Tehani Croft Wessely's Blog, page 32

June 4, 2012

Snapshot 2012: Paul Collins

Paul Collins was born in England, raised in New Zealand and immigrated to Australia in 1972. He lives in a historic bluestone home built in 1851 with his partner, fellow author, Meredith Costain, and a menagerie of pets including a kelpie called Jack and Molly, a red heeler.


His many books for young people include The Glasshouse (illustrated by Jo Thompson) and series such as The Jelindel Chronicles, The Earthborn Wars, The Quentaris Chronicles and The World of Grrym in collaboration with Dann...

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Published on June 04, 2012 21:00

Snapshot 2012: Dirk Strasser

Dirk Strasser has written over 30 books for major publishers in Australia and has been editing magazines and anthologies since 1990. He won a Ditmar for Best Professional Achievement and has been short-listed for the Aurealis and Ditmar Awards a number of times. His fantasy novels – includingZenithandEquinox– were originally published by Pan Macmillan in Australia and Heyne Verlag in Germany. His children’s horror/fantasy novel,Graffiti, was published by Scholastic. His short fiction has been...

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Snapshot 2012: Steve Cameron

Steve Cameron began writing fiction in 2009. Born in Scotland, he was raised in Australia before residing in Japan for six years. He has worked as a police officer, an English Language instructor, a software developer, a charity store manager and currently teaches English and Drama in a Secondary College. Steve is also an amateur astronomer and musician, and resides in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne with his wife, Lindsey. He has most recently been published inFableCroft’s Epilogueand coeur...

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Published on June 04, 2012 17:00

June 3, 2012

Snapshot 2012: Keith Stevenson

Keith Stevenson is a speculative fiction editor, reviewer, podcaster and author. He’s the publisher with coeur de lion publishing, an Australian-based independent press which has, so far, picked up four Aurealis Awards, one Ditmar, one Vogel and a World Fantasy Award for its published titles. Keith began his editing career as editor of Aurealis Magazine from 2001 to 2004. He set up coeur de lion publishing in 2006 and in 2008 he became the science fiction and horror reviewer for Aurealis Maga...

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Published on June 03, 2012 21:00

Snapshot 2012: Edwina Harvey

Edwina Harvey is a writerand editor who is about to hang an “editor for hire” shingle on her e-mail door in the hope of attracting clients. Edwina combined an interest inspec fic and dolphins and whales to write a short story that got an Honorary mention in the Mary Grant Bruce Awards, and later grew into the YASF novel, The Whale’s Tale,published in 2009. She has recently co-edited the anthology, Light Touch Paper- Stand Clear with Simon Petrie. Edwina is also a silk and ceramic artist. You...

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Snapshot 2012: Sue Bursztynski

Sue Bursztynski lives in Melbourne’s beachside suburbs with a lot of pot plants and absolutely no cat. She works in the western suburbs at a state secondary school whose students get to read manuscripts from Allen and Unwin and have review copies of books not yet available in the shops, due to the fact that Sue has a review blog, The Great Raven. Sue will write just about anything as long as it’s fun and not racist or sexist. She actuallyhaswritten on just about anything over the years, with...

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Published on June 03, 2012 17:00

June 2, 2012

Snapshot 2012: Simon Haynes



Simon Haynes was born in England and grew up in Spain, where he enjoyed an amazing childhood of camping, motorbikes, air rifles and paper planes. His family moved to Australia when he was 16.


Simon has four Hal Spacejock novels, one Hal Junior novel and several short stories in print. He divides his time between writing fiction and computer software, with frequent bike rides to blow away the cobwebs.


His goal is to write fifteen Hal books (Spacejock OR Junior!) before someone takes his keyboard...

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Published on June 02, 2012 21:00

Snapshot 2012: Joanne Anderton



Jo Anderton lives in Sydney with her husband and too many pets. By day she is a mild-mannered marketing coordinator for an Australian book distributor. By night, weekends and lunchtimes she writes science fiction, fantasy and horror. Her short fiction has most recently appeared in Midnight Echo #6
and Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine. Her debut novel, Debris (Book one the Veiled Worlds series) was published by Angry Robot Books in 2011. It was a finalist for the 2011 Aurealis award for B...

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Published on June 02, 2012 19:00

Snapshot 2012: David McDonald

David McDonald is a professional geek from Melbourne, Australia, who works for an international welfare organisation. When not on a computer or reading a book, he divides his time between helping run a local cricket club and working on his upcoming novel.


He is a member of the Australian Horror Writers Association, and of the Melbourne based writers group, SuperNOVA.


1. You’ve only fairly recently burst onto the Spec Fic scene in Australia, with some short story publications, an Atheling-nomina...

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Published on June 02, 2012 17:00