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Transcript of my Twitter interview

So I just enoyed my first interview on Twitter. It was all a bit bizarre, but a good laugh. Those good people over at AustLiterature have a Twitter weblog called Tweet An Aussie Author and they were kind enough to catch and post a transcript of the whole thing. It looks a bit like this:

Transcript: Alan Baxter Interview

RyanASpan: Welcome everyone to our very first Twitterview with @AlanBaxter. Alan, what was the first time you knew you wanted to be a writer?

AlanBaxter...

Interview on Twitter tomorrow

Just a quick reminder that I'll be interviewed on Twitter tomorrow. As per my previous post:

I'm going to be having a Twitterview… Twinterview… whatever.

I'm being interviewed on Twitter on Tusday 19th January by Ryan Span. It's an interactive sorta thing, so people can come along and ask me questions along with Ryan and I'll try to keep up. It's a bit experimental so I have no idea how it'll go, or even if anyone will bother tagging along, but we'll see.

If you're interested it'll be on at...

Australian spec fic till your eyes bleed

The Australian speculative fiction blog carnival is off to a galloping start for 2010. You can find the January collected posts at Egoboo WA.

There's loads of stuff there, including a few bits by yours truly. Things about Continuum, Natcon, feminism in spec fic and the furore surrounding it, reviews, fiction, interviews, publishing news, giveaways. By Odin's Mighty Bollocks, it'll take you till next month just to get through it all.

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Interview on Twitter on Tuesday 19th

I'm going to be having a Twitterview… Twinterview… whatever.

I'm being interviewed on Twitter on Tusday 19th Januray by Ryan Span. It's an interactive sorta thing, so people can come along and ask me questions along with Ryan and I'll try to keep up. It's a bit experimental so I have no idea how it'll go, or even if anyone will bother tagging along, but we'll see.

If you're interested it'll be on at 11pm GMT on Monday 18th, which is 10am EST Australian on Tuesday 19th January. Hopefully anyone ...

Blade Red Press Dark Pages ToC announced

My indie publisher Blade Red Press has announced the Table of Contents for the Dark Pages Anthology. The book is due out in the first half of this year. Now that the stories are chosen it's just a matter of the authors and editors polishing things up and then I'll do all the production stuff. You should be able to buy the book from Amazon in a couple of months if all goes well.

Here's the ToC:

The Stain of the Psychopomp King by Lucien E G Spelman
Heart Of Ice by Martin Livings
Neptune's Garden

Happy Xmas to me

I've been using a fitball at my desk for years. It was an attempt to keep some kind of decent posture during all the hours I spend at my computer. What it actually did, however, was subsconciously teach me numerous ways to slump and slouch on a fitball. Bugger this, I thought. So I've just bought myself a late Xmas present.

It's leather and everything. You know the most outrageous thing about it, though? Given that we have an old house with wooden floors, I thought I'd better get one of those ...

A strange and honest story

Okay, you might think it's pretty weird that I'd post something like this on my blog, but take a moment and read through to the end. It's pretty rare that someone can be so honest about their life and it's really worth the read. Trust me.

Before you read this: Please don't judge me… I'm just sharing my story because people asked…

Wow… okay, I wasn't sure if I was ever going to tell anyone about this, but it's late and I'm sleep deprived so i guess I'll just write it now and regret it in the...

Genre Flash 4

Not be mistaken for anything to do with flash fiction, Genre Flash 4 is a PDF magazine listing "The best Australian genre fiction and true crime." It's a 24 page magazine that lists all sorts of genre fiction novels and true crime books by Australians, along with a run down of the content, where you can find them and so on. It's an informative little package.

There's also an interview with Fiona McIntosh and an article called "A Passage To Neverland" by Stephen Lord.

Full colour, very slick...

Tweet and google word of the year and decade

Further to the interesting discussion following this post, I was interested to read today over at Visual Thesaurus that "tweet" has been named the word of the year and "google" (in its verb form) has been named word of the decade.

Given that Google are actively campaigning against the use of "to google" as it dilutes their brand I find this particularly hilarious. "Tweet" is also a registered trademark, as it happens.

Also voted on by those crazy Americans was Most Useful, which turned out to b...

There's always time for a lesson

From the awesome Failblog.

Well done, madam. Well done indeed.

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