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February 19, 2017
The Aurealis Award shortlists have been released.
And I’m on three of them. Three! I’m like a goldfish knocked out of the tank here, rolling around and gaping. Honestly, the Aurealis Awards are the premier Australian award for spec fic and the shortlists are always astounding. To be nominated in three categories is mind-blowing. I’ve been shortlisted for Best Collection for Crow Shine, Best Horror Novella for “Served Cold” (from the Dreaming in the Dark anthology), and Best Fantasy Novella for “Raven’s First Flight” (from the SNAFU: Black Ops anthology). And I’m in some amazingly august company. I’ll be over here Snoopy dancing. Meanwhile, here are all the shortlists in full.
2016 Aurealis Awards – Finalists
BEST CHILDREN’S FICTION
Blueberry Pancakes Forever, Angelica Banks (Allen & Unwin)
Magrit, Lee Battersby (Walker Books Australia)
Somebody Stop Ivy Pocket, Caleb Crisp (Bloomsbury)
The Turners, Mick Elliott (Hachette Australia)
When the Lyrebird Calls, Kim Kane (Allen & Unwin)
The Hungry Isle, Emily Rodda (Omnibus Books)
BEST GRAPHIC NOVEL / ILLUSTRATED WORK
Mechanica, Lance Balchin (Five Mile)
BROBOT, James Foley (Fremantle Press)
Negative Space, Ryan K Lindsay (Dark Horse Comics)
The Spider King, Josh Vann (self-published)
BEST YOUNG ADULT SHORT STORY
“A Right Pretty Mate”, Lisa L Hannett ( Dreaming in the Dark)
“Dune Time”, Jack Nicholls (Tor.com)
“N o One Here is Going to Save You”, Shauna O’Meara ( In Your Face, FableCroft Publishing)
“Did We Break t he End of the World?”, Tansy Rayner Roberts ( Defying Doomsday, Twelfth Planet
Press)
“Pretty Jennie Greenteeth”, Leife Shallcross ( Strange Little Girls, Belladonna Publishing)
BEST HORROR SHORT STORY
“Non Zero Sum”, RPL Johnson ( SNAFU: Hunters, Cohesion Press)
“Flame Trees”, TP Napper ( Asimov’s Science Fiction, April/May 2016)
“Pen ny for a Match, Mister?”, Garth Nix ( The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales, Saga Press)
“T he Red Forest”, Angela Slatter ( Winter Children and Other Chilling Tales, PS Publishing)
“68 Days”, Kaaron Warren ( Tomorrow’s Cthulhu, Broken Eye Books )
“Life, or Whatever Passes For It”, Durand Welsh ( Peel Back the Skin, Grey Matter Press )
BEST HORROR NOVELLA
“Box of Bones”, Jeremy Bates (Ghillinnein Books)
“Served Cold”, Alan Baxter ( Dreaming in the Dark, PS Publishing)
“Waking in Winter”, Deborah Biancotti (PS Publishing)
“Burnt Sugar”, Kirstyn McDermott ( Dreaming in the Dark, PS Publishing)
“Pan”, Christopher Ruz ( Andromeda Spaceways Magazine #62)
BEST FANTASY SHORT STORY
“Watercress Soup”, Tamlyn Dreaver ( Andromeda Spaceways Magazine #65)
“Where the Pelican Builds Her Nest”, Thoraiya Dyer ( In Your Face, FableCroft Publishing)
“Dune Time”, Jack Nicholls (Tor.com)
“Penny for a Match, Mister?”, Garth Nix ( The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales, Saga Press)
“The Lighthouse at Cape Defeat”, David Versace ( Aurealis #89 )
“The Cartographer’s Price”, Suzanne Willis ( Mythic Delirium Issue 3.1)
BEST FANTASY NOVELLA
“Raven’s First Flight”, Alan Baxter ( SNAFU: Black Ops, Cohesion Press)
