Tehani Croft Wessely's Blog, page 34
May 19, 2012
Call for submissions – CSFG anthology “next”
Thought I’d share the guidelines to the new CSFG (Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild) anthology, to be published in April 2013:
Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild is delighted to announce:
Submissions for the next CSFG Publishing anthology, ‘next’, arewelcome between 20 May and 15 October 2012.
Sequence. Succession. Cause and Effect. Show us what happened. next.
‘next’ will be edited by Simon Petrie and Rob Porteous. Stories may beany length up to 5,000 words. All approaches to the theme are welc...
May 18, 2012
New Who in Conversation: Blink (S03E10)
David is coming to New Who for the first time, having loved Classic Who as a kid. Tehani is a recent convert, and ploughed through Seasons 1 to 6 (so far) in just a few weeks after becoming addicted thanks to Matt Smith – she’s rewatching to keep up with David! Tansy is the expert in the team, with a history in Doctor Who fandom that goes WAY back, and a passion for Doctor Who that inspires us all. We’re also joined today by guest viewer Joanne Anderton, who is also discovering New Who for th...
May 17, 2012
2012 Aurealis Awards Judges
It gives me great pleasure to announce the judging teams for the 2012 Aurealis Awards. The website will be updated shortly, but I know many judges are very keen to be outed, so here they are!
FANTASY NOVEL Helen Merrick (C), Joe Marsden &Cathie Tasker
FANTASY SHORT STORY Kathryn Linge (C),Peter Hickman &Tania Walker
SF NOVEL Alex Adsett (C),Lorraine Cormack &Alex Pierce
SF SHORT STORY Ben Payne (C),Dorothy-Jane (D.J.) Daniels &Cat Sparks
HORROR Stephanie Gunn (C),Emma Kate &Rob Riel
YOUNG ADULT Lyn...
May 13, 2012
Aurealis Awards weekend
Well, the Aurealis Awards are over for another year (and just about to start over again, but let’s not talk about that now!). I’ve just spent a great afternoon and evening in Sydney with friends, colleagues and the spec fic community, at the AAs ceremony, wonderfully hosted by SpecFaction NSW. It was a night of glitz and glam (nice frocking up people!), great conversations, catching up and meeting new people. And awards! It was my great pleasure to help present the Galactic Suburbia team with...
May 7, 2012
New baby – first pic!
I think I forgot to announce it here – we are expecting our fourth baby in November! The kids (particularly Miss 6) are very excited, as are we! Had a scan today, at 13 weeks and saw all the right things for a growing creature to have (arms, legs – two of each – brain, heart etc!). Picture proof! This also helps explain my illness and lack of energy for the past couple of months – I knew, but I wasn’t telling!
Tagged: Babies, family
May 6, 2012
Weekend achievements
I so desperately look forward to weekends at the moment, and never achieve as much as I’d like, but am overall okay with what we did this past two days. Managed to finally clear the mountains of washing and ironing – everything is AWAY where it belongs, for the first time since early April I think! This also meant I watched the latest Fringe and a few episodes of Lost Girl, which is a bonus.
I got all enthused this morning and cleaned bathrooms, kitchen and floors – yay for new vacuum cleaner!...
May 3, 2012
New Who in Conversation: Human Nature/The Family of Blood (S03E08/09)
David is coming to New Who for the first time, having loved Classic Who as a kid. Tehani is a recent convert, and ploughed through Seasons 1 to 6 (so far) in just a few weeks after becoming addicted thanks to Matt Smith – she’s rewatching to keep up with David! Tansy is the expert in the team, with a history in Doctor Who fandom that goes WAY back, and a passion for Doctor Who that inspires us all. We’re going to work our way through New Who, using season openers and closers, and Hugo shortli...
April 30, 2012
Aurealis Awards: call for judges
Applications are now open for the 2012 Aurealis Awards judging panels.
SpecFaction, organisers of the 2012 Aurealis Awards, are seeking expressions of interest from people who would like to judge for the Awards.
Judges are volunteers and are drawn from the Australian speculative fiction community, from diverse professions and backgrounds, including academics, booksellers, librarians, published authors, publishing industry professionals, reviewers and enthusiasts. The only qualification necessar...
April 29, 2012
Did I get it all done?
Well, mostly!
Conquer the washing
Conquer the folding, ironing and putting away. Yeah, didn’t get to the ironing – will quickly do the school uniforms for tomorrow, but the rest will have to wait.
FinaliseEpilogueand get it to the printer.
Proofreading job for Twelfth Planet Press (sorry Alisa!).
Answer some important, neglected emails.
Watch newFringeandOnce Upon a Time(to be achieved while folding etc). OUAT, but am up to date of Fringe!
Tagged: busy
