This starts out with some feel good, happy carefree plots but be prepared for the sobering finish.

Looking at the gender breakdown of the Aurealis winners and shortlists over time.

Aurealis SF Novel category:

Here is the breakdown by gender of the SF novel category for the history of the award:

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Whilst I slog away processing the full stats for the history of the Aurealis Awards, here’s some stats for the current shortlists. I think these will be interesting to compare against the average, when I have that. Being a creative publishing phd, I’m also very interested in publisher statistics. I’m in the process of thinking through performance ( Read more... )

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Thanks everyone for your responses to yesterday’s vox pop. I’m going to tally all the responses later because I think there were some interesting things in it.

Meanwhile. Today the Aurealis Award shortlist came out and I’m delighted to see the Twelve Planets series get a few nods. Namely, Bad Power by Deborah Biancotti, Nightsiders by Sue Isle and ( Read more... )

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... )

Signed Speculative Fiction on Sale!Some of the biggest names in Australian speculative fiction have cleared out their cupboards and the contents are being sold on eBay ( Read more... )

I was very sad to miss the final Fantastic Queensland Aurealis Award Ceremony. Especially considering the enormous honour for Twelfth Planet Press being involved in 7 separate nominations, many of our authors were attending and because it's such a fun industry related weekend.

Instead, I hopped on the freeway down to editormum, hung out with her in her ( Read more... )

My weekend was kinda filled with bouncing squee. Even though I've been sick in bed since coming home, being with my friends, finally meeting people I know online, catching up and talking with authors about forthcoming TPP projects and attending a few industry things really rejuvinated and energised me. The weekend left me with so much to think ( Read more... )

I figured it out - I am a fangirl after all.

The moment of clarity occurred during the Aurealis Awards when I sat with benpayne, cassiphone and editormum and we followed along each category, commentated amongst ourselves and I texted home the results to kathrynlinge who was kindly uploading them to the internet. It was about the time I realised that we were probably the only people in ( Read more... )

Been sitting here all day gearing up to do my report but cassiphone as usual does it better: http://cassiphone.livejournal.com/212731.htmlRead more... )