Fantastic Fiction

If you’re a regular around here you’ll know that I periodically post a bit of free fiction under the Friday Flash banner. Friday Flash is the brainchild of J M Strother. His idea was that every friday people post a piece of flash fiction (1,000 words or less) on their websites and share said...
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I’m prepared to bet that the above title has never been seen by humans before. And it takes a dude like Jason Fischer to make that happen. Jason is a good friend of mine, a top notch writer, a Writers Of The Future winner, no less, and a master of puns. His novella, Gravesend,...
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If you’re a Kindle owner and haven’t read RealmShift yet, my publisher (Gryphonwood Press) is running a special offer at the moment where the book is available for just US0.99c from the Amazon Kindle Store. Its usual Kindle price is US$2.99 so it’s a pretty good offer. I think the special is only going...
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The nominations for this year’s Ditmar Awards are out. Some great names in here and some really deserving nominees. You’ll be able to vote online soon at http://ditmars.sf.org.au/2010. Best Novel * Leviathan, Scott Westerfeld (Penguin) * Liar, Justine Larbalestier (Bloomsbury) * World Shaker, Richard Harland (Allen & Unwin) * Slights, Kaaron Warren (Angry Robot...
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Most of you know that I keep a foot in both camps, being a writer and a publisher. My small publishing company, Blade Red Press, has just announced its latest project – a single author collection of dark short fiction from Australian author Bill Congreve. The collection is called Souls Along The Meridian, and...
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It’s no mystery to anyone that reads this blog that I’m a big fan of movies. A lot of you may also be aware that my writing style is often called cinematic or that people talk about how my books would make great films. This pleases me no end – I would love to...
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Aussiecon 4, the 68th World Science Fiction Convention, has announced the ballot for the 2010 Hugo Awards and all the votes have been cast. Now it’s just a case of counting it all up. There are some awesome nominees this year and some truly deserving ones. I’m looking forward to the announcements on these....
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I think I love Christopher Nolan a little bit. He’s made some of my favourite movies of all time – Memento, Insomnia, Batman Begins, The Prestige, The Dark Knight. I am constantly going on about the homogenous rubbish coming out of Hollywood and lamenting that there are no clever, interesting, new stories being made...
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Here’s a little something I’m quite excited about. On October 31st, which as you all know is Halloween, there’s going to be a little horror-fest at Dymocks Southland bookstore. A bunch of us dark writer folk are going to be doing a group book signing there in celebration of all things… well, dark. It’s...
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Margo Lanagan is a great spec fic writer from Sydney. She’s incredibly talented and quite justifiably well recognised for her work. Recently you may remember me talking about her novella Sea Hearts in the X6 Novellanthology from Coeur De Lion. Her latest novel is Tender Morsels, published by Allen & Unwin in Australia, Knopf...
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