So the world fantasy award nominees were announced a few days back. If you don’t already know who is on the ballot, you can find out here. Overall it’s a ballot I endorse (because, of course, World Fantasy has been holding its breath waiting for my tick of approval). As you might guess, I’m especially …
Tag Archive: Rob Shearman
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!
Feb 27
I’m off to the Adelaide Writers Festival
On Friday I head off to Adelaide for the very first time* to be at the Adelaide Writers Festival. I’ll be on two panels. The first is “On and Off The Page” and is on the Saturday at 12:00. It features Megan Abbott, Paul Callaghan and Rob Shearman, with me playing the role as moderator. …
Feb 12
Nominating the Hugos – Novellas, Novelettes and Short Stories
Because I’m a realist and I know I’ll run out of time, I thought I’d throw my nominations for novella, novelette and short story together in one post. Novellas ‘‘Times Table’’, Robert Shearman (Everyone’s Just So So Special) Comment: Last year I joined the Last Short Story crew and seriously believed I’d read at least …
Jan 24
My favourite reviewers on the Web
So, following all that kerfuffle last week, I thought I’d mention the reviewers who I read on a regular basis and who inform my book-buying. I’ll go out on a limb here and say that David Hebblethwaite is the best reviewer on the interwebs.* Although he has a genre background, he often reviews literary novels …
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