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March 5, 2012
Tuesday Toot – Deborah Biancotti
Tuesday Toot is a semi-regular feature here at The Word. An invite-only series of short posts where writers, editors, booksellers and other creatives have been asked to share their stuff and toot their own horn. It's hard to be seen in the digital morass and hopefully this occasional segment will help some of the quality stuff out there get noticed. It should all be things that readers of The Word will find edifying.
Today it's Deborah Biancotti.
Who is Deborah?
I'm a Sydney-based fiction writer whose first story won an Aurealis Award (Best Horror short) and first collection, A BOOK OF ENDINGS, was shortlisted for the William L. Crawford Award for Best First Fantasy Book. Though right at this exact moment I'm working on novellas and novels.
What are you tooting about?
My second collection is out from Twelfth Planet Press. It's a short story suite about the consequences of being especially gifted or powerful in a world that doesn't encourage that. It's part of the TWELVE PLANETS series, and it's called BAD POWER.
To quote one blog review, it's a world that has 'super powers but no superheroes', where the victories are relative and the defeats are absolute (to paraphrase my own back cover blurb).
There are five interlinked stories in the book, each from the point of view of a different character, though most of the stories fall into the genre of contemporary supernatural police procedural. Hence we're calling it a 'pocketbook police procedural'. Nifty, eh?
The one character who appears more than anyone else is Detective Enora Palmer. She's the kind of character I describe as a 'beautiful fuckup'. I mean, she's really trying hard to do some good, you know? And the world, my friends, does not give brownie points for trying to do good. The world does not differentiate, it does not bless the deserving or punish the evil. The world breaks everyone roughly about equally, as Hemingway taught me.
It also has an awesome introduction by Ann Vandermeer.
Oh, and it's short. Only 30,000 words. A quick read!
Where to buy the book: http://www.twelfthplanetpress.com/store-items/bad-power
Where to find Deborah:
http://deborahbiancotti.net
http://deborahb.livejournal.com
http://www.facebook.com/deborahbiancotti
http://www.goodreads.com/deborahbiancotti
https://twitter.com/deborah_b
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Paul Richard Haines 8 June 1970 – 5 March 2012
Paul Richard Haines 8 June 1970 – 5 March 2012
I'm writing this with tears running down my cheeks, and they're tears of impotent fucking rage as much as sadness. I may make very little sense over the next few paragraphs, but I can't do anything else, so I'm writing this down. Excuse me if I rant and ramble, feel free to ignore this. Today my friend and writing inspiration, Paul Haines, died of cancer, after a battle of incredible determination and will. I can't express enough my sympathy and condolences to his wife, Jules, and their little girl, Isla, as well as to the rest of their family.
Seriously, FUCK CANCER. Paul was a brilliant writer, as his plethora of awards testifies. He was a fearless and powerful writer, who addressed every aspect of humanity in his stories. Nothing was out of bounds for Paul, and his work got under the skin of everyone who read it. And it will stay there. He wrote one of the single best stories I have ever read, or probably ever will, Wives – originally published in X6 and reprinted in his latest collection.
And Paul was one of the nicest people you could ever meet. Generous, friendly and funny as fuck, we laughed a lot in the times we spent together. Foul, crass, hilarious and sharply clever. He shared of himself and his time so generously. I am a better writer now than I might ever have been thanks to Paul's help. The story being published in serial right now at The Red Penny Papers is one he helped me with. He tore that sucker to shreds and helped me turn an okay story into what I think is one of the best things I've ever written. Because of Paul.
When he offered to crit that story for me, I expected a read-through and an email or phone call with a handful of suggestions and areas to look at. He sent me an email with dozens of bullet points, a full breakdown of issues he had and things I could improve on, with this 18,000 word novelette.
That email exchange ended up being over twenty messages back and forth to get that story where it is today. That's how generous a friend Paul was.
My latest novel, which is out looking for a publisher now, was something else Paul helped me with. Even struggling with cancer, hardly able to do anything with his own writing, he offered to read my latest manuscript and crit it for me. He asked me to print it out and post it down, so he could read it while lying on the couch resting, as he wasn't able to spend long periods in front of his computer. He sent it back a few weeks later, covered in scribbled notes and accompanied by a thirteen page typed up critique. This is the kind of friend Paul was – someone who would do something like that while he was fucking dying and could, even should, have saved his energy. But he wanted to do it, because that's the kind of friend and writer he was.
