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FIRE SALE! Best bargains ever!

We urgently need to free up some space, so we’ve put together a bundle of some of our back catalogue for the best price ever! Get four fabulous books for just $15.00 (plus postage!).

Worlds Next Door
Australis Imaginarium
After the Rain
To Spin a Darker Stair by Catherynne M Valente and Faith Mudge



















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Australia $30.00 AUDInternational $50.00 AUD

 

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The 2016 Peter McNamara Achievement Award: Rowena Cory Daniells

Awarded to: Rowena Cory Daniells, March 2016 at the Brisbane Natcon Contact

Judge Tehani Wessely would like to note that it has been her privilege to know Rowena for well over a decade, not just as a professional, but as one of the nicest and most hardworking people in the field. Rowena has been a mentor and friend to Tehani since she came on the scene in 2001/2002, and is a very welcoming figure in the community. Rowena continues to support writers throughout Australia with her generous advice and insights, as she has done for many years, through raising a large family and (more recently) despite personal tragedy. We are wiser for her presence, and happier for her company. She is a well-deserved recipient of this prestigious award.

Rowena Cory Daniells & Tehani Wessely (March 2016)

Rowena Cory Daniells

Known variously as RC Daniells, Cory Daniels, Rowena Cory, Rowena Lindquist and Rowena Cory Daniells, Rowena is perhaps best know within the science fiction community as a writer. However, many don’t realise how much she has done to support not only other writers within the community, but organisations and events as well.

Rowena been involved in speculative fiction since 1976 when she and Paul Collins set up the small press publishing house Cory and Collins in Melbourne, and Rowena’s first publications included cover art for several Void publications titles.

Rowena’s speculative fiction stories have appeared in magazines and anthologies both in Australia and internationally since 1997. Her first novel, The Last T’En, was published in 1999. She has subsequently published further T’En books, and several books in the King Rolen’s Kin and Outcast Chronicles series, as well as the children’s novel The Evil Overlord, teen mystery Mystery at Devon House and the crime paranormal The Price of Fame.

The 2016 trophy

She has supported the writing community by serving on the management committees of two national genre awards, as well as the Romance Writers of Australia, Queensland Writers Centre, the Brisbane Writers Festival and Fantastic Queensland. Rowena has worked in independent press, run a bookshop, served as a volunteer on state and national Arts Bodies, and organised national awards. She was instrumental in the establishment of the wRiters on the Rise (ROR) workshop group (with Marianne de Pierres), which has helped support the careers of authors such as Margo Lanagan Trent Jamieson, Richard Harland, Tansy Rayner Roberts, Maxine McArthur and Dirk Flinthart. Again with Marianne, Rowena was a founding member of the VISION writing group in 1996, the group that went on to form Fantastic Queensland, which subsequently ran Clarion South, and she served as a judge for the Aurealis Awards for five years, as well as judging short story competitions for different organisations. Rowena has set up national workshops and pitching opportunities and run workshops on writing at national SF conventions, schools and libraries and World Con 1999.

Rowena has consistently supported new writers and editors in the field, offering advice and stories without hesitation. Her professional writing work has been shortlisted for many awards over the years, such as the Norma K Hemming Award, the Romance Writers of Australia Book of the Year, and the Ned Kelly Awards, most recently including Aurealis Awards nominations for both her short story “The Giant’s Lady” and her Chronicles of King Rolen’s Kin series for the inaugural Sara Douglass Book Series Award.

 

Thank you, Rowena, for your (continuing) contribution to the field.

Pat McNamara, Rowena Cory Daniells and Sean Williams (who presented the award on Tehani’s behalf)

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Congratulations to all the Awards winners!

We were delighted to see that Cranky Ladies of History took home the Ditmar Award for Best Collected Work last night at Contact 2016, and that Kathleen Jennings also got the gong for her beautiful artwork for the book! There was strong competition in every category, so this is a real pleasure.

We didn’t have as much success in the Aurealis Awards on Friday night, but wanted to congratulate both the winners and all the finalists in every category – it was a fabulous event.

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Updates updates updates: so much going on!

The wonderful Galactic Suburbanites are hosting a giveaway of Kate Forsyth’s new non-fiction collection, The Rebirth of Rapunzel: A Mythic Biography of the Maiden in the Tower – listen to their latest episode for details to win!

