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January 27, 2013
Weirder Shadows Over Innsmouth
Cover art (c) Les Edwards (Fedogan & Bremer hardcover)
I’m very excited to reveal that Weirder Shadows Over Innsmouth, the third volume in the Stephen Jones edited Innsmouth series, has its Table of Contents all ready.
The venerable and Cthulhu-approved Fedogan and Bremer are stepping up to publish
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January 24, 2013
Reminding myself constantly …
… of this. 
Working on the second half of the novel (now known as Hallowmass instead of Brisneyland by Night) the last four days and it feels like banging my head on the wall. I have to keep in the front of my brain that the first half
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January 20, 2013
Exegesis, Part the Second: Memory
More from my PhD Exegesis, wherein I consider the ideas of memory at work in Sourdough and Other Stories.Part Two: Memory
‘The sight of the inn picks at the stitches of my memory. The splintered shingle, emblazoned with a faded golden lily, swings in the breeze. I stare at
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January 15, 2013
Totally worthy …
… go over here and flick a couple of shekels to Michael Kelly’s new anthology, Apparitions II.
Give money, get book, support plucky indie, increase your karma.
It’s all good.
January 13, 2013
The Witches’ Scale
And so, I have agreed to write a novella for Simon Marshall-Jones at Spectral Press.
He offered me something I couldn’t possibly refuse: this illustration as a cover.
It’s called “Die Hexenwippe oder-waage” (The witches’ seesaw or scale) by Michael Hutter.
I already have ideas and such, but the novella won’t
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Speculative Fiction Festival 2013
Sent off my bio and headshot this morning for the NSW Writers’ Centre Speculative Fiction Festival program. The festival is organised by the delovely Kate Forsyth.
Lisa and I will be appearing (in a puff of smoke with some fancy lightning, if we
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January 10, 2013
Hannett + Horror = Teh Awesomes
Lisa L. Hannett has joined the team over at This is Horror for 2013, so we can look forward to a brilliantly written, well thought-out monthly column that prods and pokes the monsters under the bed and gives them a bit of a scare. It’s hellasmart.
In
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January 7, 2013
2012: A Slightly Belated Retrospective
I’m in the middle of working out the fine details for my 2013 plan and figured reviewing what I actually did in 2012 might be helpful.
It’s all a bit of a blur really, so a look at my handy-dandy diary is quite helpful.
So in brief:
I started writing full-time
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January 6, 2013
A new year, a new story
This one comes as something of a relief, given what a difficult birth the previous story (the story formerly known as “White Bride, Black Bride, Raven-girl, Hare”, which became “Flight”) had.
“The Chosen Girl” springs from a dream I had when we were travelling in the UK last May,
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Over at Thirteen O’Clock …
… is a lovely review by Alan Baxter of our Midnight and Moonshine.
Angela Slatter and Lisa L Hannett have become well known for their collaborative short fiction work. Last year they won an Aurealis Award for it. They’ve also won plenty of awards for their individual efforts, including
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