Throughout Paul's fight against his cancer he was his open, candid self. He posted every stage of his illness on his blog, posted all about the highs and lows and the effect it was having on him, with no punches pulled or gruesome details gently couched in euphemism. Just like his writing. I've experienced way too much terminal illness in my life and whether you have or haven't in yours (and I hope you haven't) go and read Paul's blog posts to get an idea of what terminal illness is really like. It's not like the movies, where some beautiful actor gets to have a life like normal right up to the end and then gently whisper from their death bed before slipping away.
It's real, visceral horror. It's suffering and pain and rage and it does its best to strip away a person's dignity. It reduces great people to husks, mere shadows of their former selves. It rips apart the sufferer and their family from the inside and tears the guts out of life for everyone concerned. But if you want any idea of how to cope with the evil, fucked up shit that terminal illness is, read Paul's account. Anyone who shows a fraction of Paul's strength and dignity, and that of his family, is doing pretty well for themselves in a situation with no redeeming aspects whatsoever.
I'm not surprised by Paul's death, we knew it was coming. If anything, what's surprising is that he lasted this long. Another testament to his strength and determination. His doctors were worried he wouldn't make Christmas and Paul made it his primary mission to survive that long, to spend one more Christmas with his beautiful wife and child. He did that and more.
When things got that bad, I dropped everything and drove down to visit him, before it was too late, in early December. That was the last time I saw Paul. I regret not being geographically closer, so I might have spent more time with him, but I'm so glad I got to spend that afternoon with him. He was at peace with his situation. Of course he didn't want to go, of course he was angry and upset and terrified of how his wife and child would cope when he went, but he seemed to have reached an acceptance and only wanted to hang on as long as possible and get as much time with them as he could. And he did a good job of that. He hadn't given up, would never give up, but his dignity and bravery were inspiring.
And my rage burns on. Incandescent fucking rage that there's nothing any of us can do against the pervasive evil that is cancer. Rage that someone so kind, generous, loving, clever and talented should be taken so early, so far before his time. Paul's career was just beginning to really hit its pro stride and it mystifies me to think what he might have achieved. He told me about his new novel idea, and it would have been amazing. But he had no strength or time to write it. Seriously, fuck cancer. Fuck it fuck it fuck it!
There will never be another one like Paul Haines. It hurts so much already, I miss him terribly. I can't imagine the pain his family are going through now. But at least we'll always have the amazing things he wrote to remember him by. His influence and contribution to writing, Australian and internationally, is undeniable. His influence on me will never be wasted, I won't squander that gift.
Vale, Paul. Always loved, always treasured, never forgotten.
Fuck cancer.
http://paulhaines.livejournal.com/189129.html?style=mine
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February 28, 2012
The Darkest Shade Of Grey, episode 2 now live
My serial novella, The Darkest Shade Of Grey, is being published in four weekly installments by The Red Penny Papers. It's free to read online, so get on over there and check it out.
Episodes 3 and 4 will be published over the next two weeks.
If you enjoy it, please do share the links with your family, friends and colleagues.
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February 27, 2012
Thirteen O'Clock Australian dark fiction news and reviews – launched
I'm very happy to be able to officially announce this new venture. Myself and writers Andrew McKiernan and Felicity Dowker have put together a new website, to fill a void in the Australian dark and weird fiction scene. Since the untimely demise of Horrorscope, there's been a gap where good dark and weird fiction can be reviewed and reported. We're hoping to fill that gap with Thirteen O'Clock. And, after all, you can't have too many sources of news and reviews in this game. Here are the relevant links:
All the details are in the official press release, here.
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February 24, 2012
Kraken by China Mieville – review
I really, really wanted to like this book. But, ultimately, I was a bit disappointed. It's the sort of thing I should love. Hell, it's the sort of thing I should fucking write! Competing religious cults, magic and technomancy in contemporary London. This has my stamp of approval all over it like a particularly virulent venereal disease. And for the first third, I was along for the ride.
