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  • Australian Shadows Award Finals

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    Very chuffed to see that A BOOK OF ENDINGS is in the finals list for the Australian Shadows Award. My short story ‘Six Suicides’ (a story I swore nobody would read!) also made the shortlist, seeing as this year the Shadows are divvied into three categories: long fiction, short fiction, and edited publication. Which begs…

  • Poe’s Deadly Daughters

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    Hey, hi, how you been? What’ve you been up to? Me? No, just busy, is all. But I’m hoping to get away soon-ish. Do you tweet? As an early birthday present, I scored an invitation to be part of the fabulous Poe’s Deadly Daughters blog this weekend (this weekend in Canada, which is a few…

  • Shining

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    Shiny 6 is out: the last issue of Shiny from the Twelfth Planet crew. (Does that make it ‘all out’?) In this ultimate issue Dirk Flinthart delivers a rollicking good tale with pirates & Patti Kurtz has a rotten time with elves (“Really, the last thing I wanted to do was trudge through a raging…

  • Conflux 2011

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    Is there anyone out there who is or might be involved with next year’s Conflux? Would you mind emailing me at deborahb AT livejournal DOT com? Tah! Edit: got it, thanks. :)

  • More woots!

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    So here’s how it goes. You & a team of people (fabulous people!) put together a collection. You get to the end of the process & you think, “Fck, I’m tired.” That’s it, that’s all you think for a while. Then you get through that, a little, & you’re enjoying the relative quiet in your…

  • Collected pay-off

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    Over at the Twelfth Planet Press blog (publisher of such excellent tomes as A Book of Endings, Horn, Roadkill/Siren Beat & the pending Sprawl & Glitter Rose, to name a few), editor & publisher Alisa Krasnostein puts the tough word on collections: To me, a debut collection is almost a declaration, a promise. Of battles…

  • Mind plays tricks

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    Coming down the escalator at Greenwood Plaza, the long one, at the end of a long day — concentration dead, eyes heavy, brain fritzing randomly — I saw from the corner of my eye a woman two metres down the escalator from me, turned to her left and gazing intently into the eyes of her…

  • Locus (def.): a centre or source, as in activities or power

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    The Locus Recommended Reading list is up — & so is our little book that could, A Book of Endings! *woot* & thanks to all the Locus readers. There’s fine company to be had on the list: Twelfth Planet shows its spine, with Horn & Siren Beat also getting mentions. :) Paul Haines’ Wives is…

  • Speaking of WorldCon

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    Looks like I’ll have at least 3 pieces of fiction launched at WorldCon: * “Home Turf” in Gillian Polack’s CULTURAL BAGGAGE anthology * “No Going Home” in Alisa Krasnostein’s SPRAWL anthology * My first novella, a contemporary urban fantasy in Mark Deniz’ ISHTAR anthology. Not sure the pieces from Kaaron Warren, Cat Sparks and myself…

  • Next up: Hugos

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    Award season doesn’t seem to be ending anytime soon, with the Hugos next on the interest list — especially in Australia, where WorldCon is happening this September. Some of the local Hugo interests: * Tansy Rayner Roberts talks Wives & other Hugo recommendations * Robert Hoge sets up the Homegrown Hugo Nomination Group on Facebook…