Advance copies of the inaugural issue of The Dark (edited by Jack Fisher and Sean Wallace) have gone out into the wild, and the first review has appeared this morning on the interwebs. Huzzah! AJ Sikes has written a detailed and incredibly favourable review of the four stories in this issue: ‘The Carpet’ by Nnedi…… Continue reading Sneak Peek Review of THE DARK, Issue One
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All the Catching Up
Where has the time gone? Semester Two is well under way, I’ve got four million students (lovely, all of them), and a heap of projects to complete before heading overseas in October (YAAAAAAAAAAY for World Fantasy!!!!) *ahem* As I was saying. Things have been busy, but in a good way! First, and most exciting: THE…… Continue reading All the Catching Up
Planet the Twelfth!
Exciting news: today, Twelfth Planet Press announced the forthcoming publication of Baggage, a book I’m co-writing with Angela Slatter, which will be the final volume in TPP’s excellent series of short story collections, the Twelve Planets. What Are the Twelve Planets? The Twelve Planets are twelve boutique collections by some of Australia’s finest short story…… Continue reading Planet the Twelfth!
Shadows Edge
Look what just arrived in the post! My contributor copy of Shadows Edge, which includes a ToC of most excellent writers of weird and/or horrific tales: Prologue: The Nineteenth Step Echoland by Joel Lane The Penury by Michael Cisco Tinder Row by Richard Gavin The Falling Dark by Daniel Mills The Old Church by Gary…… Continue reading Shadows Edge
On Angst and Fear and Envy…
For the past week, Alan Baxter has been posting an excellent bunch of interviews on his website, in a series he’s calling “The Ongoing Angst of Successful Writers”. So far he’s interviewed Kaaron Warren, Angela Slatter, Joanne Anderton and Trudi Canavan (and there’s still Margo Lanagan to come!) Yesterday it was my turn to answer…… Continue reading On Angst and Fear and Envy…
Clearing the Table
Every year, for at least the past ten or fifteen, I’ve gone through a cycle that I once thought of as filling and — eventually — clearing my proverbial plate. I’d start each new semester (and, yes, sadly I’ve been involved in university life so long now that my internal calendar is split into semesters,…… Continue reading Clearing the Table
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
Good Style Knows No Tricks
I’ve been on a bit of a Tudors kick lately. I gobbled up Season One of The Tudors last week and moved swiftly on to Season Two. And as if that wasn’t enough, I’ve also been reading Margaret Irwin’s Young Bess — mostly because I love Irwin’s weird stories so much, I had to see…… Continue reading Good Style Knows No Tricks
Guest Post at Booklife: Collaboration
On Friday, the first of two guests posts Angela and I wrote about our collaboration process went up over at Booklife. It was such fun writing these posts (the second one in particular, but you’ll have to wait until tomorrow to see it!) and great to get a chance to share a bit about how…… Continue reading Guest Post at Booklife: Collaboration
Writing Habits, Or How Lisa is Addicted to Her Diary
In other news, Nicole Murphy is running a fantastic series of interviews on her website, in which she has asked a slew of authors about their writing habits and processes. There have already been such a wonderful responses, from the likes of Sean Williams, Angela Slatter, Joanne Anderton, Kate Forsyth, Justina Robson — and so…… Continue reading Writing Habits, Or How Lisa is Addicted to Her Diary
Lisa L. Hannett 