Nikky Lee's Blog, page 12
July 20, 2021
10 Questions with Pamela Jeffs
Pamela Jeffs is an Australian speculative fiction author with a love for writing short fiction. She has published three short story collections, Red Hour and Other Strange Tales, Saloons & Stardust: A Collection and Five Dragons, co-authored an anthology titled ‘The Zookeeper’s Tales of Interstellar Oddities’ and has 70+ short stories featured in various national and international magazines and anthologies. She has been shortlisted for multiple awards throughout her career including numerous Aur...
July 16, 2021
10 Questions with Tracy Auerbach
Tracy Auerbach is an author of science fiction and fantasy for teens and adults. As an avid reader with a vivid imagination, she chose to study film, English, and education, and went on to teach and write STEM curriculum for the New York Department of Education. This helped to polish her writing skills and ignite her passion for science fiction and fantasy.
Her first scholarly article, published in Language Magazine, was about the value of active, creative learning in science. On the fiction si...
July 13, 2021
Dingo & Sister wins Aurealis Awards
I am over the moon to share that my post-apocalyptic fantasy mash-up novelette Dingo & Sister won Best Fantasy Novella and Best Young Adult Short Short at the 2020 Aurealis Awards!
Typing that out is still a bit surreal. For years I have looked up to the Aurealis Award shortlist in awe, dreaming a far-flung dream that one day, in the far future of my writing career, I might be on it. I never expected to win one, let alone two! I was ecstatic just to see my name listed next to many of the great...
July 6, 2021
10 Questions with Matthew R. Davis
Matthew R. Davis is an Australian Shadows Awards-winning author, a Shirley Jackson Award finalist and musician based in Adelaide, South Australia, with around sixty short stories and poems published around the world. He sings and plays bass in heavy bands such as Blood Red Renaissance and icecocoon, sometimes performs spoken word with punk poets Paroxysm Press, dabbles in short film and graphic design, and likes to explore interesting locations with his favourite photographer for research and fu...
July 1, 2021
Cover reveal: THE RARKYN'S FAMILIAR
It's here, it's here, it's here! The GORGEOUS cover for The Rarkyn's Familiar is ready for the world. Illustrator Kolarp Em has done a phenominal job bringing Lyss and Skaar to life.
*Whispers* turn your sound on!
https://video.wixstatic.com/video/78ad7c_c6503fc69fba434ab0e626466aef01dd/1080p/mp4/file.mp4An orphan bent on revenge. A monster searching for freedom. A forbidden pact that binds their fates together.
Lyss has heard her father’s screams; smelled the iron-tang of his blood. She witn...
June 15, 2021
10 Questions with Chris Patrick Carolan
Chris Patrick Carolan is an author, editor, and hovercraft enthusiast, originally from Glasgow but now based in Calgary, Alberta. He writes science fiction, fantasy (urban and epic), and steampunk, though he has also been known to turn to crime to make ends meet. Crime fiction, that is. His first novel, The Nightshade Cabal, was published by Parliament House Press in 2020 and was a finalist for the Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence ‘Best First Novel’ award. He can be found on Twitter ...
June 12, 2021
10 Questions with Kevin Klehr
Kevin lives with his husband, Warren, in their humble apartment (affectionately named Sabrina), in Australia’s own ‘Emerald City’, Sydney.
His tall tales explore unrequited love in the theatre district of the Afterlife, romance between a dreamer and a realist, and a dystopian city addicted to social media.
His first novel, Drama Queens with Love Scenes, spawned a secondary character named Guy. Many readers argue that Guy, the insecure gay angel, is the star of the Actors and Angels book series...
June 11, 2021
Midnight Echo 15 wins Australian Shadow Award!
Congratulations to my fellow contributors, we're officially award winning! The Australian Shadow Awards were announced on social media last night and I'm delighted to say our little magazine of dark fantasy and horror won the edited works category! If you haven't read it yet, you can grab a copy here.
If you're in the mood for some horror, also check out the winners and shortlistees below.
Novel WINNER: Deception Pass, Matthew Tait (Dark Crib) The Crying Forest, Venero Armanno (IFWG) Fly...June 4, 2021
Mega list of LGBTQ+ fantasy, sci-fi and horror books by Australian and New Zealand authors
To celebrate Pride Month I've compiled a MEGA LIST of speculative fiction reads either written LGBTQ+ authors from Australia and New Zealand or featuring a main point of view character from the rainbow community. From epic to opera, steampunk to cyberpunk, browse this collection to find your next read!
Note: this list is live and I will periodically add to it as new titles become available.
To help navigate this list, I've tagged each book with appropriate tags to its genre/sub genre. Simply ...
June 1, 2021
10 Questions with Stephen Herczeg
Stephen’s feature length screenplays have found success in international screenwriting competitions with TITAN winning the Sci-Fi category, and Dark are the Woods placing second in the Horror category, in the 2017 International Horror Hotel screenplay competition. Over recent years, Stephen has concentrated more on prose writing, and so far has had over eighty short stories and a further 100 micro-fictions accepted for publication.
He lives by the creed "Just Finish It" and his is first collec...
