Tehani Croft Wessely's Blog, page 33

A pleasant outing

We have had a busy couple of days, mostly being not at home. After soccer on Wednesday night, I had an online video presentation, for a CBCA-WA judge’s talk. I didn’t realise how challenging speaking to an audience you can’t see can be – I rely a lot on the cues from the audience to know whether to keep speaking on a particular point or move on, and I had none of that! Was tricky, but I think it went well. I received a lovely bunch of flowers from the CBCA-WA branch today (well, probably yest...

Snapshot 2012: Lian Tanner

Lian Tanner is a children’s author and playwright.Her best-selling fantasy trilogy,The Keepers,is published by Allen & Unwin in Australia, Delacorte (Random House) in the USA and Hachette in India, and has been translated into seven languages.The first book in the trilogy,Museum of Thieves, wontheAurealis Awardfor Children’s Fiction, and was shortlisted for the Independent Booksellers’ Award, the Australian Book Industry Award and the Speech Pathology Book of the Year Award. It was one of Ama...

Snapshot 2012: Margo Lanagan

Margo Lanagan has publishedfour collections of short stories — White Time, Black Juice, Red Spikes and Yellowcake — andtwo novels, Tender Morsels and Sea Hearts (published as The Brides of Rollrock Island in the UK and, in September, the US). She has won the World Fantasy Awardfour times for best collection, short story, novel and novella—she has also wonfive Aurealis Awards andfour Ditmars, and her work has been nominated for Hugo, Nebula, International Horror Guild, BSFA, Seiun, Shirley Jac...

Snapshot 2012: Dave Luckett

Dave Luckett has written three junior novels for the Omnibus Ripper range:The Adventures of Addam; The Best Batsman in the WorldandThe Last Elevenand two Shorts:Night HuntersandThe Wizard and Me.

The first book in hisTenebran Trilogy,A Dark Winterwas released to much acclaim in April 1998, and was shortlisted for the 1999 West Australian Premier’s Award. The second book in theTenebran Trilogy,A Dark Journeywas released in February 1999.A Dark Victory, book three in the trilogy, was released la...

2012 Aurealis Awards are open for entry!

SpecFaction NSW are delighted to announce that the 2012 Aurealis Awards are now open to entries.

The Aurealis Awards, Australia’s premier awards for Speculative Fiction, are for works of speculative fiction written by an Australian citizen, or permanent resident, and published for the first time between 1 January 2012 and 31 December 2012.

For more information, Award rules and the online entry form, please visit the Awards websitehttp://aurealisawards.com/

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Snapshot 2012: Paul Haines, in memoriam

Powerful and terrifying, Paul Haines’ work was never for the faint-hearted, having at its core a horrible insight into the darkest parts of what it means to be human. But if there was ever a writer whose work gave no indication of the person behind the words, it was Paul. He is missed.

Paul himself gave the impetus for this memorial Snapshot with a post he made on his blog in November 2011, reprinted below. To this, his friends Adam Browne, Matthew Chrulew, Rjurik Davidson, Brendan Duffy, Andr...

Snapshot 2012 is HERE!

The Aussie Spec Fic Snapshot has taken place three times over the past eight years. In 2005,Ben Peekspent a frantic week interviewing 43 people in the Australian spec fic scene, and since then, it’s grown every time, now takinga team of interviewers working together to accomplish! In the lead up to Continuum 8 in Melbourne, we will be blogging interviews for Snapshot 2012 conducted byAlisa Krasnostein,Kathryn Linge,David McDonald,Helen Merrick,Ian Mond,Jason Nahrung,Alex Pierce,Tansy Rayner R...

Hmm, how’s that holiday list going?

Ah, yes, five days in and already feel like there’s NOT ENOUGH TIME!!! Why does time go so quickly when you’re on break?

Sort the garage – need to be able to get the car inside, and hopefully find space for some gym gear for husband.
Sort the kids clothes – pack up too smalls, find next size up hand-me-downs for Master Two, find the baby clothes! Have done Master Two’s drawers. I’ll take that as a start!
Sort my clothes – find the maternity clothes and see what will fit for the next few months.
C...

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So it’s HOLIDAYS!

I don’t know if I can properly express how much I’ve been looking forward to these three weeks off. It’s been a very long term (15 weeks, plus a week over Easter, which should mean I felt like it WASN’T a long term, but, well…) and of course, since January we have: moved interstate; started a new job; kids have started new school & new daycare; had a major scare with Mum; five interstate trips (three to QLD, one to Sydney for the Aurealis Awards and one to Adelaide for the CBCA judging confer...