Fun Stuff Happening—Everywhere!

There's a few fun things happening around the place today. Mary Victoria, author of Tymon's Flight and the newly released Samiha's Song is hosting a guest author series on her blog around the theme "Writing Strong Women Characters in SFF."

The first post, from Australian paranormal urban fantasy author, Nicole Murphy, is now up and well worth a read, here, and a second feature from (I believe) another Australian author, Gillian Polack, will post later today.

If you want to find out a little more about Mary Victoria you can read her guest post, titled Telling the Long White Cloud, on Gillian's blog, here.

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Going a little further a-field (yes, geographically speaking!) my fellow Supernatural Underground author Jaime Rush is guest posting on Larissa's Bookish Life (a blog hosted by a Brazilian-Israeli living in Rio de Janeiro—how international is that?!) on the topic "Storytellers Born or Made?" If you want to find out Jaime's answer to that question, you'll have to read the post, here—and to celebrate the release of her latest book, Burning Darkness, Jaime's also running a "Kick Butt First Line" competition on her own blog, here. And yes, there's prizes, so if you have that best first line burning inside you, you might want to check it out!

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And although some of you may have already seen this, my January 27 post  on  Speculative Fiction in New Zealand was picked up on the  Tor.com "Roundup" over the weekend—in company with items about George RR Martin and China Mieville. You can check it out, here.  ("Fantasy" is the  second "round up" entry down.)