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Biblio
There
is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes
it's like drilling rock and
then blasting it out with charges. -- Ernest Hemingway
The title, the pitch & the publishing history: it's all
here in this online library. Plus links to extracts, the occasional review,
some notes (where applicable) and where you can purchase
the book the story's in.
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The Tailor of Time |
| The pitch: |
The Tailor is stitching night to day, day to night. He's been doing so for longer than time can record. But there's something on the way, travelling whispers and rumours, that's destined to shake him up. |
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Clockwork Phoenix, Norilana Books, ed. Mike Allen |
| The history: |
To be published Readercon, July 2008
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Watertight Lies |
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The year is 2012. In the desert in the middle of the country, water is rarer than gold, and people are getting mean. |
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2012, Twelth Planet Press, eds. Alisa Krasnostein & Ben Payne |
| The history: |
To be published March 2008, Swancon, Perth
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Conversations |
| The pitch: |
The father, the son, and the holy spirit. Save us from ourselves. |
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Dog Versus Sandwich, Twelth Planet Press, ed. Ben Payne |
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Published February 2008 |
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A Scar for Leida |
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Katya is used to scars. She's a survivor. She's good at what she does. But when Leida approaches her in the marketplace where she works, Katya has no idea just how much she's set to lose. |
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Fantastic Wonder Stories, Ticonderoga Publications, ed. Russell B. Farr |
| The history: |
Published March 2007, Swancon, Perth
Winner Aurealis Award Best Young Adult Short Story
Shortlisted Ditmar Award Best Short Story
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The Dying Light |
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Shobe is full of questions under a sky full of stars. She hasn't found her dying yet. Neither has Father Frail, but he is blind. No one expects it of him. Are they the world's last forgotten? |
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Eidolon 1, Eidolon Books, Jeremy Byrne & Jonathan Strahan eds.
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Published August 2006, Continuum, Melbourne
Short Listed Aurealis Award, Young Adult Short Story 2006
Shortlisted Australian Shadows Awards |
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Stealing Free |
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Salamander wants to be free. Kingfisher is his friend, but Kingfisher doubts it can be done. What is worth having is worth stealing. |
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Agog! Ripping Reads, Agog! Press, ed. Cat Sparks |
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Published June 2006
Podcast on Jonathan Strahan's website
Honourable Mention, Ellen Datlow and Kelly Link & Gavin Grant, The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror 2007 |
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Surrender I: Rope Artist |
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The brief: A piece of flash fiction demonstrating the darker side of women. The response: The Rope Artist. The price: Surrender. |
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Shadowed Realms, Angela Challis & Shane Jiraiya Cummings eds.
Year's Best Australian Dark Fantasy and Horror 2007 |
| The history: |
Published January 2006
Shortlisted Ditmar Award Best Short Story
Honourable Mention, Ellen Datlow and Kelly Link & Gavin Grant, The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror 2007
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Summa Seltzer Missive |
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Polly Daley is beige, her hearing is going, and she doesn't mind. But nature abhors a vacuum and there's every chance she won't be able to continue in quite the same way. |
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Ticonderoga Online #6, Dec-05, Russell B. Farr, Liz Grzyb & Lyn Battersby eds. |
| The history: |
Published December 2005
Shortlisted Ditmar Award Best Short Story |
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Six of One |
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See, there's this guy, & his irritating neighbour, and his brother who likes to be called Nugget (for reasons of his own) and ... |
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Mitch? 4 Slow Dancing Through Quicksand: Stories From Aussie Writers Who Should've Known Better, Mitch?, ed. Mitch |
| The history: |
Published April 2005, Swancon, Perth |
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Consensual SFF erotica. |
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ConSensual a Trois, Cathy Cupitt,
Stephen Dedman, & Elaine Kemp eds. |
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history: |
Published April 2005, Swancon, Perth |
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Number 3 Raw Place |
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Ted lives in a beautiful home. It's new.
It's all new. It's washing him away. |
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Agog! Terrific Tales, Agog!
Press, ed. Cat Sparks |
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Published April 2004
Published The Year's Best Australian SF & Fantasy, One, (September 2005), ed. Bill Congreve & Michelle Marquardt
Short Listed Ditmar Award Best Short Story
Honourable Mention Years Best Fantasy & Horror 18, ed. Ellen Datlow et al., upcoming
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Stone by Stone |
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pitch: |
A murderous woman takes revenge. But when
all is said and done, who will lay the final stone? And who gets the
last word? |
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Southern Blood, Sandglass
Enterprises, ed. Bill Congreve |
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history: |
Published June 2003
To be broadcast on Radio National Short Story Programme, 2006
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The Singular Life of Eddy
Dovewater |
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Eddy Dovewater was born running. From what,
he's not too sure, and to where, he doesn't know. But life's about
to throw a few curve balls his way. Has he got what it takes to stay
ahead? |
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Agog! Terrific Tales, Agog!
