… but I’m fresh out of idea. Oh, I’m certain there’s a barnstorming controversy around the corner that I’ll feel the need to comment on. But other than note that I thought Prometheus was a bit shit. (Actually allot shit), I have nothing to report. That said, here’s something interesting things that other people have …
Monthly Archive: June 2012
Jun 25
Writer and the Critic – Episode 20
It feels like forever since we recorded this episode. It’s that famous one from Continuum 8 where I pretend I’m Jim C Hines and try and pose like the cover of Anne McCaffrey’s The Crystal Singer. I honestly twinged a calf muscle doing that. Still it’s a fun episode. Alison and Kelly are in great …
Jun 13
I’ll always remember Continuum 8
I’m not going to pretend otherwise, winning both the Chronos and Ditmar awards for the Writer and the Critic with my co-host Kirstyn and in my home State of Victoria was one of my proudest moments ever.* You see, before that moment I’d never won anything in my entire life. The closest I’d come was …
Jun 08
Snapshot 2012: Andrew Macrae
Andrew Macrae is a writer, editor and musician. He works full-time running his own freelance copywriting and editing business called Magic Typewriter. He plays in a three-piece instrumental rock band called The Television Sky. He is very handsome. 1) While I know you’re a progressive thinker, there’s something old fashioned in the way you’ve approached …
Jun 08
Snapshot 2012: Jon Blum
Jonathan Blum was imported from America fifteen years ago by his wife Kate Orman. Together they made a name for themselves in the Doctor Who novels while the show was off the air, collecting multiple Aurealis and Ditmar nominations and a Best Novel award for Fallen Gods. He’s also written radio plays, short stories, short …
Jun 07
Snapshot 2012: Sara Creasy
Sara Creasy grew up in a tumbling-down Victorian house in the West Midlands, UK, where she tapped out her first stories on a tiny blue typewriter. After moving to southeastern Australia as a teenager, her love of all things fantastical hooked her on science fiction. Meanwhile, in real life, a biology degree led to work …
Jun 07
Snapshot 2012: Stephanie Gunn
Stephanie Gunn is a lapsed (mad) scientist and writer of fantasy that slides between the mythic, dark and urban. She has previously judged for the Australian Shadows Awards and the Aurealis Awards, and is currently the convener of the horror panel of this year’s Aurealis Awards. She has reviewed for the now-defunct Horrorscope and now …
Jun 06
Snapshot 2012: Rocky Wood
Rocky Wood lives in Melbourne and is the co-author of three major works about Stephen King, each of which was nominated for the Horror Writers Association’s Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction – ‘Stephen King: Uncollected, Unpublished’, ‘Stephen King: The Non-Fiction’ and ‘Stephen King: The Literary Companion’. The latter won the Bram Stoker …
Jun 06
Snapshot 2012: Amanda Pillar
Amanda Pillar is an awarding winning editor and speculative fiction author who lives in Victoria, Australia, with her partner and two children, Saxon and Lilith (Burmese cats). Amanda has had numerous short stories published and is the Editor-in-Chief for Morrigan Books. She has co-edited the fiction anthologies Voices (2008), Grants Pass (2009), The Phantom Queen …
Jun 05
Snapshot 2012: Kim Wilkins
Kim Wilkins is the author of more than 20 novels across a range of genres and age groups, though her heart belongs to adult spec fic. She has a PhD from University of Queensland, where she teaches in their award-winning writing program. She researches in the field of medieval literature and medievalism, writes about vikings …
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