Happy New Year, all! Hope you’ve had a safe and happy holiday season! Mine kicked off with an excellent interview with Seán Wright for Galactic Chat, in which we chat — amongst other things — about my forthcoming novel, Lament For the Afterlife (which is being published by CZP this year!), lush and poetic writing,…… Continue reading Galactic Chat 62: In Which I Reply to Most Excellent Questions
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Free e-book with every pre-order of The Female Factory
This just in! (Well, “just” as in, announced yesterday. Just-ish.) Ahem. From the Twelfth Planet Press website: To celebrate the forthcoming release of The Female Factory by the award winning duo Lisa L Hannett and Angela Slatter, we’re giving away the ebook version with every preorder of the paperback for the whole of December. Simply…… Continue reading Free e-book with every pre-order of The Female Factory
Over at Tor.com…
…you can now read an excerpt from ‘Vox’, the first story in our ‘Twelve Planets’ collection, The Female Factory. Head on over here to read the snippet! Children are a commodity few women can afford. Hopeful mothers-to-be try everything. Fertility clinics. Pills. Wombs for hire. Babies are no longer made in bedrooms, but engineered in…… Continue reading Over at Tor.com…
The Female Factory: ‘Vox’
When Alisa approached us about doing one of the Twelve Planets, we readily agreed. Then, having sprung her trap, she added “But make it more science fictiony.” Cue Mo Szyslak from The Simpsons … “Whaaaaaa?” Undeterred, and a little heavy of heart, we two dark fantasy and horror girls trundled away dragging our feet. We…… Continue reading The Female Factory: ‘Vox’
Cranky Ladies of History: Table of Contents Announced!
This morning, Fablecroft Publishing announced the table of contents for their Cranky Ladies of History anthology, and I am delighted to say that I’ve got a story in this book! My piece is set in early medieval Iceland (surprise, surprise) and tells the story of Hallgerðr Höskuldsdóttir, a very cranky lady indeed, who caused no…… Continue reading Cranky Ladies of History: Table of Contents Announced!
Blood Sisters and Honourable Mentions
Bits and bobs of exciting news: I’m so delighted that Paula Guran has chosen to reprint my story, ‘From the Teeth of Strange Children’, in her forthcoming anthology, Blood Sisters: Vampire Stories by Women. Scheduled for publication in May next year, this book is going to be a knock-out. (Not saying this because I’ve got…… Continue reading Blood Sisters and Honourable Mentions
The Female Factory cover reveal!
Twelfth Planet Press has revealed the cover Amanda Rainey designed for The Female Factory, Volume 11 in the ‘Twelve Planets’ series — co-written by Angela Slatter and moi! The collection is due out this year (hooray!) and can be pre-ordered in various formats here. It was great fun working on a suite of science fiction…… Continue reading The Female Factory cover reveal!
Mammoth Book of Steampunk Adventures!
After a generally crappy day, it was so wonderful coming home to find I’d received my contributor copies to The Mammoth Book of Steampunk Adventures, edited by the ever-marvellous Sean Wallace. My Clarkesworld story, ‘On the Lot and In the Air,’ rubs elbows with some brilliant pieces by the likes of K.W. Jeter, Cherie Priest,…… Continue reading Mammoth Book of Steampunk Adventures!
As for the sleepiness of this site lately…
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Snapshot 2014
Recently, Stephanie Gunn interviewed me as part of the massive enterprise that is the 2014 series of ‘Snapshots’ taken of Australian speculative fiction — and the interview has gone live! Stephanie asked me some excellent questions about collaborating on short stories, the state of spec-fic awards in Australia, future writing projects, and a bunch of…… Continue reading Snapshot 2014
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