The book will be officially launched THIS SATURDAY at Contact 2016, this year’s Natcon in Brisbane, at 11am Queensland time. We’d love to see you there, so RSVP through Facebook if you’re planning to attend.

If you can’t be in Brisbane, you can pre-order an ebook copy via Amazon now (it will probably drop by Thursday!) or in beautiful hardcover from your preferred retailer.

And there are just two days left to enter to win one of three copies over on Goodreads. Click and be in it!

Goodreads Book Giveaway


The Rebirth of Rapunzel
by Kate Forsyth

Giveaway ends March 23, 2016.

See the giveaway details

at Goodreads.

Enter Giveaway

Speaking of being in Brisbane, we’re waiting eagerly for the Aurealis Awards ceremony taking place on Friday night at Contact (live streamed to Swancon on the West Coast!) and the Ditmar Awards on the Sunday night as well. It’s not too late to get your membership to attend the convention, or a ticket to the Aurealis Awards (although time is running out!). Good luck to all our nominees, and to everyone on the shortlists!

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Goodreads Giveaway: The Rebirth of Rapunzel by Kate Forsyth

You have just two weeks to enter to win one of three copies of Kate Forsyth’s forthcoming book, The Rebirth of Rapunzel: A Mythic Biography of the Maiden in the Tower. It’s a fabulous collection of Kate’s research into the Rapunzel story, supplemented by related material, and is released on March 25!

 

Goodreads Book Giveaway


The Rebirth of Rapunzel
by Kate Forsyth

Giveaway ends March 23, 2016.

See the giveaway details

at Goodreads.

Enter Giveaway

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Celebrating International Women’s Day with a Cranky Ladies discount offer!

Tomorrow is International Women’s Day, and the one year anniversary of our launch of Cranky Ladies of History! To celebrate, we’re offering a whopping 50% discount on the ebook at Smashwords until March 9 (just to cover all the international bases…). You can grab a copy of the book in your preferred, DRM-free ebook format for just $5.00 – just use the coupon code SJ32H at the Smashwords checkout! 

And if you’d like to read more about some amazing women, check out the awesome blog tours from our crowd funding ride back in 2014, and the launch bubble last year.

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Pssst, want to see something cool?

Check this out!

Splashdance Silver and Liquid Gold, books one and two of the Mocklore Chronicles are coming back to print with a fabulous new cover (by the amazing Tania Walker) in this omnibus edition. More details soon!

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Cover Reveal: The Rebirth of Rapunzel by Kate Forsyth

We were very happy to send the final files for our forthcoming publication, The Rebirth of Rapunzel: A Mythic Biography of the Maiden in the Tower by Kate Forsyth, off to the printer this evening, and would now like to share the beautiful cover with you. Kathleen Jennings has once again done an outstanding job in creating distinctive and unique design elements for a stunning cover!

The book will be launched at Contact in Brisbane on the Easter weekend, and will be available in hardcover and ebook. Keep an eye out for a promo giveaway soon!

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Ditmar Voters, get your free fiction here!

To help Ditmar voters make a choice between all the amazing finalists on the ballot, we’re offering a free download of “2B” by Joanne Anderton (from Insert Title Here) and “Look How Cold My Hands Are” by Deborah Biancotti (from Cranky Ladies of History), both shortlisted for the Best Short Story category.

To download your copy, click here.

This link will be live until Ditmar voting closes – ENJOY! And if you love the stories, keep in mind that the books they come from are just as awesome, and you can grab them in print or ebook from your favourite retailer, or at the FableCroft shop page!

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We have some good news and we have some bad news…

The good news is that our wonderful designer Amanda Rainey has given us a peek at her draft for the cover of the forthcoming In Your Face anthology, and it is just as confronting and striking as we could have wished. Check it out!

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​And now the bad news. Due to many reasons, some beyond our control, we’ve had to delay the release of In Your Face. We’re now aiming for an official launch at Continuum in Melbourne on the June long weekend. We want the book to be the best it can be, and know that the June release date will help make it be so. We thank our Pozible campaign backers again for their amazing support, and look forward to bringing the book to you all.

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