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The Situation, by Jeff VanderMeer
The Situation is … (there’s a fish project and a boss who’s found in the corridor crying and a friend who’s increasingly becoming a bear). The Situation is …. (the fish, it has the boss’s face, but that was done on purpose, part of the project to build the fish). The Situation is … (the…
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Covered
Getting plenty of covers lately for the upcoming stories: In Sprawl (ed. Alisa Krasnostein, cover Amanda Rainey) you’ll find my story No Going Home. In Baggage (ed. Gillian Polack, cover Andrew McKiernan) I have the story Home Turf. (I should point out the ‘home’ theme you might see happening above is on purpose, & is…
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What I’ve been doing
Shockingly beautiful day in Sydney today. Really. From the workday window it was all rippling blue loveliness and appalling picture-perfectness. It really ticked me off. Speaking of. Lately I’ve been busy working full time and writing. The full-time work — though not to be in any way encouraged (whoever thought 5 days/week was a good…
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In which, frankly, I rant about Camus
I’ve been meaning to read Albert Camus’ THE OUTSIDER since I was fifteen. Which sounds more dramatic than it is. A friend of mine with a kinda photographic memory for narrative once sat on my floor — when we were 15 — and told me the story of the outsider. A man, she said, who…
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It’s my birthday!
I love birthdays. Not as much as I used to, though. As I said to one friend this morning, ‘Nowdays the gifts are like a kind of compensation.’ On the bright side, I totally scored on the presents!
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Conflux 2011
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. :)
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More woots!
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…
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Collected pay-off
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…
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Next up: Hugos
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…
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Big
Hahaha, this Skribit business is already paying off, with a new suggestion received at other.blog today (thanks, Liz!). So: up next (soon-ish) will be Albert Camus. But first: Australia is BIG, people! See, I told you.