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Sidekicks! Why Should the Heroes Get All The Attention?

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Y’all may remember, some time last year, I had an essay about world-building published by Alliteration Ink in a collection of essays about world-building called “Eighth Day Genesis: A Worldbuilding Codex“. Well, the good folk at AInk do all kinds of other books and have been putting out some great spec. fic. anthologies of [...]

March 17th, 2013 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Category: announcements | 5 comments

Review: Outlaw Bodies

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[This review first appeared in the New York Journal of Books.]

Some publishers, while not necessarily better than others, are certainly different. The Future Fire publishes an online magazine of speculative fiction with a bit more focus on social issues and a bit more political awareness than you see in most sci-fi and fantasy [...]

November 15th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: review | One comment

Evolution and Space

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I have a new short story out as a “single” on Amazon. It’s called “Finding the Future” and it’s priced at $0.99c for those on a low budget. For pensioners, concession card holders and people who wouldn’t spit in my mouth if my teeth were on fire, you can actually get the story for [...]

October 27th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: announcements | Leave a comment

From Stage Door Shadows Launches Today

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Just a reminder that there are free stories! The publisher, eMergent Publishing, will make each of the stories free for 48 hours, putting them up one per hour over the next two days. At time of writing, three are up already.

Check out this page for the complete schedule.

And this is the page [...]

September 29th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: announcements | Leave a comment

From Stage Door Shadows Launch

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The latest anthology from eMergent Publishing is to be launched at Smiths Alternate Bookstore in Canberra at the Conflux 8 spec fic convention on 29th September. Called From Stage Door Shadows, it contains 26 stories from writers around the English-speaking world, each one based on a line from Elton John’s hit Tiny Dancer. The [...]

September 4th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: announcements | 2 comments

Christmas in July – Have a Good One

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And, to help you make the most of your turkey and mince pies, why not curl up with a good book?

Deck the Halls, “a merry measure of cross-genre short fiction subverting traditional notions of the holiday season,” is a collection of 32 short stories (each around 1500 words) by mainly Australian writers (but [...]

July 17th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: announcements | Leave a comment

IN SITU Hits the Shelves

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I have a story in an anthology called In Situ and it’s going to be published tomorrow (12 noon New York time on 10th July – which is 2 am Brisbane time on 11th July) so stand by your Amazon “buy” button because this is a collection of stories you won’t want to miss. [...]

July 10th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Category: announcements | Leave a comment

A Few Quick Reads (One for Free!)

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I’ve had a few short works appearing in anthologies and mags lately and I thought you might be interested if I did a quick summary – especially since one is free and they’re all easily accessible.

The Earth Ship – This is a longish short story that I put out a couple of weeks [...]

June 5th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: announcements | Leave a comment

The Earth Ship Available on Kindle

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Marketing Maestro, Joe Konrath, says you should not only sell collections of your short stories on Kindle, but also sell each of the stories in the collection as a separate item. So I thought I’d have a go at putting a short story (a fairly long short story as it happens, nearly 9,000 words) [...]

May 17th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: announcements | One comment

New Year’s Day 5 GWC

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May the Fourth be strong with you all. Yes, you’ve noticed, it’s May the 4th and yesterday was the end of the fourth year of my writing career. (By trawling back through the hundreds of posts I’ve written since 4th May 2008, you’ll see that, not only do I mark the date each year, [...]

May 4th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: announcements | Leave a comment
 
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