Today I am interviewed by Charles Tan over at Bibliophile Stalker and I reveal where the heck the name Twelfth Planet Press comes from.

I was also snapshot last night by kathrynlinge - here

In Ben Peek's snapshot here on Monday, he revealed an upcoming Twelfth Planet Press project - a Novella Double called Above/Below by Stephanie Campisi/Ben Peek. Together ( Read more... )

The final issue of Shiny - Issue 6 - is now available!

I’m very sad to farewell Shiny, but farewell it I must, as Issue 6 is to be our final issue. Thank you, reader, for coming along and sharing this ride with us. This final issue sends Shiny off with a bang with Dirk Flinthart’s moving and thought provoking story (with pirates! and princes!), “ ( Read more... )

The Locus Recommended Reading List is now up on their website.

This recommended reading list, published in Locus Magazine's February 2010 issue, is a consensus by Locus editors and reviewers ... with inputs from outside reviewers, other professionals, other lists, etc. Congratulations to the Twelfth Planet Press authors who made this year's list ( Read more... )

Until March 13, Twelfth Planet Press is offering free electronic copies of Horn by Peter M Ball and "Siren Beat" by Tansy Rayner Roberts and short stories from Deborah Biancotti's A Book of Endings to help you catch up on your Australian specfic reading.

Horn by Peter M Ball was shortlisted for two Aurealis Awards in 2009 and is eligible in the ( Read more... )

From Locus Online:

Jedediah Berry has been named the winner of the 2010 William L. Crawford Award for first novel The Manual of Detection. The Award, presented annually at The International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, is for a new fantasy writer whose first book appeared the previous year. This year's conference will be March 17-21, ( Read more... )

The BSFA awards are presented annually by the British Science Fiction Association, based on a vote of BSFA members and - in recent years - members of the British national science fiction convention (Eastercon). Nominations are now open for the BSFA's 2009 awards ( Read more... )

I was aware the review of A Book of Endings was coming but was reminded about it when I woke up Sunday morning to a bunch of sales in my inbox. The buzz has kept on coming all week with several new interests for reviews and interviews so I have been very very curious to read just what Lucy Sussex thought of the book. narrelle kindly offered to post me a ( Read more... )

A reminder for anyone who’s free this Saturday afternoon (and also, in the vicinity of Sydney), that A Book of Endings will be launching locally:

3pm Saturday 10 October
NG Art Gallery
Upstairs at 3 Little Queen St
Chippendale NSW 2008
(about 2 bus stops from Central Station or a 10-minute walk)

Launch MC: Margo LanaganChampagne & OJ provided, or ( Read more... )

One of the most gruelling ways to get reviewed is in the Last Short Story spreadsheet. I know for me as an editor and publisher, I kinda sneak peeks with bated breath - how will our latest work rate? And then I watch as the numbers slowly get filled in, reader by reader. It's pretty sobering to see your work rated that way. I would imagine it's ( Read more... )

If you missed out on the Melbourne launch of A Book of Endings by Deborah Biancotti, details of the Sydney launch, are here.


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