Some things bugged me. I love what Mieville does with language. I get it. He wants to challenge readers, and that's cool. I'm down with his excessive adjectives and long rambling descriptions. Rules are there to be broken when you're good enough to do so, and Mieville most certainly is. But there were many flaws with that work in this book. For some strange reason, there's a serious dearth of commas. The comma is a valuable piece of punctuation and is often abused. People overuse it when it would be better to have two sentences and stuff like that. But it's necessary. It helps us ride the words smoothly and evenly, rolling with their hips, as it were. When there's a lack of commas for no readily apparent reason, words in a sentence run into each like bean juice into egg yolk in your Saturday morning fry-up. Words get all mixed up and you have to stop and go back, read the sentence again. I don't mind being challenged by language and writing, but I resent having to keep stopping and starting, being forced to unravel a sentence that punctuation should unravel for me.
There's also the dialogue. Everyone in this book talks just like real people. That's essentially a good thing. But it's a bit overdone here. I understand what he's trying to do old China I really do, with his characters all Londoners talking stream of conscious like and being right there with the slang and fucking honesty. But combine it with a lack of commas and you see what happens. I grew up in and around London. I know he's done a stellar job of the dialogue. Only he's done it so much and in such a way that it sometimes becomes a chore to read a conversation.
But fine, whatever. I'll play along. That's the style of this book. I can live with that. And, as I said above, for the first third I did live with it quite happily. I was loving the different cults, the styles of magic being employed, the whole city of London as a living character in the story. As usual, Mieville's imagination was going off like November 5th fireworks and that's great. But the story doesn't quite hold it up. I started to get a bit bored with who had the Kraken, and why. I got to the point by the final third where I really just didn't give a fuck any more and was only reading to the end for a sense of closure. It all built towards something massive, tripped over its own feet at around the two thirds mark, and stumbled over the finish line with its trousers around its ankles. Which is a bloody shame, because it should have been awesome.
I've only read one Mieville book before, Perdido Street Station, and I loved that. It was overly long and convoluted too, but it worked. I lived and breathed the city and the story, and was happy to wallow in it with Mieville all the way. This time around it didn't work out for me.
And yet, there is a lot to like about Kraken anyway, if nothing else just the scope of ideas and characters. I'm a sucker for a good sense of place, and London in this book is brilliant. Many of the characters are truly horrifying or endlessly entertaining. If you like urban fantasy and horror, and you're prepared to put up with the issues I've mentioned here, I'd certainy recommend it. It's not like anything else, and that in itself is reason enough for a look. It hasn't put me off China Mieville and I plan to read more of his work. But Mieville is like pate on toast, with caviar on top. And some cream. It's all a bit much and you might really enjoy it once, but you need a big long break before you consume anything like that again. Kraken is worth a try, but only three stars from me.
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February 22, 2012
My latest op-ed up at The Punch, in which I rant about DRM
My latest opinion piece has been published today at The Punch, "Australia's Best Conversation". The title was the work of the editor, and is deliberately sensationalist, but the piece should clarify my position. It begins thusly:
Digital Rights Management doesn't work. DRM is a method of locking digital media so it can't be shared. Except it fails. For every form of DRM employed, pirates instantly break it.
DRM only inconveniences honest, paying customers. For example, in the case of eBooks, a person might justifiably want to have their book on their PC and their tablet, but DRM can prevent that.
I regularly get Google Alerts about my books being mentioned online and many times it's when they appear illegally on filesharing sites. For every download like that, it's a drop of cash not going to keeping food on my table, right? Actually, probably not.
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February 21, 2012
Awards all over the place – Stokers and Nebulas
Award season is upon us once again and all sorts of nominations are coming out.
Firstly, the Stoker Awards. Each year, the Horror Writers Association presents the Bram Stoker Awards™ for Superior Achievement in the field of horror writing, named in honor of Bram Stoker, author of the seminal horror work Dracula. Since 1987, the approximately 700 members of the HWA have recommended, nominated and voted on the greatest works of horror and dark fantasy of the previous calendar year, making the Bram Stoker Awards™ the most prestigious award in the field of horror literature. For the first time in 2011, half the nominees were chosen by juries.
