It's that time again! A bunch of interviews are being conducted profiling the movers and shakers of the current Australian science fiction, fantasy and horror writing scene.

It's aways fascinating reading. Here are some of my picks for the interesting quotes to come out of the interviews so far:

Traci Harding

The pleasure of writing ancient ( Read more... )

Ticonderoga have announced the contents of their second anthology of Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, and I think it looks like a great TOC.

You can check it out here.

I'm particularly excited to see Peter Ball's story, Briar Day included. Briar Day was one of only three stories by Australian authors that I published last year, which to my mind ( Read more... )

This weekend I went to the Buddha's Birthday festival at Southbank.


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Look, I was fairly sure that a couple of years ago I explained to somebody the exact final answer to the male/female debate, in clear and unarguable terms. I didn't keep a copy of the email though.

Despite this, some people are still arguing about it. And as I am a human still, living among you all, I sometimes have to read and think about these ( Read more... )

Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer


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Doesn't get much more basic than tonight's dinner! Just stir-fried some veges and some soba noodles.

We didn't have any sauce in the cupboard so I just chopped up some garlic for flavour. And it was delicious!! Yummo!


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It was nice getting out of the city on the weakend.

The woman in the art shop in Kalbar said how quiet it was because the weather was wet, and hardly anyone comes out when it rains.

And I can understand that, because we were in two minds as to whether it was worth going out in the wet.

It's strange though, really, because driving back I thought to ( Read more... )

This weekend's adventure was a road trip for grandma's birthday.

Jen and I were picked up by Jen's mum, Lorraine, and we all drove to Ipswich to meet my mum and her mum.

Then we all drove out to Kalbar, a country town outside Ipswich, for lunch. I had a pumpkin salad, which was delicious. And we enjoyed checking out the small town of Kalbar, with ( Read more... )

Tonight's dish was Ethiopian Chickpea Wat. First time I've tried it; it was pretty similar to the chickpea curry I made last week, but delicious nevertheless! I varied the recipe with some spare cannelini beans I had lying around...


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The Ditmar nominees have been released!

Congratulations to everybody who made the list! In a way, you're all winners, already……………. (but some of you will be losers later).

The list is:

Best Novel
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* The Shattered City (Creature Court 2), Tansy Rayner Roberts
(HarperCollins)
* Burn Bright, ( Read more... )