Crime Writing Week with Marele Day 2011
Spend a week in residence with acclaimed crime writer Marele Day at Varuna, the Writers' House in Katoomba. Marele will be in residence for two separate weeks with eight selected writers - four...
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A world-shaking idea, yours for 3 mill
Hat tip to my friend Cat Sparks for this one. She pointed me to this Bleeding Cool post on the subject. There’s an offer on ebay at the moment that must have film producers all over the world fighting...
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Brave or Crazy
People keep telling me I'm brave to start my own publishing company - at the moment. Maybe I am, but I doubt there's ever a sensible time to do something this bold and adventurous. In fact crazy is a...
View ArticleAmanda Hocking is the exception, not the rule
The web has been abuzz lately (for example) with stories of Amanda Hocking’s incredible self-publishing success (and similar success by other indies). In a nutshell, Hocking has nine self-published...
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Happy Dancing
One of the many joys of being a publisher - yay! that's me, now - is finding and snaffling incredibly talented people. And I'm not just talking writers - who are especially useful to a new publishing...
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Things that make me happy
This is an end of shelf display at Dymocks in Southland, Victoria. I’m stoked to be sharing bookstore shelf space with such tremendous company. Thanks to the manager there, Chuck McKenzie, for putting...
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Chasing Odysseus
Sulari Gentill’s first book A Few Right Thinking Men recently made the regional shortlist in the category South East Asia and Pacific Best First Book for the 2011 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. This is a...
View ArticleRead an ebook week
March 6th to 12th is Read An Ebook Week. You may or may not enjoy ebooks already and I’m not here to convert you. But, in celebration of the week, my publisher is making all their books half price on...
View ArticleGreat fiction at The Red Penny Papers
I want to periodically post about places that publish quality speculative fiction that you may not have heard about. It’s fair to assume that any spec fic fans out there know all about the big names...
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The Game has a cover
My short story Running Wild With The Hunt will be published in The Game anthology from Seven Realms Publishing, due in the northern hemisphere summer. All the stories in the book are inspired by the...
View ArticleNew Historical Series due out in 2012 / 2013 from Felicity Young
In exciting news from WA, Felicity Young has just let us know that she has signed a new deal with HarperCollins to publish a new historical mystery series. The first book will be out in 2012, and the...
View ArticleNight-Mantled, an ebook briefly free
I mentioned a little while ago that Night-Mantled: The Best of Wily Writers (Volume 1) was available now. As part of Read An Ebook Week, the publisher has made the ebook edition free. After March 12th...
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Midnight Echo 5 available now
I’m a very proud member of the Australian Horror Writers Association and a big fan of the Association’s magazine, Midnight Echo. I’m really hoping that they’ll buy one of my stories one day. In the...
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Murky Depths #16, featuring me
I’m a big fan of Murky Depths magazine. It’s a classy publication and won the British Fantasy Awards – Best Magazine/Periodical 2010, so other people think it’s cool too. I was really pleased when they...
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Real Life Superheroes – the saga continues to continue
I’m sure you all remember the bizarre RLSH – Real Life Super Hero – thing that blew up here back at the end of 2008. If not, refresh your memory with this post (that I had to close after more than 150...
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View ArticleThe Age reviews A Dissection of Murder by Clan Destineer Felicity Young
Suffragette march turns into bloodbath Reviewed by Christine Cremen Here is welcome news for local fans of the historical mystery. Although this sub-genre is popular with readers everywhere, until...
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