The awards are presented in eleven categories: Novel, First Novel, Young Adult Novel, Graphic Novel, Long Fiction, Short Fiction, Screenplay, Fiction Collection, Anthology, Non-fiction, and Poetry Collection. The organization's Active and Lifetime members will select the winners from this list of nominees; and the Awards will be presented at a gala banquet on Saturday evening, March 31, at the World Horror Convention in Salt Lake City, Utah.
This year's nominees are:
SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A NOVEL
A Matrix Of Angels by Christopher Conlon (Creative Guy Publishing)
Cosmic Forces by Greg Lamberson (Medallion Press)
Floating Staircase by Ronald Malfi (Medallion Press / Thunderstorm Books)
Flesh Eaters by Joe McKinney (Pinnacle Books)
Not Fade Away by Gene O'Neill (Bad Moon Books)
The German by Lee Thomas (Lethe Press)
SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A FIRST NOVEL
Isis Unbound by Allyson Bird (Dark Regions Press)
Southern Gods by John Hornor Jacobs (Night Shade Books)
The Lamplighters by Frazer Lee (Samhain Horror)
The Panama Laugh by Thomas Roche (Night Shade Books)
That Which Should Not Be by Brett J. Talley (JournalStone)
SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A YOUNG ADULT NOVEL
Ghosts of Coronado Bay, A Maya Blair Mystery by J. G. Faherty (JournalStone)
The Screaming Season by Nancy Holder (Razorbill)
Rotters by Daniel Kraus (Delacorte Books for Young Readers)
Dust and Decay by Jonathan Maberry (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness (Candlewick / Walker)
This Dark Endeavor: The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein by Kenneth Oppel (Simon & Schuster / David Fickling Books)
SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A GRAPHIC NOVEL
Anya's Ghost by Vera Brosgol (First Second)
Locke & Key Volume 4 by Joe Hill (IDW Publishing)
Green River Killer by Jeff Jensen (Dark Horse)
Marvel Universe vs. Wolverine by Jonathan Maberry (Marvel)
Baltimore Volume I: The Plague Ships by Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden (Dark Horse)
Neonomicon by Alan Moore (Avatar Press)
SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN LONG FICTION
7 Brains by Michael Louis Calvillo (Burning Effigy Press)
Roots and All by Brian Hodge (A Book of Horrors)
The Colliers' Venus (1893) by Caitlin R. Kiernan (Naked City: New Tales of Urban Fantasy)
Ursa Major by John R. Little (Bad Moon Books)
Rusting Chickens by Gene O'Neill (Dark Regions Press)
The Ballad of Ballard and Sandrine by Peter Straub (Conjunctions: 56)
SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN SHORT FICTION
Her Husband's Hands by Adam-Troy Castro (Lightspeed Magazine, October 2011)
Herman Wouk Is Still Alive by Stephen King (The Atlantic Magazine, May 2011)
Hypergraphia by Ken Lillie-Paetz (The Uninvited #1)
Graffiti Sonata by Gene O'Neill (Dark Discoveries #18)
Home by George Saunders (The New Yorker Magazine, June 13, 2011)
All You Can Do Is Breathe by Kaaron Warren (Blood and Other Cravings)
SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A SCREENPLAY
True Blood, episode #44: "Spellbound" by Alan Ball (HBO)
The Walking Dead, episode #13: "Pretty Much Dead Already" by Scott M. Gimple (AMC)
The Walking Dead, episode #9: "Save the Last One" by Scott M. Gimple (AMC)
Priest by Cory Goodman (Screen Gems)
The Adjustment Bureau by George Nolfi (Universal Pictures)
American Horror Story, episode #12: "Afterbirth" by Jessica Sharzer (20th Century Fox Television)
SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A FICTION COLLECTION
Voices: Tales of Horror by Lawrence C. Connolly (Fantasist Enterprises)
Red Gloves by Christopher Fowler (PS Publishing)
Two Worlds and In Between: The Best of Caitlin R. Kiernan (Volume One) by Caitlin R. Kiernan (Subterranean)
Monsters of L.A. by Lisa Morton (Bad Moon Books)
The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares by Joyce Carol Oates (Mysterious Press)
Multiplex Fandango by Weston Ochse (Dark Regions Press)
SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN AN ANTHOLOGY (EDITING)
NEHW Presents: Epitaphs edited by Tracy L. Carbone (Shroud Publishing)
Ghosts By Gaslight edited by Jack Dann and Nick Gevers (Harper Voyager)
Blood And Other Cravings edited by Ellen Datlow (Tor Books)
