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March 16, 2017
How Lee Battersby Signs Books @battersblog
What kind of books does Lee Battersby write?Speculative fiction for adults and children.
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Lee Battersby is the author of the children’s novel ‘Magrit’ (2016) as well as the humorous fantasy novels ‘The Corpse-Rat King’ (2012) and ‘The Marching Dead’ (2013) as well as over 80 short stories. A collection of his work, entitled “Through Soft Air” from Prime Books. He’s taught at Clarion South and developed and delivered a six-week “Writing the SF Short Story” course for the Australian Writers Marketplace. His work has been praised for its consistent attention to voice and narrative muscle, and has resulted in a number of awards including the Aurealis, Australia Shadows and Australia S F ‘Ditmar’ gongs. He lives in Rockingham, Western Australia, with his wife, writer Lyn Battersby. He is sadly obsessed with Lego, Nottingham Forest football club, dinosaurs and Daleks.
Where can I find out even more about this fabulous author?
Lee lives online at leebattersby.com and copies entries over to his long-running blog at The Battersblog.
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March 15, 2017
How @MJHearle Signs Books
What kind of books does MJ Hearle write?While he dislikes genre classifications, there are some clues in the bio below!
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M.J. Hearle was born in Port Macquarie, a small coastal town on the Mid-North coast of Australia. Addicted to stories from a young age, it was somewhat inevitable that he turned to dealing them himself. Most of those stories tend to be scary or fantastic or magical or a combination of all three. He dislikes genre classifications, feeling they are both reductive and unnecessarily exclusive. His first novel, Winter’s Shadow, was published by Pan Macmillan in 2011, Winter’s Light followed in 2012, and Claudette in the Shadows in 2013. M.J. Hearle lives with his wife, Greta, son, Bailey, and daughter, India, in Glebe, Sydney. Daleks.
Where can I find out even more about this fabulous author?
Visit mjhearle.com to read his ramblings or buy his books.
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March 14, 2017
How @DionneLister Signs Books
What kind of books does Dionne Lister write?She writes epic fantasy both YA and adult.
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Dionne is a writer and editor from Sydney. She has an Associate Degree of Creative writing through Southern Cross University. She loves reading, writing and entertaining people with her stories. She writes books, web copy, articles, suspenseful short stories and her blog posts try to be funny. She’s also released an action-packed epic fantasy/adventure trilogy, adult epic fantasy, and a book of suspenseful short stories. She’s recently spoken at the Sydney Writers Festival.
Where can I find out even more about this fabulous author?
You can find her stuff on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo and iTunes. Join her on Twitter @DionneLister or Facebook. Her website is at dionnelisterwriter.com/
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March 13, 2017
How @KimFalconer Signs Books
What kind of books does Kim Falconer write?Over the next three years, Kim will be primarily writing YA Fantasy.
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Kim Falconer is an Urban Fantasy/SF/F and Paranormal Romance author, academic, gardener, lover of cats, yoga, Good Vibe Astrologer, the sea & professional daydreamer. Currently she’s working on a Young Adult fantasy series, recently acquired in the USA (details will be released soon!) Book One is coming out in 2018.
Where can I find out even more about this fabulous author?
Connect to Kim on the Kim Falconer Author Facebook Page.
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March 12, 2017
How @AlanBaxter Signs Books
What kind of books does Alan Baxter write?
Supernatural thrillers and urban horror.
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Alan Baxter is a British-Australian author who writes supernatural thrillers and urban horror, rides a motorcycle and loves his dog. He also teaches Kung Fu. He lives among dairy paddocks on the beautiful south coast of NSW, Australia, with his wife, son, dog and cat. He’s the multi-award-winning author of several novels and over seventy short stories and novellas. So far.
Where can I find out even more about this fabulous author?
Read extracts from his novels, a novella and short stories at his website – warriorscribe.com – or find him on Twitter @AlanBaxter and Facebook, and feel free to tell him what you think. About anything.
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March 11, 2017
How Richard Harland Signs Books
What kind of books does Richard Harland write?
Steampunk, fantasy, SF and horror for Adult, Young Adult and Children’s audiences.
