The Norma Hemming was awarded on Sunday night to Anita Bell and Sara Douglass. I was really thrilled to hear that Sue Isle’s Nightsiders was awarded an honourable mention. The press release mentions Nightsiders:

The judges awarded Honourable Mentions to Sue Isle for Nightsiders, Meg Mundell for Black Glass and Tansy Rayner Roberts for The Shattered ( Read more... )

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... )

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Originally published at Champagne and Socks. You can comment here or there.

If you haven’t yet donated to the World SF Travel Fund - to help send Charles Tan to World Fantasy Con and then other fans in years to come - now’s your chance!

We have teamed up to offer the next five people who donate $50 or more a signed copy of Marianne de Pierres’s ( Read more... )

After a somewhat traumatic ordeal with TNT, my printer sent me a second copy of the proof of Nightsiders through Australia Post and it arrived on Friday! Here's a sneak peek, we've tweaked something very so slightly from this version. The printed books should arrive in time for their release at the end of March.


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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... )

Twelve Planets

12 collections, 12 authors, 12 months
Twelfth Planet Press announces the first collection in the Twelve Planets series to be released in January, 2011.

Nightsiders

by Sue Isle
In a future world of extreme climate change, Western Australia's capital city, Perth, has been abandoned. Most of the state's citizens were evacuated to the East ( Read more... )