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After yesterday, I’ve been thinking about how many fantasy novels are truly standalone. Girlie Jones declared on Twitter that she doesn’t read fantasy because she’s not interested in waiting for volumes to be written. It’s a fair cop - if the concept of a journey through an ( Read more... )

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Paul Haines is offering his acclaimed novella Wives in free electronic copy for anyone who asks. This is an awesome, epic piece of Australian horror/post-apocalyptic science fiction from last year, and if you’d like to see some Australian content on the Hugo ballot, this would be a ( Read more... )

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Well, that was a bizarre evening! After a day of tidying in preparation for Raeli’s birthday party tomorrow (her first ‘proper’ one at home instead of at a kids centre, with games and everything) I settled down with a baby on my lap to follow the Aurealis Awards via Twitter. It ( Read more... )

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I’ve had a tab open to this post by Jim C Hines on Girly Books and gender stereotyping all week, pretty sure that I wanted to say something about it, but not sure what.

I understand his bafflement at male readers being hesitant to pick up his new books, the ones with girls on the ( Read more... )

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I was reading Locus Magazine this morning over my porridge and nag-the-child-into-getting-through-morning-chores ritual. There were many pleasant aspects of it, not least the fact that I have caught up enough with my ( Read more... )

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That’s right, I am rocking the minimum. Go, minimum!

New music added to writing playlist: the Glee soundtrack. Awesome writing music, I have to say. It’s so peppy. But then I’m the girl who likes to write to Lily Allen turned up Way Loud, so possibly my ( Read more... )

"...they would make a fortune." (Nancy Mitford to Evelyn Waugh, 12 December 1944 ( Read more... )

Controversy is, of course, a great way to sell a book.

Given that I utterly adore Margo Lanagan's brutal fairy tale novel Tender Morsels and believe that it's one of the most important fantasy novels of the last decade, I should be utterly delighted by this article in the ObserverAccording to the headline, parents are "alarmed over sex assault ( Read more... )

There's no way I can be unbiased about Tender Morsels, the much anticipated novel by Margo Lanagan - though I have to say I think the idea that anyone can be unbiased about books is a special kind of madness ( Read more... )