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I love the Fringe festival: the entire month filled with its quirky and affordable shows; its ability to turn Adelaide into a busy-busy city seven evenings a week (instead of just on Friday and Saturday…); its Garden of Unearthly Delights with all the incredible tents, lights lining paths and hanging in clusters from trees, spruikers spruiking…… Continue reading In which I drool over acrobats

Ellen Datlow has posted her full Honorable Mentions lists (A-K here and L-Z here) and I’m so excited to see two of my stories on the lists! ‘Tiny Drops’ (which appeared in Midnight Echo 4) and ‘The February Dragon’, which Angela Slatter and I co-wrote for Scary Kisses, have both been “honoured”! *squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!* Thanks so…… Continue reading Best Horror Honorable Mentions 2010 *squee*

Well knock me over with a feather: ‘Commonplace Sacrifices’ — published in On Spec’s Winter 2009/2010 issue (and appearing in Bluegrass Symphony) has just popped up on Tangent Online’s Recommended Reading List for 2010! What an exciting way to start my weekend! Click here to read the list in its entirety. Thanks so much to…… Continue reading Tangent Online Recommended Reading List 2010

So, I might’ve told you about this little book I’ve got coming out mid-year? Maybe once or twice? *Eyes drift to the right-hand sidebar…* Oh yeah, thought so. Well, anyway, unlike many collections, Bluegrass Symphony is largely comprised of short stories that haven’t appeared elsewhere (which is really quite exciting), which means that few of you have had a…… Continue reading To whet your appetite…

So, in my last post I put a bag over my head and asked that you consider voting for me for the Campbell Award… And here I am again, sans paper bag, letting you all know that I’m eligible for the Ditmars this year — and I’d be so stoked to get your vote. You can…… Continue reading Ditmar Nominations; Or, Once Again I Blow My Own Horn

I’m not shy about self-promotion when it comes to telling you lovely folks about my stories. Although I write, initially, for myself (as I suspect most writers do), I’m not scribbling away into a vacuum. If all goes well, someone — maybe even you! — will read what I’ve written. But you might not, unless I tell…… Continue reading The Campbell Award: Or, How the Author Blushes and asks, ‘Vote for me!’