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Wily Writers is awesome
It's NZ Specfic blogging week (ending today). It has inspired me to write a quick plug for the Wily Writers website, which is packed with excellent short stories available for free in text and podcast formats. Many of the stories are by NZ authors!
Here's some of the kiwi flava tales:
“The Derby” by Ripley Patton - http://www.wilywriters.com/blog/?p= ( Read more... ) -
Protect the raw seedling - Youtube robot vs reality
I had a look at the closed captions which were auto-generated for Dominic and the Last Ocean. The Youtube robot made a valiant attempt to understand my accent but fell short on a few key phrases:
* dominic had a dream about a magic of adventure visiting defrost c indian talk defiance
* the penguins were pretty funny on the land underwater they ( Read more... ) -
Dominic and the Last Ocean
Our first entry into the Last Ocean Online Film Contest (there's another, sillier one coming).
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This is a brag post.
My new flu is way cooler than yours. Srsly, my flu has blisters. Hands, feet, inside the mouth, my flu is awesome. It kicks all the other flus I've had square in the protein sheath. It may be a kiddy-flu, and the blisters may be small, and sure, it hasn't actually made me feel that unwell (beyond a sore throat) but its name is awesome - Hand ( Read more... ) -
Recent goings on
It's been a while since I updated here, but life has been trucking on. My son has possibly-maybe fractured his first bone (left leg, just above the ankle) and is in a cast. School is busy but fun. I've been eating healthful foods of late with no unhealthful snacks. Y'know, the usual ( Read more... ) -
Tales for Canterbury
Preorders are now open for Tales for Canterbury, an anthology to raise funds for the Red Cross and their efforts in Christchurch. The list of contributors blows me away, and I'm looking forward to reading the stories next month when it comes out. Being someone who enjoys playing with microphones and editing software I made a wee (30 second) promo ( Read more... ) -
Short Listed for Tessa Duder Award
This year the inaugural Tessa Duder Award is going to be given out to an as-yet-unpublished YA author from NZ. The award is part of the annual Storylines awards and includes some cash money and an offer of publication by Harper Collins.
I was delighted to learn over the weekend that the manuscript I submitted made the short list! I won't be ( Read more... ) -
The story so far...
The lovely Ripley Patton is collating a list of Sir Julius Vogel eligible stories and people for the SpecFic NZ website. She ( Read more... ) -
A Foreign Country - podcast
11mb, 45 minutes (or thereabouts), 2 short stories - Miramar is Possum Free, read by the author Richard Barnes, and The Future of the Sky by Ripley Patton, read by Angel Leigh McCoy.
You can download the podcast here:
http://mattcowens.podbean.com/2010/11/13/a-foreign-country-new-zealand-speculative-fiction/You can also rate it and/or leave ( Read more... )
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