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2014 Snapshot interview: Peter M Ball
Peter M Ball is a Queensland writer whose short fiction has been published in Strange Horizons, Apex Magazine and the Harper Voyager anthologies Dreaming Again and Year’s Best SF 15.
He works at the Queensland Writers Centre, managing The Australian Writer’s Marketplace, and is the co-ordinator of the biannual GenreCon writer’s conference.
Peter is ( Read more... ) -
2014 Snapshot interview: Grant Watson
Grant Watson is an award winning writer, critic and playwright.
He has been writing science fiction film criticism since the turn of the century, beginning with his William Atheling Jr award-winning column in Borderlands and continuing through his podcast Bad Film Diaries and more than 900 posts at The Angriest. This year he launched a long-form ( Read more... ) -
2014 Snapshot interview: Lee Battersby
Lee Battersby is the author of The Corpse-Rat King (Angry Robot, 2012) and Marching Dead (Angry Robot, 2013), and his first children's novel 'Magit and Bugrat' is due for release in 2015 by Walker Books ( Read more... ) -
Snapshot 2014
Snapshot has taken place four times in the past 10 years. In 2005, Ben Peek spent a frantic week interviewing 43 people in the Australian spec fic scene, and since then, it's grown every time, now taking a team of interviewers working together to accomplish ( Read more... ) -
Our wedding readings
Nowadays mass media continually bombards us with the message that marriage has made a comeback. Marriage never went out of fashion. Often when people proclaim that it is making a comeback, what they really mean is that more sexist-defined notions of marriage are "in" again. This fact is troubling to feminist movement because it is just as clear ( Read more... ) -
My wedding speech
Firstly, I'd like to welcome you all on behalf of myself and Amanda, and to thank you for coming ( Read more... ) -
On the health or otherwise of local small press
Yesterday's storm in the twitter cup, leaving aside the arrant stupidity of most of it, did throw up an interesting question about how the health of the local SF&F publishing scene is measured ( Read more... ) -
A bunch of fuck ups today...
So, in an attempt to lock down a bunch of old posts, I appear to have managed to send my entire LJ into my-eyes-only mode for the day. Immediately following my deletion of the entire thing for a bit this morning, to boot ( Read more... ) -
Oops.
I appear to have deleted my lj for about an hour this morning.
No conspiracy, just fat fingers and a lack of attention to detail. -
Adjectives
Mediocre.
Deeply, deeply mediocre.