Chronos Awards Ballot Announced
Looks like award season is well and truly upon us! The voting ballot for the Chronos Awards, presented for excellence in Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror in the state of Victoria, has just been...
View ArticleAustralian Shadows Award winners announced!
I awoke this morning to the wonderful news that my short story, “She Said” (from Scenes from the Second Storey), has won an Australian Shadows Award! I think this is one of the best stories I’ve...
View ArticleWin Books with Aussie Author Month!
Somehow I keep forgetting to post about this. To help celebrate Aussie Author Month during April, the Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (ASFFWA) is giving away a truckload of...
View ArticleAurealis Awards 2010
The Aurealis Awards were announced in a glittery — and, at times, shoeless — ceremony in North Sydney on Saturday night and I was absolutely thrilled that Madigan Mine won Best Horror Novel. So...
View ArticleGalactic Chats, Zombie Signings and Emerging Writers
While I was over in Perth at SwanCon, Alisa Krasnostein interviewed me for Galactic Chat, the sister podcast of Galactic Suburbia. The Chat podcast is an ongoing series of lengthy interviews with...
View ArticleContinuum, Quilts and Chronos Awards
I had a fantastic and satisfyingly exhausting time at Continuum 7 over the long weekend. The panels I saw were entertaining and engaging and Catherynne M. Valente was one of the most gracious and...
View ArticleMy ‘Meet the Writer’ Interview at Read Horror
It’s been quiet around here lately, mainly because I’ve been a) wrestling with a new computer, and b) wrestling with my novel. More of the former this past week, unfortunately! But I am getting the...
View ArticleHer Words and Worlds (with Book Giveaway!)
The wonderful and always eloquent Stephanie Gunn has embarked upon an ambitious personal project she calls Her Words and Worlds, wherein she chooses a female author and endeavours not only to read her...
View ArticleMadigan Mine goes Deutsche!
I’ve just seen the cover that will grace the German edition of Madigan Mine and I’m very, very pleased with it indeed. I love the look on the woman’s face . . . she definitely says Madigan Sargood to...
View ArticleA Thoughtful Review of Madigan Mine
I don’t generally acknowledge or point out a lot of reviews of my work, both because it is generally considered a tad gauche to Respond To Criticism — especially if the criticism is bad — and because I...
View ArticlePerfections and Madigan Mine go digital (redux)
It’s been a little while since ebooks of my novels Madigan Mine and Perfections have been available but the good folks at Twelfth Planet Press have now released them back into the wild. So if you...
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