Press, ed. Cat Sparks |
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history: |
Published April 2003
Short Listed Ditmar
Award Best Short Story |
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The Distance Keeper |
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pitch: |
Toby doesn't keep track of time. Distance,
though, now, that's something else. And if he's right, the Earth's
expanding. Stretching like a rubber band. He's nervous. Something
like that just won't last forever. |
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venue: |
Borderlands #1, Borderlands
Press, ed. Borderlands Committee |
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history: |
Published April 2003
Honourable Mention
Years Best Fantasy & Horror 17, ed. Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link, Gavin Grant
2003
Reprinted online at infinity plus.
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The Razor Salesman |
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Ellen has it all: an absent husband, two
indifferent children, a house, a job, and a severe case of exhaustion.
Her life has become a waking dream. But something's coming that's
going to open her eyes. It's at the door. What is it the razor salesman
sells? |
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venue: |
Ideomancer Unbound, Ideomancer,
ed. Chris Clarke & Mikal Trimm |
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history: |
Published December 2002 |
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Life's Work |
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pitch: |
Ruby's been busy. Finishing her life's work.
She's expecting a whole lotta gratitude. She won't get it. |
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venue: |
Passing Strange, MirrorDanse
Books, ed. Bill Congreve |
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history: |
Published June 2002 |
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King of All and the Metal Sentinel |
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pitch: |
The humans are gone, and most of the labori
are out of energy. Except for two. They're doing what they can, but
they're a little broken, and they were never meant for this. |
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venue: |
Agog! Fantastic Fiction, Agog!
Press, ed. Cat Sparks |
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history: |
Published April 2002
Winner Ditmar Award Best Short Story
Reprinted online at infinity plus |
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Fixing the Glitch |
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pitch: |
Books is a kind of invisible man. There's
a reason for that, though, and it's all going to be fixed up very
soon. |
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venue: |
Mitch?3, Hacks to the Max, Mitch?, ed. Mitch |
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history: |
Published April 2001 |
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Silicon Cast |
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pitch: |
Brosia's job isn't a pleasant one, but at
least she gets to do it in beautiful homes, with beautiful people.
And tonight she'll be seeing her friend Jareth. Just one thing, though:
Jareth's begun to take things into his own hands. |
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venue: |
Redsine
7, ed. Garry Nurrish & Trent Jamieson |
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history: |
Published March 2002
Honourable Mention Aurealis Award for Best Horror Short Story, 2002
Honourable Mention
Years Best Fantasy & Horror 16, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terry Windling,
2003 |
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All the Monochrome Butterflies |
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pitch: |
Evan keeps failing the damn Rorschachs,
and they won't let him out until he gets it right. What do they want
from him? More importantly, what does Evan want for himself? And can
he get it? |
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venue: |
Mitch?2, Tarts of the New Millenium, Mitch?,
ed. Mitch |
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history: |
Published April 2001 |
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The First and Final Game |
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pitch: |
What will it take to stop him killing again?
Simple: one little thing. She's at the house, and she's waiting for
him. But which one of them has what it takes to win the first and
final game? |
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venue: |
Altair online
Altair 6/7, Altair Press, ed. Robert Stephenson |
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history: |
Published April 2001
Winner Aurealis Award Best Horror Short Story 2000
Shortlisted Ditmar
Award Best Short Story |
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Awards & Recognition:
Summary
My
grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.
-- Louis Adamic
2007
A Scar for Leida
Winner Aurealis Award Best Young Adult Short Story
Shortlisted Ditmar Award Best Short Story
2006
The Dying Light
Pub. The Year's Best Australian Fantasy & Science Fiction, Three, ed. Bill Congreve & Michelle Marquadt, upcoming
Shortlisted Aurealis Award Best Young Adult Short Story
Shortlisted Australian Shadows Award
Surrender 1: Rope Artist
Pub. Australian Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror 2007, upcoming
Shortlisted Ditmar Award for Best Short Story
Honourable Mention Years Best Fantasy & Horror 20, ed. Ellen Datlow et al.
Stealing Free
Honourable Mention Years Best Fantasy & Horror 18, ed. Ellen Datlow et al.
2005
Summa Seltzer Missive
Shortlisted Ditmar Award Best Short Story
2004
Number 3 Raw Place
Shortlisted Ditmar Award Best Short Story
Pub. The Year's Best Australian SF & Fantasy, One, ed. Bill Congreve & Michelle Marquardt
Honourable Mention Years Best Fantasy & Horror 18, ed. Ellen Datlow et al.
Cinnamon Gate
Honourable Mention Years Best Fantasy & Horror 18, ed. Ellen Datlow et al., upcoming
Recommended Reading List, The Year's Best Australian SF & Fantasy, One, ed. Bill Congreve & Michelle Marquardt
2003
The Singular Life of Eddy Dovewater
Shortlisted
Ditmar Award Best Short Story
The Distance Keeper
Honourable Mention
Years Best Fantasy & Horror 17, ed. Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link,
Gavin Grant, 2004
2002
King of All and the Metal Sentinel
Winner Ditmar Award Best Short Story
Silicon Cast
Honourable Mention Aurealis Awards Best Horror Short Story
Honourable Mention Years Best Fantasy & Horror 16, ed. Ellen Datlow
& Terry Windling, 2003
2001
Winner Ditmar Award for Best New Talent
2000
The First and Final Game
Winner Aurealis Award Best Horror Short Story
Shortlisted
Ditmar Award Best Short Story
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