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YBAF&H versus YMCA
I'm delighted to share a TOC with Angela, and many, many other lovely Aussie writers, in the third YEAR'S BEST AUSTRALIAN FANTASY & HORROR, with yet another glorious cover. I suspect that, despite her august academic credentials, Angela Slatter may be ever so slightly misguided in stating that you *should* sing YBAF&H to the tune of "YMCA" - it's ( Read more... ) -
I seem to have been more prolific than I felt
I was prodded into blogging by my rather thrilling acceptance of a poem by Westerly yesterday - and now I'm compelled to add the publications and acceptances that I've shamefully neglected to mention: three poems and a fairy horror story actually published, and several exciting forthcomings. Er, I seem to have been more prolific than I felt I was ( Read more... ) -
Westerly has just accepted a cat poem!
OK, I know I've been a Very Bad Blogger. Life has been a bit tricky lately.
But I got a newsworthy email from Westerly this afternoon. They're taking "Roughly Spherical, and covered in dead leaves" for their next issue. It is, of course, about the Ragdoll in Winter.
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The Next Big Thing blog hop
This is my contribution to The Next Big Thing blog hop, a branching pyramid-of-prose for authors to discuss their latest release or WIP. I was tagged by the amazing Shauna Roberts, another lover of history and a fellow Hadley Rille Books author. (Her deeply historical HRB novel Like Mayflies in the Stream, set in ancient Sumer, was published ( Read more... ) -
I Know What I Saw
My nasty little poem "Mirror" - first published in Midnight Echo 4 (thanks, fabulous editor Lee Battersby!) and reprinted in the Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2010 (thanks, fabulous horror editor Talie Helene!) has now been reprinted in I Know What I Saw, a spooky collection of horror poems from Needfire Poetry (thanks, fabulous editor Barry ( Read more... ) -
Rights and wrongs - the interview
Russ will be interviewed tomorrow at 9:10 am by Jill Emberson, on ABC Radio (Newcastle 1233), about Freedom of Religion and the Secular State.
Freedom of religion and freedom of speech in modern Western democracies couldn't be more topical if it tried.
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Rights and wrongs
Russell's recent book - Freedom of Religion and the Secular State - couldn't be more topical if it tried. (Have you looked at the news lately?) It's a calm, measured, philosophical look at a VERY important issue, and part of the Blackwell Public Philosophy series. AC Grayling said, "This is a must-read: Blackford has given us a forceful and ( Read more... ) -
A centaur poem in The Pedestal Magazine
Just to keep you all on your toes, I'm reporting publishing news that's not a cat poem.
I'm delighted that the current issue of The Pedestal Magazine includes my longish Bronze Age Greece poem, "Their Cold Eyes Pierced my Skin", with centaurs (and no cats). Here's a link to the poem - and there is much more spec fic poetry goodness there, from David ( Read more... ) -
Now it can be told - a cat poem in Futuredaze!!!
It's been under embargo, and I've managed to avoid even hinting about a sekrit - but now it can be told. I will have a long cat poem, with a bit of a Ray Bradbury twist, in the amazingly wonderful YA sf anthology Futuredaze, edited by Hannah Strom-Martin & Erin Underwood, from Underwords. Here's a link: http://underwordsblog.com/2012/07/30/ ( Read more... ) -
Greek is good!
Just woke up two days in a row to acceptances - today of a long poem to The Pedestal Magazine, and yesterday of a story to the School Magazine. The poem is set in a fantasy version of Bronze Age Greece with real centaurs, and the story is in a purely historical Classical Greece (Piraeus, the port of Athens, during the Peloponnesian War), though it ( Read more... )