Podcasting has been around for a long time now, by internet standards. Anything that lasts more than a few months is long-lived by internet standards, but you know what I mean. Some things have their blaze of glory and disappear, though they leave a kind of legacy, like MySpace. Some things fire into the...
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Books By Alan
Click on book covers for reviews, previews and purchase options.
RealmShift
A race against time and the Devil
"RealmShift is phenomenal. If it’s not already on your bookshelf it should be."
MageSign
Believe in the blood 
"a gritty tale of blood rituals, mystery, and mysticism… grabs hold of the reader and doesn’t let go"
The Darkest Shade Of Grey
You can tell the story.
"...stunning supernatural noir..."
Ghost Of The Black
"Everything about it is bang on"
Write The Fight Right
“The best way for a writer to learn what’s really involved in brawling, short of going down the pub and starting something.”
Monthly Archives: March 2011
Podcasts are coming of age
Scenes From The Second Storey – review
If you think you recognise the title Scenes From The Second Storey from previous posts, you’d be right. It’s been nominated for Best Anthology in the Aurealis Awards, Ditmar Awards and Australian Shadows Awards, and numerous stories from it have been nominated all over the place as well. It’s got a lot of attention...
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New ThrillerCast – villains
The latest ThrillerCast podcast is up now. This time, David Wood and I talk about villains. What makes a good villain, what motivations and backstory make a villain believable and interesting and so on. We talk about the really popular villains already out there – Tony Soprano, The Joker, etc. – and try to...
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2011 Ditmar Awards nominations announced
I told you it was awards season. The shortlist for the Ditmar Awards has just been released. The Ditmars are Australian fan-voted SF awards – you can learn all about them here. They’ll be awarded at Swancon in Perth in April. I’m so pleased to see so many talented people have got the nod,...
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Midnight Echo #6 to feature me
It was only a couple of weeks ago that I was waxing lyrical about one of my favourite publications, Midnight Echo. In fact, I was posting about how issue 5 was now available and featured a killer line-up of awesome stuff. I also said, “I’m really hoping that they’ll buy one of my stories...
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The current state of my things – writing, edits, fights and articles
I’ve got a lot of stuff going on. But I’m getting there. My primary focus for the majority of this year has been working on my latest novel, getting it up to the best polish I can. I’ve been working on it during every spare minute and I’ve just sent the manuscript somewhere, so...
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2010 Aurealis Awards nominations announced
The Aurealis Awards, Australia’s answer to the Hugo’s, or the Spec Fic Oscars, have announced the list of nominations for 2010 publications. Revealed here at Tansy Rayner Roberts livejournal, the anxious wait is over. I’ll repost the full list below. Congratulations to all the nominees! Judging Coordinator, Keith Stevenson, said that with approximately 600...
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2011 Best Australian Blogs Competition
I discovered today that the Sydney Writers’ Centre is running a competition to find the 2011 Best Australian Blogs. They’re not looking for just over two thousand great blogs – that’s the year. I self-nominated my own blog here, partly because it’s awesome, but also to make sure you guys all know about the...
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Battle: Los Angeles – review
Battle: Los Angeles is brought to you by the US Marine Corp Board of Recruitment. Hoo-rah! At least, it’s hard not to think so having watched the film. Battle: Los Angeles is about an alien invasion. Basically, these bizarre meteor showers suddenly appear in Earth’s atmosphere and within hours they’re crash landing in the...
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Honourable Mentions for Blade Red Press authors
You may remember that I was pleased recently to see that Dark Pages, the anthology I published through my small publishing venture, Blade Red Press, scored a nomination for an Australian Shadows Award. I’m further chuffed to see now that no less than six of the stories in that book have scored an Honourable...
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Real Life Superheroes – the saga continues to continue
I’m sure you all remember the bizarre RLSH – Real Life Super Hero – thing that blew up here back at the end of 2008. If not, refresh your memory with this post (that I had to close after more than 150 comments, many from “super heroes” themselves). That saga continued with this post....
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Murky Depths #16, featuring me
I’m a big fan of Murky Depths magazine. It’s a classy publication and won the British Fantasy Awards – Best Magazine/Periodical 2010, so other people think it’s cool too. I was really pleased when they bought my story, Mirrorwalk, for publication. It comes out in Issue 16, which is due in April and is...
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Midnight Echo 5 available now
I’m a very proud member of the Australian Horror Writers Association and a big fan of the Association’s magazine, Midnight Echo. I’m really hoping that they’ll buy one of my stories one day. In the meantime, I always enjoy reading it. Issue 5, edited by AHWA President, Leigh Blackmore, is available now. Midnight Echo...
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Night-Mantled, an ebook briefly free
I mentioned a little while ago that Night-Mantled: The Best of Wily Writers (Volume 1) was available now. As part of Read An Ebook Week, the publisher has made the ebook edition free. After March 12th the price goes back up to $9.99, so this is a chance to score a great book for...
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The Game has a cover
My short story Running Wild With The Hunt will be published in The Game anthology from Seven Realms Publishing, due in the northern hemisphere summer. All the stories in the book are inspired by the classic Richard Connell story, The Most Dangerous Game. Most of the contributing writers are putting characters from their longer...
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Welcome to the website of author Alan Baxter.
I write dark fantasy, sci fi and horror, ride a motorcycle and love my dog. I also teach Kung Fu, hence the Warrior Scribe tag above. A friend once referred to me that way and I liked it, so it stuck. Learn all about me and my work by clicking About Alan just below the header.
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