If only I could go to this shindig: Tesseracts Fourteen, and the authors and editors of Tesseracts Fourteen are going to be featured at the Merril Collection’s Christmas Tea, on Saturday December 4th, at the Merril Collection (239 College Ave, Toronto) from 1-4. Alas, the commute between Adelaide and Toronto is too great for me…… Continue reading 15 Days of Tesseracts, Reviews, and Other fun stuff
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Bluegrass Symphony, with cover!
*SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!* My book! Cover! Thanks to Russ and this gorgeous cover stylin’, my stories will now be jacketed before they are sent out into the world. And, frankly, nothing works better than a skull and a few splashes of blood to keep the words warm as they journey from place to place. I. Am. So.…… Continue reading Bluegrass Symphony, with cover!
Bundles for Christmas, anyone?
SpecFaction NSW is running the Aurealis Awards for the first time in Sydney next year. And thanks to the generosity of some incredible (and generous!) Australian authors, they’ve got some fab auctions up on Ebay at the moment to raise funds for this event. The pitch for this fundraiser goes a little something like this:…… Continue reading Bundles for Christmas, anyone?
Astonishing and Impressive!
Mark Harding’s Music for Another World anthology (published by Mutation Press) is getting some fantastic reviews, the most recent of which appears in the current issue of Interzone (Nov-Dec, 231), written by Andy Hedgecock. You’ll have to snag yourself a hard copy of Interzone to read this incredibly positive review in all its glory — but…… Continue reading Astonishing and Impressive!
Approaching Deadlines: Physically Manifested in Four Parts
1) On a whim, the author paints her fingernails; the intensity of the varnish colour a reflection of her defiance of any and all deadlines. If applied with enough panache and a laissez-faire attitude, one might even be convinced that this is, in fact, not a well-practised procrastination technique. 2) However, as Exhibit A demonstrates,…… Continue reading Approaching Deadlines: Physically Manifested in Four Parts
World Fantasy winners
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
Lisa L. Hannett 