Ditmar Awards open for nominations

It’s that time of year again where the Australian Ditmar Awards (our very own mini-Hugos) are open for nominations. These are the fan-voted awards where anyone active in fandom can nominate work they think is worthy. What the hell does “active in...

I WON AN AUREALIS AWARD!

This post is going to be self-indulgent! The Aurealis Awards are Australia’s premiere genre fiction awards. Celebrating all forms of fantasy, science-fiction and horror, they’ve been around since 1995. It’s no lie to admit that ever since I started...

THE FALL is out now, plus exciting Gulpepper news!

Everything is coming up Gulpepper lately and I couldn’t be happier or more proud. Firstly, the second book of Tales From The Gulp, The Fall, is out today! Go grab it, please! It’s worth bearing in mind that this isn’t so much a sequel as a...

The Gulp makes the Bram Stoker Awards® Preliminary Ballot

What an absolute trip to wake up this morning and see this. The 2021 Bram Stoker Awards® Preliminary Ballot was just announced and THE GULP is on there for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection. That’s fantastic! Now this most definitely isn’t the...

2021 Awards Eligibility Post

It’s that time of the year again, where people are compiling their best reads of the year lists and considering what they might nominate for awards. Speaking for myself, I love it when people make eligibility posts like these to help us remember what came out...

2021 Ditmar Awards open for nominations

The Australian fan-voted Ditmar Awards are open for nominations for all eligible work published in 2020. Last year was a bit of a mess as hardly anyone knew about the awards opening and not many nominations or votes went through. This year, there’s not a huge...