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Richard was a university lecturer for ten years until he had the chance to become a full-time author—and jumped at it. Before that, he was a folk musician and a poet who once did a poetry reading at the Sydney Opera House. But his deepest wish was always to write novels, and after twenty-five years of writer’s block, he finally managed to finish his first novel at the age of forty-five.
What he writes is fantasy, SF and horror, for Adult, Young Adult and Children’s readerships. Since turning author, he’s had seventeen novels published by Allen & Unwin, Penguin, Pan Macmillan and Scholastic. His latest books have been his most successful: the steampunk YA fantasies Worldshaker, Liberator and Song of the Slums, which were also published in US, UK, France, Germany and Brazil. He’s won six Aurealis Awards for novels and short stories; also the prestigious Tam Tam Je Bouquine Award in France; and the A. Bertram Chandler Award for lifetime contribution to speculative fiction.
Where can I find out even more about this fabulous author?
His author website is at www.richardharland.net, and he aims to keep writing forever! Note also his writing tips at writingtips.com.au.
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March 10, 2017
How @SamHawkeWrites Signs Books
What kind of books does Sam Hawke write?
Fantasy.
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Sam Hawke has wanted to write books since realising as a child that they didn’t just breed between themselves in libraries. Having contemplated careers as varied as engineer, tax accountant and zookeeper, Sam eventually settled on the law. After marrying her jujitsu training partner and travelling to as many countries as possible, Sam now resides in Canberra raising two small ninjas and two idiot dogs. Her debut epic fantasy, City of Lies, the first book in the Poison War series, is due out from Tor in July 2018.
Where can I find out even more about this fabulous author?
You can find Sam online at samhawkewrites.com, on Twitter as @samhawkewrites and on Facebook as facebook.com/samhawkewrites
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March 9, 2017
How @AndrewMcKiernan Signs Books
What kind of books does Andrew J McKiernan write?
Mainly horror, dark-fantasy, crime and science fiction. But, he says, he actually has no preferences, “because I believe that genre is for marketing departments and bookstore shelves, and not something an author should be concerned about :)”.
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Andrew J. McKiernan is a writer and illustrator from the Central Coast of New South Wales. First published in 2007, his stories have since been short-listed for multiple Aurealis, Ditmar, and Australian Shadows awards, as well as being reprinted internationally and in a number of Year’s Best anthologies. His short story collection, ‘Last Year, When We Were Young’, was awarded the 2014 AHWA Australian Shadows Award for Best Collected Work. “The Message” was recently optioned to be produced as a short film by award-winning Australian director Tom Spark.
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March 8, 2017
How @KaaronWarren Signs Books
What kind of books does Kaaron Warren write?
Horror and science fiction.
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Kaaron Warren has lived in Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra and Fiji. She’s sold more than 200 short stories, four novels (the multi-award-winning Slights, Walking the Tree and Mistification and her latest novel, The Grief Hole) and six short story collections including the multi-award-winning Through Splintered Walls.
Where can I find out even more about this fabulous author?
https://kaaronwarren.wordpress.com/
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March 7, 2017
How Keith Stevenson Signs Books @stevenson_keith
What kind of books does Keith Stevenson write?Science fiction.
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Keith Stevenson is probably best known for being editor of Aurealis – Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine – from 2001 to 2004 and publisher with multi-award winning Australian independent press coeur de lion publishing from 2006 onwards. He also hosted 30 episodes of the Terra Incognita Speculative Fiction (TISF) Podcast from 2008 to 2011. He edits and produces the free and DRM-free Dimension6 speculative fiction electronic magazine three times a year. His long fiction includes Horizon (HarperCollins Voyager), a deep space exploration political and ecological thriller/ murder mystery, which is now only $2.99, and the three book Lenticular series, a galaxy-spanning space opera of species slaughter, subjugation and treachery, which is currently in development. His short fiction has appeared in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Aurealis Magazine, Oceans of the Mind and the Agog! Press anthology Agog! Fantastic Fiction. You can download his short story collection for free at http://dl.bookfunnel.com/o1qizj33hg.
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