Six stories on Ellen Datlow’s Year’s Best Honorable Mentions List!
So exciting! Ellen Datlow has just published the full list of Honorable Mentions for Best Horror of the Year, Vol 4 — and she gives the nod to SIX of my stories! Hannett, L. L. “Gutted,” Shimmer 13....
View ArticleA Miscellany of Links, New and Old
The holiday season was fun, festive, and frantic — so I’ve been remiss in mentioning a few new exciting happenings over the past couple of weeks! Before Christmas, Azra Alagic did a great interview...
View ArticleOn Angst and Fear and Envy…
For the past week, Alan Baxter has been posting an excellent bunch of interviews on his website, in a series he’s calling “The Ongoing Angst of Successful Writers”. So far he’s interviewed Kaaron...
View ArticleYear’s Best Australian Fantasy & Horror 2012
Finally, I can announce that I’ve got TWO stories in the Year’s Best Australian Fantasy & Horror 2012, edited by Liz Grzyb and Talie Helene. HOORAY!! It’s wonderful to see so many great authors in...
View ArticlePOSTSCRIPTS #32/33 & #34/35: Two volumes, two stories!
(artwork: Pete Von Sholly’s “Troop Inspection” for Far Voyager) On the weekend, I got news about the next two Postscripts anthologies — they’re on their way, and have fantastic line-ups! I’m...
View ArticleYear’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2014
So happy to be able to announce that ‘Vox’ has been selected for the Year’s Best Australian Fantasy & Horror 2014 — to be published in late October this year. The contents were released today, and...
View ArticleBlurring the Line: Cover and Contents!
Right, so, I meant to post about this last week but, well, you know how it goes. Time passes. No posts. Lo and behold, here we are. At any rate, I’m stoked to finally be able to announce that I’ve got...
View ArticleThe Joy that was GenreCon 2015
Peter Ball launches GenreCon at the Friday night cocktail party. I just got back from a fantastic weekend up in Brisbane for GenreCon 2015. Organised by the Queensland Writers Centre, hosted at the...
View ArticleDreaming in the Dark: Gorgeous cover, gorgeous review!
So, have I mentioned this stunning new anthology — edited by none other than Jack Dann! — in which I have a new story coming out this year? Jack refers to Dreaming in the Dark as a showcase anthology,...
View ArticleAurealis Awards 2016: In which ‘A Right Pretty Mate’ is nominated!
The Aurealis Awards shortlists have been announced and I’m so very delighted to see my story ‘A Right Pretty Mate’ nominated in the Best YA Short Story category! This is the first story of mine that...
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