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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.”
This is some very exciting news. Worldcon this year is in Reno, Nevada. I’m rather disappointed that I can’t be there, as I love cons and would go to them all if I could afford it. But, even though I can’t be there, my work can. Bob Kuhn, aka Tolkien’s Dragon, will be reading...
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I really love Twitter and find it one of the most useful social networks I use. But I regularly get people saying to me things like, “What’s the point of Twitter? I think it’s stupid. I don’t get it.” And therein lie two different things. Asking what it is and saying you don’t understand...
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The latest episode of ThrillerCast is now available. In this episode we talk about our Parsec Award nominations, fiction podcasts, I review The Intruders by Michael Marshall, David reviews C J West’s The End Of Marking Time, then we go on to discuss the importance of reading for a writer and what kind of...
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The May edition of the Australian Speculative Fiction Blog Carnival has been posted to NecroScope. Take a peek, and find out what’s been happening in your community this past month. http://zombiefictionreview.blogspot.com/2011/05/news-australian-speculative-fiction.html There’s some good stuff, so make yourself a cuppa and have a browse. .
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This makes me a bit sad. I’ve always had an affinity for typewriters, since I wrote my first ever stories on my mum’s old Remington when I was about seven years old. I’ve used a typewriter as my website logo for a while now. They’ve always fascinated me as these things that can make...
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I was checking in on the news over breakfast this morning and came across this terrible story. Actress Elisabeth Sladen, who played Sarah Jane Smith in Doctor Who and had her own Sarah Jane Adventures series more recently, died last night aged only 63. She’d been fighting cancer for some time, apparently. This news...
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I am totally psyched to announce that my story, The King’s Accord, originally in the Flesh & Bone: Rise Of The Necromancers anthology from Pill Hill Press, is going to be reprinted in Ticonderoga Publications inaugural Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror anthology. This is my first ever Year’s Best reprint and I couldn’t...
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The winners of the Australian Shadows Awards for this year have been announced. They are: Long Fiction winner: Under Stones by Bob Franklin (Affirm Press) Edited Publication winner: Macabre: A Journey through Australia’s Darkest Fears, edited by Angela Challis & Marty Young (Brimstone Press) Short Fiction winner: She Said by Kirstyn McDermott (Scenes from...
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I’m really pleased to have a story coming out in this anthology from couer de lion publishing, edited by Keith Stevenson. It’s a science fiction anthology featuring 27 original stories of humanity’s adventures out there, anywhere but Earth. It’s a great theme and the full Table of Contents has been released now, along with...
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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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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 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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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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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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My short story, Stand Off, was published in text and podcast by Wily Writers back in 2009. I was honoured when Wily Writers then contacted me and bought the story again to reprint in their first Best Of anthology. This is my first inclusion in a Best Of book, hopefully the first of many....
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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.
Our world is built on language and storytelling. Without stories, we are nothing.
The Word is a place to learn more about me, my stories and the words of others. Click the links along the top for all kinds of stuff, search the sidebars for loads of other stuff, click on book covers for reviews and previews, enjoy the blog and don't be shy to share your words, in comments or send me an email:
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