Voting Thoughts 3
There are two more categories I’d like to cover before voting for both the Ditmars and the Tin Ducks close this weekend. First up is the Ditmar for Best Collected Work.This is one of the two categories...
View ArticleHonour Amongst Writers
Very pleased to wake up this morning to find that Signature Walk has made the (very) long list of stories on Ellen Datlow's Honourable Mentions for Best Horror of the Year. It's weird to be mentioned...
View ArticleThe 'e' in Book
Things are a little quieter at the moment, although an impending house move means they won't stay that way for long. I've used the time to finish off the first-round edits on a novella I've been asked...
View ArticleAurealis Awards
Being in WA and a few hours behind everyone else means I'm posting a while after the rest of the writing community... but if, by some remote chance you haven't heard, the Aurealis Award finalists were...
View ArticleA Load of Ballots
I keep feeling like someone who's turned up for a party just as everyone else is leaving... another late blog means most of you will already know that the final ballot papers have been revealed for...
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Heart Starting
Pre-order details are up now for Dead Red Heart, Ticonderoga's anthology of bloodsuckers Down Under.At more than 500 pages, it's a monster tome, and the contributors' list reads like a who's who of...
View ArticleSwancon wrap
Today's the last day of what's amounted to five days of public holidays, and I've spent the majority of the time at Swancon, the Perth sci-fi and fantasy convention. This year, Swancon was also the...
View ArticleOh there you are...
So it's about time I got back on this particular horse, I think.Through a combination of factors, I took a bit of a break from the whole writing affair, and it's hard to see that as anything but a good...
View ArticleWorking without a net
I’d hoped to get an update online a little sooner than this, but real life being what it is, other things got in the way. Never mind – that just means there’s lots to report later... For now, though, I...
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Collision alert
Promotional material for the upcoming anthology World's Collider is starting to trickle out. This here is a postcard that will be distributed to every attendee at the World Horror Convention in...
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Countdown to launch
Just a quick reminder to anyone in the Perth area that Damnation and Dames will be launching at Swancon this Friday.Damnation and Dames is a collection of 'paranormal noir' stories from the likes of...
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Damnation and Dames launch
This time last week saw Damnation and Dames get the equivalent of a bottle of champagne smashed across its bow, when it had its official launch.Scheduled for release as part of this year's Swancon...
View ArticleEllen Datlow's Honourable Mentions 2011
Just a quick post, this one, if only because it's being reported extensively elsewhere.Uber-editor Ellen Datlow has just released her Honourable Mentions for Best Horror of the Year, and I'm pleased...
View ArticleHearts for Dead Red
The release of Ellen Datlow's Honourable Mentions list the other day not only gave praise to individual writers, but - by extension - to the books they featured in. One book to come off particularly...
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Collision cover
The front cover for the forthcoming World's Collider anthology is now available for public consumption:Available fromNightscape Press, it'll be out this summer (or winter, if you're living in the same...
View ArticleWriting round-up
It’s been a busy couple of months, one of my most productive writing periods for more than a year. The downside is, of course, that while I’m working on other things, I’m not writing this… so here’s...
View ArticleWhen worlds collide
I've just heard that the release date for World's Collider has been set at July 10 for both ebooks and print editions. A whole lot of work has gone into putting this one together, and it's testament to...
View ArticleBloodstones story sale
The table of contents for Ticonderoga’s latest anthology, Bloodstones, has just been announced, which means I can now reveal that my story Dead Inside has been selected for publication. It’s one of 17...
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World's Collider - out now!
I'm very pleased to announce that World's Collider is now available to buy in ebook and dead-tree formats. It's a 'mosaic novel' - that's to say several short stories that fit together to form a single...
View ArticleSeptember Mini Con
Every two years, the Katherine Susannah Prichard Writers Centre in Greenmount, just outside Perth, holds a Mini Con for readers and writers of speculative fiction, and I'm excited to say that this year...
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