The World Fantasy Award winners for works published in 2009 have been announced on Locus online: Novel The City & The City, China Miéville (Macmillan UK/ Del Rey) Blood of Ambrose, James Enge (Pyr) The Red Tree, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Roc) Finch, Jeff VanderMeer (Underland) In Great Waters, Kit Whitfield (Jonathan Cape UK/Del Rey) Novella “Sea-Hearts”,…… Continue reading World Fantasy winners
Head on over to Shimmer…
…to hear Peter M Ball read his fantastic ‘The Mike and Carly Story’. With each new story Pete publishes I become a bigger and bigger fan of his work. (For some reason, I just imagined myself like Violet from Willy Wonka, ballooning with fandom and possibly turning purple, whenever I read another of Pete’s stories.…… Continue reading Head on over to Shimmer…
Links of great news
Over at the New York Review of Books’ website, Samantha Holloway offers a detailed introduction and review of the soon-to-be-released Steampunk II: Steampunk Reloaded anthology. I think it’d be hard to find a more enthusiastic or positive report on the fantastic work Ann & Jeff VanderMeer have done on editing this anthology, and I for…… Continue reading Links of great news
Vale, Realms of Fantasy
Warren Lapine, publisher of Realms of Fantasy, has officially rung the magazine’s death knell. You can read all the sad details here: A Farewell Note From the Publisher.
In which my story appears in Weird Tales
The Uncanny Beauty issue of Weird Tales has a beeee-ooooo-tiful cover: And it has a super-exciting ToC: Fiction: “Secretario” by Catherynne M. Valente “A Concise & Ready Guide” by Ian R. MacLeod “Beauty & Disapperance” by Kat Howard “One Minute Weird Tale” by Lauren Beukes “Sisters Under the Skin” by L.L. Hannett “How Bria Died” by Mike…… Continue reading In which my story appears in Weird Tales
Perfect Short Fiction Anthology
If you were to collect a bunch of short fiction for your own personal anthology of ideal stories, which would you choose? What if you couldn’t select more than, say, twenty-five? How would you narrow it down? My head nearly explodes at the difficulty of such a task. Over at SF Signal, a selection of…… Continue reading Perfect Short Fiction Anthology
Rupert Bunny and the Sunday of Luxury
Rupert Bunny is one of Australia’s most successful expat artists (though his name isn’t on everyone’s lips the way Nolan’s is — not that Nolan is an expat, but you know what I mean…), and the Art Gallery of NSW has put together a fabulous exhibit, ‘Rupert Bunny: Artist in Paris’, which demonstrates in beautiful…… Continue reading Rupert Bunny and the Sunday of Luxury
Writing. Totally unpredictable.
So I sat down this morning with a couple of goals in mind: 1) Jot down notes for the three stories I’ve got percolating for the collection and see what plots arise. 2) Expand the other story I’ve been scribbling away at in fits and starts all week (between editing the Gargantuan Story and working…… Continue reading Writing. Totally unpredictable.
“Bald Editor Raises Stacks of Cash for Cancer Support”
Yes, that’s the headline we’re hoping to see by November 1, and you can help make it happen. Exhibit A: An incredibly hirsute editor of the Ticonderoga Publications variety. Help Russell Farr in his fundraising efforts by making a donation here. All cash raised will go to the ACT Eden Monaro Cancer Support Group — and…… Continue reading “Bald Editor Raises Stacks of Cash for Cancer Support”
In the Playground
There’s nothing like controversy to draw attention to thought-provoking art. Jonathan Hobin, an Ottawa- and Toronto-based photographer and art director, has recently unveiled his newest exhibition of photographs at the Dale Smith gallery in Ottawa. Entitled In the Playroom, the show consists of a series of portraits which, according to the Toronto Star, “brings the…… Continue reading In the Playground
Lisa L. Hannett 