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Now it can be said: Ishtar news!
She’s here, and she is beautiful! Gilgamesh Press has released the Ishtar cover for their tri-novella collection, to be launched this November. Stories by Kaaron Warren, Cat Sparks, Deborah Biancotti. Edited by Amanda Pillar & K.V. Taylor. (Edit: Cover by Amanda Pillar.) I cannot WAIT to see Ishtar launched upon the world.
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What I learned today
I learned that if you take a pizza box on public transport and then walk it the 15 minutes it takes to get from the station to your home, you get a lot more smiles than if you weren’t carrying a pizza box.
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Robert McKee in Oz
Robert McKee’s last tour of Oz a couple years ago was meant to be his LAST tour of Oz for good. But somehow he’s back & tour organisers, Epiphany Artists, have a special on tickets to his Sydney Story seminar or Melbourne ‘genre’ seminars until 28-February. For those of us who endured the Chauvel last time (you…
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Ditmar season
It’s Ditmar season! I know this because of the flurry of emails I’ve received from people reminding me of their eligibility. I had 2 short stories published last year, necessarily down from 6 in 2009 (the year A BOOK OF ENDINGS was published): No Going Home in SPRAWL and Home Turf in BAGGAGE. I’ll happily send…
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What you get when you type ‘women’ into Harpers
Kaaron Warren proclaimed the virtues of Harper’s magazine on her blog (& mine), so I went to the Harpers website & found a search engine where you can interrogate the magazine from 1984 to 2009. The site is kinda utilitarian, so there I am with a blank search engine all the way back to 1984…
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In today’s consumptions
Some kind of weird sleeping sickness has taken over me & is attempting to right the balance of the last several weeks’ insomnia. It’s kinda inconvenient. But, since I’m stuck in bed, I did invest some time in reading The New Yorker’s lengthy article on Paul Haggis (writer of Due South, Million Dollar Baby, and…
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Gothic Valentine!
If you’re near the Library Gallery at Lone Star College, Houston, TX, USA this Monday before midday, make sure you check out the book launch and have some ‘heart-red punch’ for me. And say hi to Danel Olson, editor extraordinaire of the 21ST CENTURY GOTHIC tome, launching that day. And it is a tome! It…
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Testing
Today is Writing Day at chateau deborahb. Many days are writing days, but this is the official writing day, as it is a day I have bought from my f/t employment specifically to be alone & write. It is, then, my favourite day of the week. Today I am playing hooky from my regular writing…
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Oh, yeah, there was a WorldCon
I’ve never successfully managed a con report that did the con any justice, & this will be no exception. But I do want to list some of the highlights of a busy Melbourne weekend: * Best highlight ever #1: after not really thinking through the consequence of volunteering for a book signing, I ended up…