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Snapshot 2010: Kate Orman

Kate Orman is the author of many Doctor Who (and one Bernice Summerfield) novels, novellas and short stories. She lives in Sydney with her husband and co-author Jonathan Blum.

1. You have an essay appearing shortly in Chicks Dig Time Lords, a book I was very excited to hear about! Can you tell us a little about the book, and your contribution?

It is tremendously exciting! A lot has been written about female fans, but not much specifically about female Doctor Who fans. I reminisce about my...

Snapshot 2010: Rhonda Roberts

Rhonda Roberts has a PhD and worked as an academic specialising in the sociology of knowledge systems in different cultures and historical periods. She trained in Aikido in Japan and now learns Tai Chi near her home in the Illawarra.

1. Your book completely leapt out at me when I saw it on the shelves a few months ago – an Australian series about time travel and Ancient Rome is a marvellous combination! What was it about Ancient Rome that made you want to use it as the backdrop of your first...

Snapshot 2010: Karen Healey

Karen Healey is a New Zealander living in Australia doing a PhD on American superhero comics. Her debut novel, Guardian of the Dead, a YA contemporary fantasy set in New Zealand, comes out in April.

1. Your book already has lots of people buzzing – the blurbs on your website include enthusiastic recommendations from Holly Black, Libba Bray, Justine Larbalestier and Sarah Rees Brennan! I was particularly interested to learn that your teen girl protagonist is neither slim nor conventionally...

Snapshot 2010: Deborah Biancotti

Deborah Biancotti's first short story won an Aurealis Award in 2001, and her first collection, A BOOK OF ENDINGS, was shortlisted for the William L. Crawford Award 2010. She is now working on her first novel, working title BROKEN, and has new fiction launching at WorldCon in September.

1. A Book of Endings has been building steam, with many people locally and overseas singling it out as a great collection. Did you achieve everything you hoped to with this book? What did you learn from the...

Snapshot 2010: Peter M. Ball

Peter M. Ball is a Brisbane writer who attended Clarion South in 2007. His novella, Horn, was published by Twelfth Planet Press in 2009 and his most recent short stories have appeared in Strange Horizons, Apex Magazine, Shimmer, and the Interfictions II anthology. He can be found online at www.petermball.com.

1. Horn has had such great feedback, from reviewers and readers. How

are you following it up, and are we going to see Miriam Aster in full-length novels someday?

The impetus for Horn was ...

Snapshot 2010: Trent Jamieson

Trent Jamieson lives in Brisbane with his wife, Diana. His first novel Death Most Definite is due out from Orbit in August 2010.

1. Death Most Definite is due out soon! How would you describe the novel to someone who has never heard of it?

It's a love story about Death set in Brisbane. There is mystery and murder and explosions, and it's a retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice tale, but with talking knives and zombies. It's the most fun I've ever had writing anything and I hope people enjoy...

Snapshot 2010: Lezli Robyn

Lezli Robyn is an Australian writer who wrote and sold her first couple of stories to Clarkesworld and Jim Baen's Universe in the closing months of 2008. In the year since then she has made 15 further story sales, selling to markets such as Asimov's, Analog, Tor's 50th Anniversary Twilight Zone Anthology, Hadley Rille Books' Origins anthology (celebrating the 150th Anniversary of Darwin's "Origins of the Species"), and other science fiction markets as distant as China, Russia, Poland, Italy, ...

Snapshot 2010: Glenda Larke

Glenda Larke is an Australian living in Malaysia, author of nine fantasy novels with the tenth coming out this year, published both in Australia, abroad and in translation. She had been shortlisted for the Aurealis Awards five times. When not writing, she works in rainforest conservation, particularly of avifauna.

1. What can you tell us about your new trilogy, the Watergivers?

It's an epic about an arid world and two young people who find themselves the target of power hungry men because...

Snapshot 2010: Rowena Cory Daniells

Rowena Cory Daniells writes for both children and adults. Her new Fantasy series 'King Rolen's Kin' will be published by SOLARIS in 2010.

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1. King Rolen's Kin will be released From Solaris in July, August and September this year. What can you tell us about these books?

This is the kind of series that you read on a Saturday afternoon after you've worked hard all week and you just want to be swept away to another ...

Snapshot 2010: Justine Larbalestier

Justine Larbalestier is a writer.

1. What most pleased and most disappointed you about last year's release of Liar, and the public response to it?

The response to Liar has been very intense. It is the most loved (and hated) of my books to date. Some of the letters teens have been writing me about Liar have made me cry. Especially the ones from readers who identify so strongly with Micah and her isolation. It's been a very moving experience and I'm thrilled the book has been so important for...