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Podcasts on Every Day Fiction
Over the school holidays I indulged in some podcast recording. I volunteered to read something for Star Ship Sofa, which was a longer undertaking than I had anticipated but was good, classic SF fun. I also recorded a number of very short stories for Every Day Fiction. Starting last week a series of 6 podcast stories is appearing on EDF, each ( Read more... ) -
Kiwi Fantasy Authors Rockin' Out
Philippa Ballantine's Geist is coming out at the end of the month, and to celebrate she's giving away Chasing the Bard in pdf and epub formats (until the end of October):
http://www.pjballantine.com/2010/10/04/chasing-the-bard-for-free/
And here's the trailer for Geist (made by Tee Morris)
Meanwhile Helen Lowe's The Heir of Night was released in ( Read more... ) -
Robots in Wellington
This is a music video that I strongly approve of :-) The strobing stops after the first few seconds, so it shouldn't induce too many seizures.
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Kiwi Culture in Spec Fic Stories
Over the past couple of weeks I have greatly enjoyed dipping into A Foreign Country, an anthology of New Zealand speculative fiction from Random Static Press. It’s been fascinating to see the range of material and the kiwi flavour coming through in the stories.
I have a bit of a love/hate relationship with New Zealand short literary fiction. There ( Read more... ) -
Kapiti Observer - A Foreign Country article
SpecFic writer answers disturbing questions
By MARGARET IRVINE
Kapiti Observer, Thursday 26th August, 2010
Worlds where strange creatures roam the hills of Miramar, desperate survivors cling to the remains of a submerged country and the residents of Gisborne serve alien masters are portrayed in A Foreign Country, a new volume of speculative fiction ( Read more... ) -
A Foreign Country - short story anthology
The book launch for the Random Static Press anthology A Foreign Country was great fun, and I am thoroughly enjoying the book. My story No Hidden Costs is up third on the table of contents (which can apparently abbreviated to TOC), just after Simon Petrie's Portia Goes A-Hunting and before Lee Murray's Consumed. It's a beautifully put together ( Read more... ) -
10 years of awesome
Started the day by cooking Chicken Satay and arm-wrestling my wife before 8am rolled around. It was a fun way to kick off our 10 year anniversary! This was followed up by shopping, writing, Debbie's mum looking after Dom while we went out to a cafe, delicious curry for dinner and more writing ( Read more... ) -
ReSpec'd - Taking The Tunnel into Outer Space
A flash fiction story of mine - The Tunnel - is up on the excellent Wily Writers website in both text and audio formats this week. It's a flash story, so is under 1000 words. The audio version is something like 6 minutes long / 2.8mb. Set against a backdrop of war, it's a story about... well, why don't you read it or listen to it, it won't take ( Read more... ) -
Shades of Sentience anthology - pretty!
This week two copies of the Shades of Sentience anthology arrived in our letterbox. Why two copies? Because two authors in our household are included. And with the stories being arranged alphabetically by author Debbie Cowens' A Final Glimpse of Light and Dark appears just before my own Murray the Sex Machine.
It's a handsome tome and a great ( Read more... ) -
Podcasting, radio and so forth
I’ve recorded a few stories now, both my own and other people’s (for librivox and everydayfiction.com), and it’s been interesting for me to reflect on which stories best suit my current reading style and skills.
( Podcasting skills, styles, and plans... )
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