Cool Places to Visit

I’ve been on Facebook for a long while, but I’ve always tried to keep it on a semi-personal level. Basically, I only accept friend requests on Facebook from people I actually know. I may not have ever met them, but in this internet age there are some people that I know really well even...
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The Australian speculative fiction blog carnival is off to a galloping start for 2010. You can find the January collected posts at Egoboo WA. There’s loads of stuff there, including a few bits by yours truly. Things about Continuum, Natcon, feminism in spec fic and the furore surrounding it, reviews, fiction, interviews, publishing news,...
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You may or may not know about SeizureOnline. According to the website: Seizure is * a new avenue for authors to get published * a collection of serialised novels * a website with RSS feeds, sub-divided by each story with its own feed * available worldwide * released monthly in collected book format. It’s...
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I’ve been meaning to get around to this for a while and I’ve finally got it done. Another thing I can tick off the ever-growing To Do list. I’ve had a links page here for a while now with interesting online places for you all to visit. I’ve now expanded that and added a...
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I’m very tired today. It’s been an excellent weekend, but tiring. This is because I flew down to Melbourne (boy, are my arms tired… boom-tish) for the Continuum convention, Galaxies By Gaslight. There was a general steampunk theme to this fifth Continuum and it was a lot of fun to be involved in. I’ll...
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@mlvalentine on Twitter pointed me in the direction of this very cool site – DriveThruStuff.com. It’s an online store where you can buy and download all kinds of… well, stuff. There’s RPG (Role Playing Game) stuff, comics, wargaming and so on. But of course, my real interest lies in the fiction sections: DriveThruFantasy, DriveThruHorror...
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No, I won’t be at over two thousand conventions. I wanted to let you all know about a few convention appearances that are coming up in the remaining months of this year. It’s wonderful when people treat me like a real writer and invite me to be a part of these things. The first...
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I recently discovered Horror Bound Magazine. It’s a great little online zine for all things horror, with book reviews, featured authors, interviews, art, photography, poetry and short fiction. The editors over there were kind enough to accept a short story from me for publication and it’s just been released with Issue 7. According to...
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I’m sure most of you have heard enough of me crapping on about writing, books, publishing and so on, especially following the recent blog tour. However, the wonderful Lorna Suzuki is a person not unlike myself – a martial artist and writer. She has a blog over at Author’s Den and you can read...
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So after all this planning, let’s hope this thing works out as it’s supposed to. Day One of my virtual book tour has arrived and the first stop is the blog of Joanna Penn. Joanna’s site is called The Creative Penn and is full of stuff all about writing, self-publishing, print-on-demand, internet sales and...
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