“By the Laws of Crab and Woman”, Jason Fischer ( Review of Australian Fiction)
“Forfeit”, Andrea K. Höst ( The Towers, the Moon, self-published)
The Bonobo’s Dream, Rose Mulready (Seizure Press)
“Burnt Sugar”, Kirstyn McDermott ( Dreaming in the Dark, PS Publishing)
“Finnegan’s Field”, Angela Slatter (Tor.com)
BEST SCIENCE FICTION SHORT STORY
“Trainspotting in Winesburg”, Jack Dann ( Concentration, PS Publishing)
“The Baby Eaters”, Ian McHugh ( Asimov’s Science Fiction 40/1)
“The Autumn Dog Cannot Live to Spring”, Claire McKenna ( In Your Face, Fablecroft)
“Of Sight, of Mind, of Heart”, Samantha Murray ( Clarkesworld #122)
“68 Days”, Kaaron Warren ( Tomorrow’s Cthulu, Broken Eye Books)
“The Least of Things”, Jen White ( Aurealis #94)
BEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVELLA
Waking in Winter, Deborah Biancotti (PS Publishing)
“Salto Mortal”, Nick T Chan ( Lightspeed #73)
“Going Viral”, Thoraiya Dyer ( Dimension6 #8, coeur de lion)
The Bonobo’s Dream, Rose Mulready (Seizure Press)
“All the Colours of the Tomato”, Simon Petrie ( Dimension6 #9, coeur de lion)
“Did We Break the End of the World?”, Tansy Rayner Roberts ( Defying Doomsday, Twelfth Planet
Press)
BEST COLLECTION
Crow Shine, Alan Baxter (Ticonderoga Publications)
Concentration, Jack Dann (PS Publishing)
A Feast of Sorrows, Angela Slatter (Prime)
Winter Children, Angela Slatter (PS Publishing)
BEST ANTHOLOGY
Dreaming in the Dark, Jack Dann (ed.) (PS Publishing Australia)
Defying Doomsday, Tsana Dolichva and Holly Kench (eds.) (Twelfth Planet Press)
Year’s Best YA Speculative Fiction 2015, Julia Rios and Alisa Krasnostein (eds.) (Twelfth Planet
Press)
Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 10, Jonathan Strahan (ed.) (Solaris)
In Your Face, Tehani Wessely (ed.) (Fablecroft Publishing)
BEST YOUNG ADULT NOVEL
Elegy, Jane Abbott (Penguin Random House Australia)
The Bone Queen, Alison Croggon (Penguin Books Australia)
The Other Side of Summer, Emily Gale (Penguin Random House Australia)
Lady Helen and the Dark Days Pact, Alison Goodman (HarperCollins Publishers)
Gemina: Illuminae Files 2, Amy Kaufman & Jay Kristoff (Allen & Unwin)
Goldenhand, Garth Nix (Allen & Unwin)
BEST HORROR NOVEL
Fear is the Rider, Kenneth Cook (Text Publishing)
My Sister Rosa, Justine Larbalestier (Allen & Unwin)
The Grief Hole, Kaaron Warren (IFWG Publishing Australia)
BEST FANTASY NOVEL
Nevernight, Jay Kristoff (Harper Voyager)
Fall of the Dagger, Glenda Larke (Hachette Australia)
Den of Wolves, Juliet Marillier (Pan Macmillan Australia)
Vigil, Angela Slatter (Jo Fletcher Books)
Road to Winter, Mark Smith (Text Publishing)
Sisters of the Fire, Kim Wilkins (Harlequin Australia)
BEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL
Watershed, Jane Abbott ( Penguin Random House)
Confluence, SK Dunstall (Ace Books)
Gemina: Illuminae Files 2, Amy Kaufman & Jay Kristoff (Allen & Unwin)
Squid’s Grief, DK Mok (self-published)
Stiletto, Daniel O’Malley (Harper Collins Publishers)
Threader, Rebekah Turner (Harlequin Australia)
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February 14, 2017
Ditmar Awards are open for nominations.
