram Chandler Award
Rosaleen Love
William Atheling Jr Award for Criticism and Review
Kim Wilkins, an article about Australian fantasy fiction in the Journal of Australian
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Friday = Writingday (TM)
Some people call it ‘procrastination’ … I like to think of it as ‘contemplation’ .
So, as I sit here in my pyjamas (the ones with the feet in them), eating my yoghurt and kiwi fruit, slurping down the vanilla coffee, I am staring out the window of the study here at the ramshackle cottage. I am staring straight at the
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Stuff I got in the mail today
It was all good.
Goodness the First: The latest London Review of Books – hard to beat for the essays. Clever, beautifully written, informed. Warning: can cause thinking.
Goodness the Second: Nice letter from Jeff VanderMeer – has squid on his letterhead! Cool. And photos. And stuff! And ‘hello’ from Ann. And a drawing of the 3 VanderMeerCats. Much coolness.
Goodness the Third:
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