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2009, a personal review
I was just asked on another forum to outline 2009's acheivements, so I'll post them here too:
** A number of short stories published:
"The Dumbshow" - Masques Anthology, CSFG (ed Gillian Polack and Scott Hopkins) (May 2009) (ISBN 978-0-9775192-1-7)
"The Haunting that Jack Built" - Aurealis #42 (ed. Stuart Mayne, Chimaera Publications), (May 2009 ( Read more... ) -
Total Climate Change
Every time the Copenhagen summit is mentioned in the news, my two boys have taken to shouting out 'Copenhagen! Give these people air' in the same way Arnie does 'Cohagen!' in Total Recall. Very funny. -
The Mayne Press - new website and online orders
The new website for The Mayne Press, publisher of Paul Haines' "Slice of Life" collection is now online at http://www.themaynepress.com/Paul's collection, which is receiving Stoker Award recommendations and is also nominated for a couple of Aurealis Awards is available there for direct purchase (payment through PayPal). 100% of the cover price goes ( Read more... ) -
It’s a Stoker kind of thing!
Just a reminder for you all to check out the excellent posts made over at Sinister Reads concerning the Australian assault on the upcoming Bram Stoker Award recommendations.
Here is a full list of the posts:
Anthology/Collection Recommendations, including Amanda Pillar & Jennifer Brozek for Grants Pass, and Paul Haines ~ Slice of Life
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Aurealis Awards shortlist
The list of finalists for the 2009 Aurealis Awards has been announced over at http://www.aurealisawards.com/finalists_winners.htm
Very happy to see my short story "The Message" (from Midnight Echo #2) made the grade for Horror Short Story. There's some awesomely stiff competition there, but I'll keep my fingers crossed. Either way, a nomination is ( Read more... ) -
ASif Shards review
ASif! have just posted Martin Livings' review of Shards: Short Sharp Tales, and it is another review both Shane and I can be proud of. Thanks Martin!
"It's handsome, slick, professional... hell, it's kind of sexy, to be perfectly frank. Together, Shane Jiraiya Cummings, Andrew McKiernan and Brimstone Press have collaborated to create a superior ( Read more... ) -
New illustrations
I've just posted slew of new illustrations to my website (http://www.andrewmckiernan.com).
One is the illustration for Nathan Burrage's short story "Fractured Forever" in the soon-to-be-released issue #43 of Aurealis magazine. The rest are from P'rea Press's forthcoming collection of Richard Tierney's Lovecraftian poetry "Savage MenaceClick on any ( Read more... ) -
Savage Menace - Work in progress
Just thought I'd post a quick 'Work in Progress' image of the illustration I'm doing today. It is one for Richard Tierney's forthcoming poetry collection 'SAVAGE MENACE' . This is the illustration for the title piece of the collection. Still a ways to go yet, and I should be finished tonight or early tomorrow.
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Reviewey Goodness
Despite recent blog advice from gillpolack, a few reviews of my work have appeared over the past week or so and I'm going to post notice of them here :)
First up, felicitydowker has reviewed "SHARDS: Short Sharp Tales" over at Specusphere.
"The overall experience of Shards is that of a dizzying, vivid, frightening rollercoaster ride, plunging the reader repeatedly into ( Read more... ) -
Shards Winner
Forgive me all for my absence from the interwebs Monday and Tuesday but I wasn't feeling the best. Just worn out, I think, with a few weeks of late nights and bad sleep finally taking its toll. Spent most of my time in bed, or laid-back in the recliner, reading Stephen King's "Under the Dome". About half-way through so far, and it is damn good ( Read more... )
