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May 28, 2013

Haze is launching …

haze-launch-invite… so Paula Weston’s new novel Haze is being launch on Thursday 6 June at Riverbend Books. Details are here.


Go along – you know you want to.

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Published on May 28, 2013 23:11

May 23, 2013

Rise of the Fallen

rise of the fallenI’ve been fortunate enough to receive a copy of Teagan Chilcott’s debut novel Rise of the Fallen. Not only is it Teagan’s debut, but it’s also the first speculative fiction book to come from Australia’s oldest independent Indigenous publishing house, Magabala Books.


And one lucky person will
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Published on May 23, 2013 04:23

Ducks!!!

217307_10151454324692304_275465117_nMy new hoodie has arrived from Redbubble, embellished by one of the genius designs of Kathleen Jennings.


I shall wear it always.

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Published on May 23, 2013 01:01

May 20, 2013

A Killer Among Demons

469008_10151452658742304_1302958185_oThis is what I’ve been doing this morning, going over the galleys for my story “Cuckoo” in the A Killer Among Demons anthology from Dark Prints Press.


Soon to follow: a rundown of the Literati festival on the Gold Coast and this year’s Aurealis Awards in Sydney.

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Published on May 20, 2013 18:04

May 15, 2013

The most important thing I can tell you …

fc,550x550,creme.u1… is that Kathleen has put the Flash Gordon and the ducks designed up at Redbubble.


Go here.


As my birthday gift to myself, I am getting it in a green hoodie.


Also, tomorrow I teach a 3 hr masterclass at the Gold Coast’s Literati Festival – about putting your best story
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Published on May 15, 2013 16:41

May 12, 2013

And now we do the dance of happiness …

CAM00122… because this arrived from Redbubble.


Kathleen Jennings is putting her designs (slowly, oh so slowly. HINT!) there for transmutation into magnificent t-shirts and hoodies and stuffs, oh my!


You should go here and order something and encourage her to make more of her wonderful designs available … if only so
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Published on May 12, 2013 22:42

Wise Words

919661_10151440650822304_346270463_oThe lovely Meg Vann, CEO of the Queensland Writers Centre, writes her monthly letter to members and it goes out with our copies of WQ magazine.


A very talented writer herself, Meg hits on a basic truth here.

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Published on May 12, 2013 17:27

May 6, 2013

Yes, I am still here …

The Scream by Munch

The Scream by Munch


… you can hear me breathing and no, not in a creepy phonecall kind of way.


Having returned from the whirlwind of Conflux in Canberra, barely escaping mummification by the hotel’s heating system (BTW: if you need somewhere to mummify a body, talk to me), I
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Published on May 06, 2013 16:18

May 2, 2013

Sleeper

sleeperHighResI’m really happy to be able to reveal this cover for my mate SM Johnston’s first book. Sleeper is book one of her Toy Soldiers series, coming atchya from Entranced Publishing.


The blurb for this new adult book reads:


After a life saving heart transplant, eighteen-year-old Mishca Richardson is plagued by
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Published on May 02, 2013 21:31

May 1, 2013

Australian Women Writers of Outstanding Horror and Dark Fantasy: A Not Quite Top Ten

Hecate by William Blake

Hecate by William Blake


So, I think we may have *just* missed Women in Horror month, but that shouldn’t stop you from checking out Lisa Hannett’s latest post over at This is Horror. Any time is a good time to read creepy stuff by excellent women writers.


Go
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Published on May 01, 2013 16:12