Grant Watson

I think a core appeal of the fanzine is that it isn’t transient. Individual episodes of podcasts and blogs in particular feel very ephemeral and disposable. Since each issue of a fanzine is a discrete, concrete object, it feels like is has a bit more weight to it than other media.

I don’t think fanzines are likely to ever go away, but ( Read more... )

Matthew Chrulew

>Two years on from Aussiecon 4, what do you think are some of the biggest changes to the Australian Spec Fic scene?

The rise of self-promotional spamming as a way of life

Simon Brown

Difficult to assess from a distance, but surely the big development not just over the past two years but the past decade has been the increase in the ( Read more... )

John Richards

My dream is that we would make any science fiction for adults at all. I had a meeting with a TV executive recently who seemed terrfied I was going to mention spaceships. He kept saying “no spaceships!”. So obviously now I want to make something about spaceships. I’ve always been interested in doing a Star Trek style thing cast ( Read more... )

Anna Tambour

But yes, living in a place uncluttered by humans constantly slaps me with how little I know, and pricks me, often literally - about this roiling mass of curiosities and contrarinesses that is the world. But it doesn’t matter where one physically lives these days. Almost everyone has the ability to shut off observation and contemplation ( Read more... )

Abigail Nathan

A traditionally published author usually comes to editing through a publisher (although yes, they may have hired an editor to polish their original manuscript for submission). The editing process is provided for them - and forced on them, really; they might retain the right to refuse certain changes or resist editorial suggestions, ( Read more... )

Well no, I'm not quite egotistical enough to post my favourite quotes from my own interview.

So you'll just have to read the whole thing :-)

Originally posted at David McDonald's blog:

2012 Aussie Snapshot: Ben Payne

Ben Payne was born from an egg on a mountain top. During his time in the house, he has editored verious publicatons with varying ( Read more... )

Greg Mellor

The actual theme for the collection came about during 2011 … I won’t give too much away, as I’d like readers to see for themselves, and I don’t want Russell to tear up the contract before the book is published! What I can say is that there are stories about discovering who we are in the face of life-threatening technology and aliens; or ( Read more... )

Satima Flavell

The boom in self-publishing has also played a part in the shift of emphasis, of course, and I’m pleased to see that many self-publishing authors are now not rushing to put their first drafts up on Smashwords, but are seeking professional editing services first. I now specialise in doing ‘mini-assessments’ for less experienced writers ( Read more... )

Glenda Larke

As an Australian, the daughter of a farmer, I know about the preciousness of water. We bathed in untreated water pumped up from the river when I was a kid. Some of my earliest memories are about shortages - the summer a rat drowned in our rainwater tank, for example. Or the night my father walked through the smouldering remains of a ( Read more... )

Isobelle Carmody

I do think that short stories are a very different form. The story The Wolf Prince in Metro Winds is long enough to have been a book i its own right, and certainly it is longer than some books. Yet to me it is a long short story - or a novella. It is not a book. The same with The Girl who could see the Wind. For all its length and ( Read more... )