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.
Archive for January, 2010
Horn, Siren Beat, BoE and Hugos
Posted in News, Pimping/Promoting!, tagged biancotti, book of endings, horn, hugo, peter m ball, siren beart, tansy rayner roberts, twelfth planet press on January 31, 2010| Leave a Comment »
And over at BookGeeks
Posted in News, tagged bookgeeks, review, sister, sisterr, strange tales III, tartarus press on January 31, 2010| Leave a Comment »
A v nice review of Strange Tales III:
I will mention first the three stories which struck me as really outstanding. Nina Allan’s The Lammas Worm is an extraordinary piece told in an exceptionally captivating narrative style, revolving around old unwholesome myths and featuring a weird girl who joins a circus company, bringing about trouble and tragedy. Sanctuary Run by Daniel Mills, where a young man seeking refuge from a snow blizzard becomes the guest of a strange community, is dedicated to Robert Aickman and does have an Aickmanesque tone, disquieting in a puzzling way and totally fascinating, especially for the things left either unsaid or unexplained. I was also bewitched by Angela Slatter’s Sister, Sister, a vivid, powerful fantasy where a former princess is abandoned by her husband for her wicked, inhuman sister.
The rest lives here http://www.bookgeeks.co.uk/2010/01/29/mario%E2%80%99s-review-strange-tales-volume-iii-edited-by-rosalie-parker/
Mmmmmm
Posted in Random, tagged power of books on January 28, 2010| Leave a Comment »
ToC for ‘Sprawl’
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Twelfth Planet Press’ next anthology is Sprawl. ToC looks thusly:
Liz Argall – Seed Dreams (comic)
Peter Ball – One Saturday Night, With Angel
Deborah Biancotti – Never Going Home
Simon Brown – Sweep
Stephanie Campisi – How to Select a Durian at Footscray Market
Thoraiya Dyer – Yowie
Dirk Flinthart – Walker
L L Hannett – Weightless
Pete Kempshall – Signature Walk
Ben Peek – White Crocodile Jazz
Tansy Rayner Roberts – Relentless Adaptations
Barbara Robson – Neighbourhood Watch
Angela Slatter – Brisneyland by Night
Cat Sparks – All The Love in the World
Anna Tambour – Gnawer of the Moon Seeks Summit of Paradise
Kaaron Warren – Loss
Sean Williams – Parched (poem)
Forgive Me Whilst I Droooooooooooooollllllll
Posted in News, Random on January 28, 2010| 2 Comments »
Hours of Fun from Dave the IT Guy
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Sauce of Awesome
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Am Re-reading …
Posted in Random, tagged abarat, cabal, clive barker, nightbreed on January 26, 2010| 1 Comment »
Clive Barker’s Cabal – the original copy I had many years ago was ‘borrowed’ by an ex-boyfriend of my sister. She bought me a new copy last week :-).
She also got, coz she is an awesome sister, a copy of Abarat, which I’ve not read. So, when I finish with Cabal (which reminds me how full of awesome Barker once was), I shall devour Abarat. *happy*
Callout for Subs
Posted in News, Pimping/Promoting!, tagged fairytales, Faye Durston's Star, new fairy tales, submissions on January 26, 2010| Leave a Comment »
New Fairy Tales is accepting submissions for their May 2010 issue. The deadline is 15th April 2010.
Sub guidelines here http://www.newfairytales.co.uk/pages/submissions.html
T’is v pretty, as you can see by Faye Durston’s Star, above.
New Story at The Daily Cabal – The Frog Prince: The Bonus Middle Bit
Posted in fairy tales, Pimping/Promoting!, tagged the daily cabal, the frog prince on January 26, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Five days later and Tad showed no sign of getting bored or homesick for his pond. He left a mess in his wake, ate enormous amounts of food, snored like an earthquake, and kept blowing kisses at Felicity when her parents weren’t looking. The final straw came when she walked into the royal bathroom and found Tad swimming in her bathtub – backstroking to be exact.
Much to her dismay Felicity discovered that planning to get rid of Tad and actually getting rid of him were two very different things,. She’d sourced a stout sack and taken to carrying about a croquet mallet. Tad, alas, had a habit of always being around someone like her father, or mother, or the chief minister, or the master of the king’s pigeons …
Angela Slatter 