As mentioned in my previous post, any popular award is at its best when as many people as possible get involved. As the Australian Ditmar Awards have just opened for nominations, I’m sharing the links here to make it easy for as many people as possible to get into it. So think about what you’ve read, check anyone’s eligibility post, and get nominating!
The rules are here: http://wiki.sf.org.au/Ditmar_rules
You can see a pretty thorough eligibility list here: http://wiki.sf.org.au/2017_Ditmar_eligibility_list
And nominating is very easy with this online form: http://ditmars.sf.org.au/2017/nominations.html
Get to it.
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Awards eligibility post.
Among a bunch of posts lost in the recent hack was the annual awards eligibility post I always put up, so I’m redoing that one. I think it’s a great idea for writers to do this and I always appreciate it when others do, as it helps remind me what’s been published in the previous year for when I’m making my own awards nominations. And as we all know, the more people involved in the awards processes, the more accurately those awards reflect the will of the general public rather than the will of a few determined folk.
So get reading, and get nominating!
For me this year, the following stuff is eligible in the categories listed.
Best Collected Work
My debut short fiction collection was published last year and I’m very proud of it. I’d love to see it get a few nods on some shortlists, so if you’ve enjoyed it, please give it your vote. There are also three original short stories in the collection that are also eligible, which I’ll list below.
Best Novella or Novelette
(A Novella or Novelette is any work of sf/f/h of 7,500 to 40,000 words.)
“Served Cold”, Alan Baxter, in Dreaming in the Dark, PS Publishing.
“Golden Fortune, Dragon Jade”, Alan Baxter, in And Then… 1, Clan Destine Press.
“Raven’s First Flight”, Alan Baxter, in SNAFU: Black Ops, Cohesion Press
Best Short Story
(A Short Story is any work of sf/f/h less than 7,500 words.)
“A Strong Urge To Fly”, Alan Baxter, in Crow Shine, Ticonderoga Publications.
“Crow Shine”, Alan Baxter, in Crow Shine, Ticonderoga Publications.
“The Old Magic”, Alan Baxter, in Crow Shine, Ticonderoga Publications.
“Bodies of Evidence”, Alan Baxter, in In Your Face, FableCroft Publishing.
“Under Calliope’s Skin”, Alan Baxter, in SNAFU: Future Warfare, Cohesion Press.
So that’s my stuff. Be sure to post your own eligible work and make sure we know about it.
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Hacked
So a bunch of people with nothing better to do keep trying to hack my site. I think it’s finally locked down, but a bunch of my most recent posts have been deleted. Rather than try to restore a back up, I’m just going to let them go. Like a leaf on the wind…
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January 17, 2017
Hacked By Black Sniper
Hacked By Black Sniper skype:rootinamail
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Bound is international! And another Year’s Best.
It’s been a long time coming, but Bound: Alex Caine Book 1, is finally available EVERYWHERE! In paperback and ebook with that sweet cover by Shawn King, you can buy it wherever you usually shop. Your local bookstore may have it, but if not they can order it in for you. Same goes for your library. US and UK peeps especially, if you’re a library goer, please ask your local library to get it in. That’s a huge benefit to authors in terms of discoverability.
So tell your friends and family, colleagues at work, that one bloke with the weird dog across the road. Hell, even tell that guy who loiters in alleys and shouts at the bins. Tell everyone! And if you read it and enjoy it, I’d love it if you could leave a quick Amazon and/or Goodreads review. Those things really do help. If you get the paperback, post a pic on your social media with it, because I haven’t seen one yet.
And in some other awesome news, Ticonderoga have announced their latest volume of the Year’s Best Australian Fantasy & Horror, and it includes my cosmic weird pirate story, “The Chart of the Vagrant Mariner”. Such an honour and the rest of the stories in it are amazing. You can pre-order that one here.
