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April 10, 2013
Literati 2013
The program for this year’s Gold Coast Literati Festival is now available here.
I’m on the bill and very excited to be going – I’ll be giving a masterclass on polishing short stories.
You can also come along and see the likes of Katherine Howell, Matt Condon, Kari Gislasson, LA Larkin,
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April 9, 2013
Once Upon a Time: New Fairy Tales edited by Paula Guran
The cover and ToC for the new Paula Guran edited anthology, Once Upon a Time: New Fairy Tales, has been released! The book and ebook will be available in September of this year – go here for details from Prime.
My story “Flight” made the cut (after some helpful midwifery
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In the mail …
In yesterday’s mail, my author copies of One Small Step from FableCroft.
This is the first Australian, all-female, speculative fiction anthology since 1995′s She’s Fantastical.
The ToC is awesome and there’s a giveaway on Goodreads.
“Sand and Seawater” by Joanne Anderton & Rabia Gale
“Indigo Gold” by Deborah Biancotti
“Firefly Epilogue” by Jodi Cleghorn
“The
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April 8, 2013
Review of Nightmare Issue 7
Over at Fantasy Literature, Terry Weyma reviews Nightmare seventh issue, which includes “The Coffin-Maker’s Daughter”, Elizabeth Hand’s “The Bacchae”, Marc Laidlaw’s “Bonfires”, and “Gravitas” by Weston Ocshe.
Go here to read.
In which I sneak into Harry’s place, steal the cupcakes and drink all the coffee …
From the exquisite Kirsty Mitchell
The lovely Harry has included me in his series on Women in Genre.
I don’t know why, but I have a thing for fairy tales. Despite most female characters in fairy tales fall in two categories – subordinate, good girls or wicked, petty monsters
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In whcih I sneak into Harry’s place, steal the cupcakes and drink all the coffee …
From the exquisite Kirsty Mitchell
The lovely Harry has included me in his series on Women in Genre.
I don’t know why, but I have a thing for fairy tales. Despite most female characters in fairy tales fall in two categories – subordinate, good girls or wicked, petty monsters
Read more...
April 5, 2013
Meanwhile, over at Harry’s place
‘The Journey Home” (2013) © Kirsty Mitchell Photography
… the delightful and talented Haralambi Markov is devoting this month at his blog to posting about the female writers in speculative fiction who have influenced him and his writing. It’s a fascinating and personal series, and
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April 4, 2013
Shared Worlds
Over at Shared Worlds a bunch of us were asked for the best writing advice we could write on our hands.
So, 27 hands, including those of Neil Gaiman, Karen Lord, Joe Haldeman, Nnedi Okorafor, Gene Wolfe, Ekaterina Sedia, Patrick Rothfuss, Team VanderMeer, et al, are on display here –
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April 3, 2013
Canterbury 2100
So, back in 2008 the inimitable Dirk Flinthart edited a tome called Canterbury 2100, which essentially walked in the footsteps of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, only with more science fictiony bits and better, more comfortable shoes.
The blurb? So pleased you asked:
Six hundred years ago, a group of pilgrims made their way to
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