The shortlists for the Aurealis Awards were announced today. Congratulations to everyone who made the lists and to all the judges who made it to the end of the process!!

In particular, congratulations to the Twelfth Planet Press writers who made the shortlists (and to all the writers in Sprawl, which would be far less of a book without any one of ( Read more... )

We have so much going on at Twelfth Planet Press before we take a break over the holidays (all 4 days of them!)

We have a Silly Season Sale going on with a bunch of special bundles on offer as well as a 12 Days Before Xmas Sale which started yesterday and has a different daily special. Today's til Wednesday night is a very good deal on A Book of ( Read more... )

Today I saw the first concepts for the cover of Nightsiders. I love watching Amanda work. I think I'm starting to love watching the design side of things as much as I love watching writing come together. It's fascinating to watch things develop and to provide feedback and see what the artist/writer does with that ( Read more... )

It's almost a little surreal - Amanda and I have been finalising the next book to go to the printer and Sue and I have been working on the collection to go to the printer after that and today The Company Articles of Edward Teach/The Angaelian Apocalypse arrived!

Here's a close up of the book, with cute puppy for scale:


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Matt Chrulew, read from his story about Alien visitation / Religious End times and how these events brought changes to the lives and outlooks of a formerly tight group of twenties something friends who find themselves at the sharp edge of changes to their world.

Thoraiya Dyer read from her story, which she had considered to be ‘Adult’ due to it’s ( Read more... )

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I feel like I've really lost my way with blogging. Most of the time these days, when I finally sit down to livejournal, it's so late at night and I'm so very tired that I just don't feel chatty enough to update. Once upon a time I could never imagine a day when I wouldn't been read up on my flist at any moment in time. Now I grab ten minutes while ( Read more... )