The stories are:
Joanne Anderton, “2B”
Alan Baxter, “The Chart of the Vagrant Mariner”
Deborah Biancotti, “Look How Cold My Hands Are”
Stephen Dedman, “Oh, Have You Seen The Devil”
Erol Engin, “The Events at Callan Park”
Jason Fischer, “The Dog Pit”
Dirk Flinthart, “In the Blood”
Kimberley Gaal, “In Sheep’s Clothing”
Stephanie Gunn, “The Flowers That Bloom Where Blood Touches Earth”
Lisa Hannett, “Consorting With Filth”
Robert Hood, “Double Speak”
Kathleen Jennings, “A Hedge of Yellow Roses”
Maree Kimberley, “Ninehearts”
Jay Kristoff, “Sleepless”
Martin Livings, “El Caballo Muerte”
Danny Lovecraft, “Reminiscences of Herbert West”
Kirstyn McDermott, “Self, Contained”
Sally McLennan, “ Mr Schmidt’s Dead Pet Emporium”
DK Mok, “Almost Days”
Faith Mudge, “Blueblood”
Samantha Murray, “Half Past”
Jason Nahrung, “Night Blooming”
Garth Nix, “The Company of Women”
Anthony Panegyres, “Lady Killer”
Rivqa Rafael, “Beyond the Factory Wall”
Deborah Sheldon, “Perfect Little Stitches”
Angela Slatter, “Bluebeard’s Daughter”
Cat Sparks, “Dragon Girl”
Lucy Sussex, “Angelito”
Anna Tambour, “Tap”
Kaaron Warren, “Mine Intercom”
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January 6, 2017
Awards eligibility post
I always appreciate it when people post around this time and remind me what work they’ve released the previous year that’s eligible for awards. It’s a good reminder so we know we haven’t missed anything when we’re making our Stoker Award, Hugo, Nebula, Ditmar, etc. recommendations or votes. So here’s my post with stuff released last year (2016) that’s eligible for those awards and others. If you’re a voting member or active in fandom and think any of this stuff is worthy, I thank you heartily in advance. And if you are eligible to nominate or vote in any awards, please do so! The awards are always better when more people are involved – it’s a truer representation of what’s good and popular in any given year.
Here’s my stuff:
COLLECTIONS:
Crow Shine (Ticonderoga Publications, November 2016) – I would love for this book to get some attention, and it also contained three original stories, listed below.
SHORT FICTION:
“Crow Shine” – Original story in my collection, Crow Shine (Ticonderoga Publications, November 2016)
“Old Magic Fades” – Original story in my collection, Crow Shine (Ticonderoga Publications, November 2016)
“A Strong Urge To Fly” – Original story in my collection, Crow Shine (Ticonderoga Publications, November 2016)
“Served Cold” – Novelette – Dreaming in the Dark anthology (ed. Jack Dann, PS Publishing, November 2016)
“Raven’s First Flight” – Novelette – SNAFU: Black Ops anthology (ed. G Brown & A J Spedding, Cohesion Press, December 2016)
“Bodies of Evidence” – In Your Face anthology (ed. Tehani Wesseley, Fablecroft Publications, June 2016)
“Under Calliope’s Skin” – SNAFU: Future Warfare anthology (ed. Geoff Brown and A J Spedding, Cohesion Press, May 2016)
NOVELS:
Bound: Alex Caine Book 1 in the US and UK (Ragnarok Publications, December 2016) – I’ve put this last as it’s only eligible for awards that recognise first North American publication, as it came out in Australia in 2014, so it’s not new by the standards of most awards. I’m not entirely sure if there is anything like that, but there you go. I love this book, so it needs a mention.
So that’s my stuff. If you’re a writer and you’ve had publications, be sure to post about them. Fuck the haters who think it’s bad taste to post about your work like this – you’re damn right you should celebrate your kickass achievements. I’m bloody proud of mine. We work hard and should be able to enjoy that. If you’re a fan or reader, get involved with nominating and voting wherever you can.
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November 14, 2016
Hacked By D.R.S Dz Team | Fouzi Baws-Dz here
Hacked By D.R.S Dz Team | Fouzi Baws-Dz here
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