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January 22, 2015
Midnight and Moonshine: new in eBook form!
At last, it’s here: Midnight and Moonshine is up at Amazon, ready for downloading to your Kindle’ish devices, people!
The gods are dead, but will not be forgotten.
When Mymnir flees the devastation of Ragnarok, she hopes to escape all that bound her to Ásgarðr — a heedless pantheon, a domineering brother, and her neglectful father-master, Óðinn. But the white raven, a being of memory and magic, should know that the past is not so easily left behind. No matter how far she flies, she cannot evade her family…
In planting seeds of the old world in the new, Mymnir becomes queen of a land with as many problems as the one she fled. Her long-lived Fae children ignite and fan feuds that span generations; lives are lost and loves won because of their tampering. Told in thirteen parts, Midnight and Moonshine follows the Beaufort and Laveaux families, part-human, part-Fae, as they battle, thrive and survive in Mymnir’s kingdom.
Midnight and Moonshine is a collection of interconnected tales with links between them as light and strong as spider-silk. From fire giants to whispering halls, disappearing children to evening-wolves, fairy hills to bewitched cypress trees, and talking heads to moonshiners of a special sort, Midnight and Moonshine takes readers on a journey from ninth century Vinland to America’s Deep South in the present day. Hannett and Slatter have created a mosaic novel of moments, story-tiles as strange as witchwood and withywindles. Midnight and Moonshine is a rich tapestry of dark fantasy, fairy tale and speculation.
‘Marked by imagery both beautiful and grotesque, and unnerving twists that recall the uncanny horror of original fairy tales, this collection contains a unifying, multilayered plot that draws upon Norse mythology to take the reader on a thrilling, unsettling journey.’ Publishers Weekly Starred Review
And did I mention we’re running a Goodreads Giveaway: a limited edition hardcover and a limited edition book bag, emblazoned with the art of Kathleen Jennings.
And of course you can always order the paperback or hardcover from Ticonderoga Publications, at Indiebooksonline, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or Book Depository
Quality Oz Fiction
Ticonderoga Publications, the lovely people who’ve brought you the Australian Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror for the last four years have a special on. All four volumes in paperback for $110.00 OR hardback for $165.00.
Can say fairer than that.
Go!
Buy!
Enjoy!
Here’s the link.
January 20, 2015
Today I am working on …
“Aten disk”. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons – http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil...
… this, which will involve Nefertiti, Akhenaten, mummies, zombies and make-up.
You’re welcome.
WiP: Sobek’s Daughter
A pin stuck into the flesh of the Great Royal Wife produces no blood. This is good.
I was lucky to find her so soon; even though all the auguries had told me, still I was surprised. Surprised it was real and relieved that my master could not know how weak my faith had been. I’d been tempted to stay abed, to remain within the safety of my four walls, but duty drove me out into the night.
Fortunate to find her before the stiffening of the limbs set in, before any of her handmaidens or fine ladies-in-waiting stumbled upon her still form. Before they raised the alarm and the entire palace was plunged into mourning. Before the embalmers were called and removed her innards, her brain, the child that will ever remain unborn.
Indeed the breath had barely left her when I arrived, so it was a small matter to coax part of the shadow-soul back; a honey cake made with the milk of a black cow and sprinkled with a few drops of my own blood was enough. She is quiet and slow, obedient; not herself at all, but then she’s been strange all the length of this pregnancy. Most importantly she’s suggestible, and I have only these few days.
January 19, 2015
Is it wrong that …
… my business meetings with Kathleen Jennings involve a lot of me squeeeeeeeing at her artwork? From today’s luncheon meeting:
January 18, 2015
Midnight and Moonshine comp
The bag for the M&M competition on Goodreads has arrived!
Kathleen’s artwork for this book always makes me catch my breath.
Go here to enter.
January 17, 2015
New to Amazon: Home and Hearth
Now that the limited edition chapbooks of Home and Hearth from the lovely Spectral Press have pretty much sold out, I’ve put it up on Amazon so that more than 125 people can read it! 
You can buy it here.
Caroline’s son returns to home and hearth at last. She’s a good parent or so she tells herself. She did everything a mother could to bring Simon back, even lied for him. The only problem is that Caroline’s not sure she actually wants him here anymore. Has Simon changed? Or is he still a danger? And does it matter now that the shadows are beginning to stir in the empty rooms of Caroline’s house?
January 15, 2015
Four Horrifying Tales available on Amazon
And, as a companion to Four Dark Tales, I’ve published Four Horrifying Tales over at Amazon.
This mini-collection contains:
1. Cuckoo
2. Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
3. Frozen
4. Red Skein
You can purchase it here.
January 13, 2015
Four Dark Tales available on Amazon
Over at Amazon, I’ve put together a mini-collection of four previously published stories.
It’s designed for readers who’ve not read my work before and who’d like a taster before they commit to my other full-length collections.
You can buy Four Dark Tales here.
As time goes by, I’ll add a few more to the roster.
Ze cover is by my beloved, and the ToC is:
1. The Chrysanthemum Bride
2. Skin
3. Dresses, Three
4. The Angel Wood
January 11, 2015
The Review of Australian Fiction
The Review of Australian Fiction is undertaking a subscription drive.
A six issue, three month subscription to RAF costs $12.99 and you get two new stories each issue. RAF publishes a wide range of fiction, including spec fic – so, not your typical lit magazine.
Volume 13, the first issue of 2015, launches tomorrow with a lead story by Cate Kennedy.
Go on, you know you want to – you get fantastic fiction and the RAF gets to survive for another year. Go here, subscribe, tell your friends.
Reminder: QWC Short Story Clinic
Just a reminder for that I’m running a Short Story Clinic for Queensland Writers Centre this year.
Everyone participates by writing and submitting, reading and critiquing everyone else’s stories. So, you’ll learn more about writing craft and how to read your own and others’ work critically. And how to be constructive! If you’ve been writing for a while and want to kick your skills up to the next level, then please come along. Registration and cost details are here.
It’s an evening course, from 6pm – 8pm on the following dates:
Tuesday April 7
Tuesday May 5
Tuesday July 7
Tuesday August 4
Tuesday September 8
Tuesday October 6
