Jeff Vandermeer has a feature interview at Omnivoracious with L. Timmel Duchamp, the founder of Aqueduct Press. Aqueduct Press have just published their 50th book in just 6 years of press. It's not Helen Merrick's book, below, but they published that too and it's well worth a read. Aqueduct Press is one of the presses that inspire and motivate me. ( Read more... )

It's here5 people asked - 3 men, 2 women ( Read more... )

So, I'm not that much interested in the Mind Melds over at SF Signal. You can probably guess why but jonathanstrahan pointed it out to me yesterday and I meant to post this yesterday but ran out of time ( Read more... )

Oooooooh too many tweets!!!

So what stuff would I be tweeting right now if I could?

I'm glad i went to the bathroom 5 minutes ago cause now it's raining. This may mean no chocolates in my near future.

And @tezzasaurus had to blog me this link: here to Boing Boing - I would probably have replied on twitter but instead will say, I am refraining ( Read more... )

Last night whilst talking about the Youtube and Periodic Table of Women in SF, Tansy explained how it's all part of a book trailer for a new single author collection by sandramcdonald. A series of stories revolving around the character Diana Comet. I was intrigued and have been checking out her blog and the book. Turns out that she's running a series to ( Read more... )

I'd like to think that the comments posted over on Black Gate magazine in response to the post on the recent call for subscribers to renew their subscriptions to Realms of Fantasy is a troll.

2. DEATH, DEATH, DEATH to “Political Correctness ( Read more... )

I tossed and turned last night. Really I need to switch off on a lot of this stuff. But ... some negative feedback came my way yesterday about Galactic Suburbia. And you know, I get that not everyone is going to agree with me, that other people have different frameworks, perspectives, interests and concerns. That's like the point - it makes up the ( Read more... )

Earlier this week cassiphone and I (and then some others via twitter) listened to a podcast that attempted to commentate on the Before They Were Giants Table of Contents discussion of the week before. In that podcast I was specifically singled out as being somehow responsible for what occurred and as such I sat through the discussion ( Read more... )

I'm sick and my voice is hoarse so I can't shout as loud as I would like but this stuff is just starting to make me *very* angry. I would just let it slide by as yet another man with another non-diverse, reading experience but I did say on the latest episode of Galactic Suburbia that I am going to point and shout louder and louder on this issue. ( Read more... )

I've been trying to collate some information for some media kits for Twelfth Planet Press and was hunting around for resource material. Thanks to responders on Twitter, I got started on making the following list. I'm particularly interested in the number of female Australian authors who have been collected. I started making a list and I noticed it ( Read more... )