Ellen Datlow’s Year’s Best Honourable Mentions long list

I’m all happy again. It’s such an honour when people you respect give kudos to your work. It was great to read on Monday that Liz Grzyb and Talie Helene, editors of Ticonderoga Publications’ Year’s Best Australian Fantasy & Horror, mentioned four...

Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror Recommended Reading

I’m doing my Snoopy dance. Ticonderoga Publications have just released their Year’s Best Australian Fantasy & Horror Recommended Reading List and I feature on it four times. Four! That’s so cool. I’ve mentioned before how proud I am that...

Happy shiny story prize

You may remember that I recently (and very happily) announced that my story, It’s Always the Children Who Suffer, won the Australian Horror Writers’ Association short story contest. I co-won, in fact, with Zena Shapter. As well as the story being published...

Aurealis Award winners and lessons learned

Last night was Australian speculative fiction’s night of nights, with the Aurealis Awards Gala presentation. The third and final time in Sydney (next year it moves to Canberra) and what a night it was. It’s always a party, where writers, publishers,...

The Ongoing Angst of Successful Writers 6 – Margo Lanagan

Time for the last in my series of “Ongoing Angst” guest posts. Last week we heard from Kaaron Warren, Jo Anderton and Angela Slatter. This week we’ve had Lisa L Hannett and Trudi Canavan. Today Margo Lanagan will be the last of the guest posts and...

The Ongoing Angst of Successful Writers 5 – Trudi Canavan

Time for the next in my series of “Ongoing Angst” guest posts. Last week we heard from Kaaron Warren, Jo Anderton and Angela Slatter. Yesterday it was Lisa L Hannett and today is Trudi Canavan. Margo Lanagan will be the last of the guest posts tomorrow. So...