Author: lisahannett

My World Fantasy schedule

The con starts tomorrow (yay!) so I guess it’s high time I post my schedule: Thursday, November 1 — I’m doing a reading in the Aurora room at 3.30 Sunday, November 4 — From 12.30 onwards I’ll be banqueting and celebrating the World Fantasy Award winners. In between — I’ll be going to as many…… Continue reading My World Fantasy schedule

Toronto, Part One

I got to Toronto almost a week before World Fantasy because, well, travel from Adelaide to the east coast of North America can be pretty hellish — it’s about 34 hours door to door, if you have a “fast” route — and the jetlag is often worse than the trip itself. Your system is all…… Continue reading Toronto, Part One

Horror Visuals and Their Place in Fiction

Artwork, horror stories, the reading experience — these are all aspects of creativity that I think about a lot, and generally adore. So it’s a great pleasure to have Harry Markov stop by on his blog tour to talk about these very things! Along with Lawrence Santoro and Tony C. Smith, Harry has edited the…… Continue reading Horror Visuals and Their Place in Fiction

Excitement upon Excitement…

Wonderful review of Midnight and Moonshine and then, five minutes later, it magically* appeared as a REAL BOOK on my doorstep! Along with my gorgeous hardcover of The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2011, which has my story ‘Miss Tapekwa County’ in its impressive table of contents! Squeeeeeee! Also, since nobody ever gets to…… Continue reading Excitement upon Excitement…

Wonderful review in ASiF

Jason Nahrung has written an incredible review of Midnight and Moonshine over at ASiF — I love Jason’s reviews because they are always so insightful, considered, and enticing! Here’s a snippet: “The pedigree of Midnight and Moonshine was promising from the outset, right down to the cover design. Artist Kathleen Jennings was nominated this year…… Continue reading Wonderful review in ASiF

Inspiration: Nicole Dextras

Yes, I’m still working on that lecture, but in the meantime I’m thinking about my novel and wishing I was working on it instead, and so I’m looking at artwork online, as I tend to do, for inspiration. Ahem. I stumbled across Nicole Dextras’ work online a few years ago, while I was working on…… Continue reading Inspiration: Nicole Dextras

Unquotable Quotes

As we struggle to the end of all the required ‘stuff’ required to get a book out into the world, we thought we’d share some of our less-than-successful requests for cover quotes. Note: none of this may have happened. George R.R. Martin: Who the FUCK are these people? Neil Gaiman: If I ever find this…… Continue reading Unquotable Quotes

The Writing Process, Visually

It’s nearing the end of Semester Two here in Australia, so much of my “writing time” involves balancing teaching commitments, research, short story writing and critiques, edits, and working on the novel somewhere in between. And staying up late to watch more episodes of The Tudors. Today, this is what my writing process looks like.…… Continue reading The Writing Process, Visually