I’ve been invited to be a guest speaker at an Emerging Writers’ Festival event in Brisbane called Digital Writers: taking your words online. It’s a very exciting idea, but it needs some funding and the whole project is currently being crowdsourced. You can support the event simply by buying a ticket to attend. Here’s...
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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: August 2011
Emerging Writers’ Festival – Digital Writers: taking your words online
The One That Got Away – ToC announced
I am really excited to be announcing this one. I’ve got a story forthcoming in the crime/mystery anthology, The One That Got Away, from Dark Prints Press, edited by Craig Bezant. I’m excited for several reasons. Of course, it’s always fantastic to sell a story, especially to a publisher like Dark Prints. It’s also...
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Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror: Recommended Reading List
I’m am still bouncing around and Snoopy Dancing because I have a story reprinted in the Year’s Best Australian Fantasy & Horror from Ticonderoga Publications. It’s going to be an awesome book and is out just about any time now. As part of the release celebration, editors Liz Grzyb and Talie Helene have assembled...
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2011 Hugo Award winners
The Oscars of the SF world, the Hugos, are awarded at Worldcon every year. They’ve just been announced for 2011 at Renovation in Reno, Nevada. The winners of the 2011 Hugo Awards are: BEST NOVEL: Blackout/All Clear by Connie Willis (Ballantine Spectra) BEST NOVELLA: The Lifecycle of Software Objects by Ted Chiang (Subterranean) BEST...
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Winds Of Change launch at Conflux
My short story, Dream Shadow, is going to be published in the new anthology from CSFG Publishing, Winds Of Change. It looks like it’s shaping up to be a great anthology and it now has an official launch. Here are the details: Friday, September 30th, 2011 at 7pm Conflux Science Fiction Convention Launceston Room...
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A bit of Australia and New Zealand at Worldcon
I mentioned here before about the wonderful generosity of Bob Kuhn, reading a selection of work from Australian and New Zealand authors at Worldcon in Reno. Well, it’s this weekend. There are now a few more people on the bill and it looks like being two really cool reading sessions. I’m so pleased to...
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The August Australian Speculative Fiction Blog Carnival
Nicole Murphy has collected a fantastic array of links to keep you busy all week. The August Australian Spec Fic blog carnival is one of the biggest I’ve ever seen. So big it’s in two parts. Part the first is here. Part the second is here. Enjoy and share! .
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“The 7 Garages of Kevin Simpson” at Pseudopod
I’ve talked here before about how much I love short fiction podcasts. Probably my favourite podcast of all is Pseudopod, the sound of horror! So you can imagine how excited I am that Pseudopod are podcasting one of my stories. It’s an original too, not a reprint, so this will be a new yarn...
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Practicing Jedi overlooked on 2011 Australian Census
Practicing Jedi have been overlooked on the Australian Census. Then again, pretty much everything has been overlooked on the latest census, but the Jedi issue is more important than you might realise. It’s important to me that statistics are as accurate as possible. After all, 76% of statistics are made up on the spot,...
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NPR Top 100 Science-Fiction & Fantasy Books
This is an interesting list. I saw it retweeted by Neil Gaiman on Twitter, and his words were wise: “Don’t worry about the numbers, just read the books.” I couldn’t agree more. More than 60,000 ballots were cast in the NPR annual summer reader’s survey. Below is a list of the top 100 winners....
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Guest post – Martin Lastrapes and Creating the Illusion of Flesh and Blood
It’s been a while since I had a guest post here. Today I’m happy to host Martin Lastrapes as part of the blog tour for his debut novel, Inside The Outside. Martin’s book covers a very confronting subject and his post today is a reflection of a part of that issue. He talks about...
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The formula for success and life in the way
My apologies for things being a bit quiet on this front lately. I’ve been overwhelmed by general life things when I’d much rather have the time to post here and write more. But that’s ever the way. The life of the writer is a combination of rejection, poverty and distraction, in varying quantities. But...
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Books in the post and publishers doing it right
I posted yesterday about royalty-only anthologies and the issues I have with them. Interestingly, today I checked my P O Box and had a parcel. Inside were two books. These are copies of two of the books from emerging publishing powerhouse Jodi Cleghorn. One is the charity anthology Nothing But Flowers, which is a...
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Royalty-only anthologies and writer exploitation
I made a comment on Twitter that caused a flurry of reaction. I won’t call it a storm, I’m not Stephen Fry or Neil Gaiman, who can break a website with a single tweet, but the response to my comment was interesting nonetheless. I was basically lamenting the continued rise of anthology submission calls...
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Winds Of Change and The Game
Here’s some good news on the publishing front. Well, good news for me and hopefully for you too, if you enjoy reading my stuff. Firstly, my short story, Dream Shadow, has been accepted for publication in the next CSFG Publishing anthology, Winds Of Change, edited by Elizabeth Fitzgerald. The book will be launched at...
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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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