Tag: short stories
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An update on the publishing year so far
Hello blogosphere! Here’s what’s been happening in publishing land so far this year for my stories: Ticonderoga Press has announced the Table of Contents for the YEAR’S BEST AUSTRALIAN FANTASY AND HORROR 2013, & my story All the Lost Ones is being reprinted. All the Lost Ones is set in nineteenth century Venice, because I…
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Some other news
Okay, I’m behind on all sorts of communication. In news: A Book of Endings makes the DITMAR shortlist! ‘Six Suicides’ makes the DITMAR shortlist! Many thank-yous to the peoople who nominated aBoE and Six Suicides. Thank-you, thank-you. DITMAR winners will be announced September 3 at Aussiecon, the 68th World SF Convention, this year in Melbourne.…
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In general
I can’t believe how OLD Die Hard looks. Please, goddess, please, don’t let anyone entertain the idea of doing a re-make of this film. Not only because they’d screw it up, but also because who could possibly afford all the glass they’d need to break/smash/shoot in the action sequences? Rat-a-tat-a-tat!!! In other news: * Twelfth…
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An old meme (from oh, as far back as last week, I think)
“Describe the first story you ever sold to any publication. What was the title of the story? The name of the publication? The plot? The public reception to your work?” It’s kinda like ‘what I did on my school break’, but nonetheless, let me trip down memory lane to recall the sunny times. ;) The…
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Good news, and a reminder to watch my mouth
Anna Tambour is one of those people with verve & smarts. I spent quality time at Conflux sitting on the floor with Anna & Rjurik Davidson, swapping yarns & ideas & having one of those discussions that makes absolute amounts of *perfect sense* at the time, but which later is only remembered as energetic &…
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Shadowed Realms
Shadowed Realms, which is a classy & stylish dark flash fiction e-zine, is doing an issue for the grrls, & they’ve invited me to take part. I am chuffed. I went looking for something to link to on their site (to prove I wasn’t making it up) but found only this over on Shane Jiraiya…
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Good News
Firstly, I’m pleased to announce that my story, Number 3 Raw Place (apart from being Ditmar-nominated & Honourably Mentioned in the Datlow/Windling Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror) will now be appearing in the Congreve/Marquardt Year’s Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy 2004. What a heap of honour for a story which has been cheerfully described…
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Ooooooh, hooray for us!
Yay, lonewolf23 has scored a list of the Australian writers making it into Ellen Datlow’s Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror recommended reading list, & BOTH my stories from 2004 have made the list. That’s “Cinnamon Gate” from Orb #6 & “Number 3 Raw Place” from Agog! Smashing Stories (the latter also making the Ditmar noms…
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And for my birthday I got …
… a Ditmar nomination for my story, ‘Number 3 Raw Place’. Yay, me, & all the other nominees. Some fine nominations there (you know who you are). Curiously, the Ditmar list doesn’t appear to be up at the Natcon website yet, so I’m going to link here and here. I’m very chuffed ‘Raw’ was nominated.…
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Hide in Plain Sight
Writing is a funny thing. It’s a performance art where the performance is done in private. It’s a private pursuit that relies to an arguable degree on having a public twin, a persona, if you will, that represents the private world without interfering with it, and grants time enough or space enough or validity, assurance,…