Nov 20 2011
Am reading from this excellent anthology from Coeur de Lion publishing. I picked up my e-copy on Amazon, but you can also find it on Smashwords and on the CDL website. I’ve read two stories so far, ‘Beautiful’ by Cat Sparks and ‘Hatchway’, Simon Petrie.
Sep 26 2011
Read Me is the 2011 University of Sydney student anthology and it launches in late October. Submissions for 2012 are open soon.
Jul 16 2011
Launched in the heart of Sydney’s winter, Joyce Morgan and Conrad Walter’s terrific travel-cum-adventure-cum-detective-story is a great read, all the more because it is set in that fabled land of dunes, sandstorms and oriental mystery that is Central Asia, with its Gobi and Taklamakan deserts. When I read this book …
Jun 03 2011
Reading from ‘Firing Squad’ at the Gleebooks launch of The Life You Chose — And That Chose You.
Apr 22 2011
Short story ‘The Caretaker’ is included in the line-up for the forthcoming science fiction anthology, Anywhere But Earth, from coeur de lion. Due in late 2011 the collection features “28 original stories of humanity’s adventures out there, anywhere but Earth.”
Apr 20 2011
Story ‘Firing Squad’ is in this year’s UTS Anthology, The Life You Chose: And That Chose You.
Feb 15 2011
Picked up Richard Yates’ Eleven Kinds of Loneliness (Kindle $9-ish, bargain) because I am in a short story kind of phase at the moment.
Feb 01 2011
Non-fiction-wise, I’m mainly reading Bloodlands (Timothy Snyder), a monumental work examining the tragedy of central Europe (Poland, Ukraine, Belarus + Baltics) and the early 20th C slaughter carried out there by both Stalin and Hitler. Each had ambitions for the territories that did not include the inhabitants: Stalin wanted collectivisation and food for Russia, Hitler wanted agrarian lands for his expanding German empire, as well as a killing ground for his ethnic exterminations. As a result millions were murdered by both regimes.
Dec 23 2010
What a great idea, a novellanthology, a collection of longer stories, very different from the mix-and-match bitsyness of the traditional short story anthology. But it has taken me embarrassingly long to settle down to read even the first in this collection of six speculative fiction novellas, X6, edited by Keith Stevenson and published by coeur de lion. And what a rewarding (not to mention award-winning) story Margo Lanagan’s ‘Sea-Hearts’ is …
Dec 02 2010
Okay, so it’s big, very big. Freedom is a big book. Big expectations, big thematically, big in scope, big in time frame. But it’s small too. Small in terms of the minutiae of characters and lives, details and motivations.
Sometimes that minutiae gets too much and, like The Slap …