Here’s a few cool book and magazine related tidbits I thought I’d share. The good news is that Cheryl Morgan has just re-opened Wizard’s Tower books. Not only is the site easy to navigate and even easier to look at, Cheryl has also launched a new book by Juliet E McKenna, A Few Further Tales …
Monthly Archive: March 2012
Mar 25
My inner 14 year old
In what’s a very even handed and sensible post on the whole Best Fanzine vs Best Blog discussion / debate / dogpile, Mark Plummer says, I was pleased to see mondyboy’s response on The Hysterical Hamster, especially because of the way he riffed off Mike’s post by cleverly casting his own reactions as being those …
Mar 21
New episodes of Shooting The Poo and Writer and The Critic
You lucky people! There are new episodes up of both Shooting The Poo guest starring Oscar award winner Shaun Tan and Writer and the Critic featuring another award winner Rob Shearman. Thanks to the guests these are two of our best ever episodes. So you should listen to them. Like, right now!
Mar 18
Don’t be apathetic – get off your arse and nominate for the Ditmars
Look, I know it’s easy to be cynical about the Ditmars, and for that matter local awards like the Chronos and the Tin Ducks. Fuck all people nominate for them, even less actually vote and so the results always feel at best open to calls that the process is corrupt or at worst meaningless. The …
Mar 13
Let’s Replace the Best Fanzine Category with Best Blog
I know I’m coming late to the party, but while reading this post by Mike Glyer from File 770 I discovered that blogs, such as this one, aren’t actually eligible for a Hugo because, to quote Andrew Trembley, “under the current [Hugo] rule, a blog that doesn’t adopt a periodical format isn’t eligible…” Trembley then …
Mar 05
Mondy’s Recommended Reading – Febraury 2012
I’m back from Adelaide Writer’s Week (it was brilliant) and it occurred to me that in the rush of flying to Adelaide, eating canapes, meeting famous writers and talking about Daleks, I hadn’t as yet made my February short fiction recommendations. In February I read from: Interzone – Jan / Feb Fantasy and Science Fiction …
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