Supernatural Noir edited by Ellen Datlow (Dark Horse)
Tattered Souls 2 edited by Frank J. Hutton (Cutting Block Press)
Demons: Encounters with the Devil and his Minions, Fallen Angels and the Possessed edited by John Skipp (Black Dog and Leventhal)
SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN NON-FICTION
Halloween Nation: Behind the Scenes of America's Fright Night by Lesley Pratt Bannatyne (Pelican Publishing)
Reflections in a Glass Darkly: Essays on J. Sheridan Le Fanu edited by Gary William Crawford, Jim Rockhill and Brian J. Showers (Hippocampus Press)
Starve Better by Nick Mamatas (Apex Publications)
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Zombies by Matt Mogk (Gallery Books)
The Gothic Imagination by John C. Tibbetts (Palgrave Macmillan)
Stephen King: A Literary Companion by Rocky Wood (McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers)
SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A POETRY COLLECTION
How to Recognize a Demon Has Become Your Friend by Linda Addison (Necon Ebooks)
At Louche Ends: Poetry for the Decadent, the Damned & the Absinthe-Minded by Maria Alexander (Burning Effigy Press)
Surrealities by Bruce Boston (Dark Regions Press)
Shroud of Night by G. O. Clark (Dark Regions Press)
The Mad Hattery by Marge Simon (Elektrik Milk Bath Press)
Unearthly Delights by Marge Simon (Sam's Dot)
(From http://www.stokers2012.org/)
Also, Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America has announced the nominees for the 2011 Nebula Awards (presented 2012), the nominees for the Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation, and the nominees for the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy Book. Here are the nominees:
Novel
God's War, Kameron Hurley (Night Shade)
The Kingdom of Gods, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
Firebird, Jack McDevitt (Ace)
Embassytown, China Miéville (Del Rey)
Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti, Genevieve Valentine (Prime)
Among Others, Jo Walton (Tor)
Novella
With Unclean Hands, Adam-Troy Castro (Analog 11/11)
The Ice Owl, Carolyn Ives Gilman (F&SF 11-12/11)
The Man Who Bridged the Mist, Kij Johnson (Asimov's 10-11/11)
Kiss Me Twice, Mary Robinette Kowal (Asimov's 6/11)
The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary, Ken Liu (Panverse Three)
Silently and Very Fast, Catherynne M. Valente (WSFA)
Novelette
Six Months, Three Days, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor.com 6/8/11)
The Old Equations, Jake Kerr (Lightspeed 7/11)
What We Found, Geoff Ryman (F&SF 9-10/11)
The Migratory Pattern of Dancers, Katherine Sparrow (GigaNotoSaurus 7/11)
Sauerkraut Station, Ferrett Steinmetz (GigaNotoSaurus 11/11)
Fields of Gold, Rachel Swirsky (Eclipse 4)
Ray of Light, Brad R. Torgersen (Analog 12/11)
Short Story
Her Husband's Hands, Adam-Troy Castro (Lightspeed 10/11)
Mama, We Are Zhenya, Your Son, Tom Crosshill (Lightspeed 4/11)
Shipbirth, Aliette de Bodard (Asimov's 2/11)
Movement, Nancy Fulda (Asimov's 3/11)
The Axiom of Choice, David W. Goldman (New Haven Review Winter '11)
The Paper Menagerie, Ken Liu (F&SF 3-4/11)
The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees, E. Lily Yu (Clarkesworld 4/11)
Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation
The Adjustment Bureau
Attack the Block
Captain America: The First Avenger
Doctor Who: ''The Doctor's Wife''
Hugo
Midnight in Paris
Source Code
Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy Book
Ultraviolet, R.J. Anderson (Orchard UK; Carolrhoda)
Chime, Franny Billingsley (Dial)
The Girl of Fire and Thorns, Rae Carson (Greenwillow; Gollancz as Fire and Thorns)
The Boy at the End of the World, Greg van Eekhout (Bloomsbury USA)
Everybody Sees the Ants, A.S. King (Little, Brown)
Akata Witch, Nnedi Okorafor (Viking)
The Freedom Maze, Delia Sherman (Big Mouth House)
Daughter of Smoke & Bone, Laini Taylor (Little, Brown)
The winners will be announced at SFWA's 47th Annual Nebula Awards Weekend, May 17 – May 20, 2012 at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City in Arlington, Virginia. Connie Willis will be honoured with the 2011 Damon Knight Grand Master Award for her lifetime contributions and achievements in the field. Walter Jon Williams will preside as toastmaster, with Astronaut Michael Fincke as keynote speaker. (From Locus.)
