Author: lisahannett

So I’m sitting here this morning scrolling through Facebook while having my cereal, munching away when all of a sudden I see Jonathan Strahan’s post about the World Fantasy Award nominees, and HOLY CROW YOU GUYS MY BOOK IS ON THERE!!! The Fortunate Isles is nominated for Best Collection!!! So of course I immediately check…… Continue reading World Fantasy Award finalist!

I’m so grateful to Alexandra Pierce at Speculative Insight for giving me the change to write an essay I’d been drafting in my mind for almost 5 years. ‘The history of our future’ is the most scarily and openly personal piece I have ever had published — a reflection on childbirth and early motherhood that…… Continue reading The history of our future

…has been translated into Hungarian! How cool! (And this cover is so striking!)

Out now!! Here’s the lovely blurb from Egaeus Press’s website: The Fortunate Isles collects fourteen tales of salt-crusted weirdness from the rugged, cold-clime harbour village of Barradoon… Barradoon: the limit of worldly navigation; stronghold of sea-myths and ancient forces; a place of simmering tension and ruthless vengeance meted out by human and inhuman alike. These…… Continue reading The Fortunate Isles

…is out now! And she’s so beautiful!!! Published by Thames & Hudson, cover art by Daniel New, launched by Dymocks Adelaide, available in all good brick and mortar bookshops and online. I am so delighted to see this book set sail!

…is always happy to see me in the office.

Just look at this beautiful thing, a new collection of my Southern Dark columns, with a gorgeous cover — and it’s out now! Head on over to Brain Jar Press’s website to nab this little gem.

My contributor copy of Body Shocks (edited by Ellen Datlow) has arrived from overseas! Over the moon that Ellen selected my story ‘Sweet Subtleties’ for this incredible volume. The design is amazing — and so is the table of contents!

I love Egaeus Press books so much! On the last day of the year, my contributor copies of Songs of the Northern Seas arrived, and they are stunning. The illustration for my story is PERFECT. Such attention to detail, such craftsmanship, such beauty!