Congratulations and best of luck to all the nominees!
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February 20, 2012
Tuesday Toot – Martin Livings
Tuesday Toot is a semi-regular feature here at The Word. An invite-only series of short posts where writers, editors, booksellers and other creatives have been asked to share their stuff and toot their own horn. It's hard to be seen in the digital morass and hopefully this occasional segment will help some of the quality stuff out there get noticed. It should all be things that readers of The Word will find edifying.
Today, it's Martin Livings.
Who is Martin?
Perth-based writer Martin Livings has had over seventy short stories in a variety of magazines and anthologies. His short works have been listed in the Recommended Reading list in Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, and have appeared in both The Year's Best Australian SF & Fantasy, Volumes Two and Five, and Australian Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2006 and 2008 editions. His first novel, Carnies, was published by Hachette Livre in 2006, and was nominated for both the Aurealis and Ditmar awards.
What are you tooting about?
Now, six years later (and twenty years after his first published short story), Martin is releasing his first collection, Living With the Dead. Due out later this year from Dark Prints Press, the book will contain twenty reprinted stories from two decades of publications, plus three brand new stories original to the collection. The cover art was recently made public, created by UK artist Vincent Chong, and it's utterly gorgeous. So check it out, and stay tuned for more exciting details!
Link to the book: http://www.darkprintspress.com.au/books_living.html
Link to Vincent Chong's blog entry about the artwork: http://vincentchongart.wordpress.com/2011/12/20/living-with-the-dead/
Link to Martin's website: http://www.martinlivings.com
[I'm a big fan of Martin's work - I even published one of his stories in my short lived small press venture. Heart Of Ice by Martin is in Dark Pages, Volume 1. I'm very much looking forward to this new collection, and that really is a freaking sweet cover. - Alan]
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The Darkest Shade Of Grey Episode 1 now published online
I've been very excited about this one for a while. My novelette, The Darkest Shade Of Grey, is finally published. At least, Episode 1 is now up. It's being serialised over four weeks at The Red Penny Papers. Firstly, check out this sweet cover, by awesome artist Megan Eckman.
Click on the cover for a bigger version.
I just love that image – it really captures the heart of the story. The publisher describes the story thus:
It's a bit of stunning supernatural noir about a hard up journalist whose drinking problem goes beyond the usual need for self-medication. David sees things he shouldn't be able to see, that no one could handle seeing — and he has no one but himself to blame for opening the door to them.
Click here to read Episode 1 and I'll post each week when the next episode is up. Parts 2, 3 and 4 should be posted each Friday/Saturday (depending on your timezone) over the next three weeks. I'm incredibly proud of this story, so I really hope you all enjoy it.
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February 16, 2012
Mythic Resonance is out now, featuring a story from me
Mythic Resonance is The Specusphere's first printed publication. It is an anthology of speculative fiction short stories by Australian writers following the theme of myths and legends.
I'm proud to say that my story, The Everywhere And The Always, is included. Here's the full ToC:
Foreword — Sue Hammond and Stephen Thompson
The Salted Heart — N A Sulway
The Everywhere And The Always — Alan Baxter
Annabel and the Witch — Paul Freeman
Through these eyes I see — Donna Maree Hanson
A Tale of Publication — Les Zigomanis
La Belle Dame — Satima Flavell
Glorious Destiny — Steven Gepp
Meeting my Renaissance Man — Vicky Daddo
Wetlands — Jen White
Man's Best Friend — Tom Williams
In Paradise, Trapped — Kelly Dillon
Holly and Iron — Nigel Read
Brothers — Sue Bursztynski
The print version is available now with an ebook due out any time.
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