The Mayne Press, publisher of Paul Haines' Aurealis Award shortlisted title, Slice of Life has a new website – http://www.themaynepress.com
TMP is publishing Slice of Life as a fundraising venture for the Paul Haines' cancer fund. Support a worthy cause and buy a copy of frighteningly paranoid tales.
Recent links of interest:
Shaun Tan interview @ The Star "Striking, surreal and unsettling" bit.ly/2NBHS
Jonathan Strahan & Jack Dann contribute to SF Signal Mind Meld on creating anthologies bit.ly/HyO8K & bit.ly/b1nbf
At Writer Unboxed blog, Sophie Masson gives her answer to a reader question on "Fairytale as a basis for fantasy" bit.ly/Do1N2
All in the Mind explores The Singularity with scientists and sf author Richard K Morgan bit.ly/gJEKN – mp3 & transcript available.
Michael Pryor was guest poster @ The Random Blog recently. His intro post is here: bit.ly/AzjYD and he continues posting on the subjects of Steampunk, series, history, and more.
Reminder: The Aurealis Awards close Saturday 31 October 2009. Find the nominated works here bit.ly/OaqxG
Reading the text: Joel Shepherd interview at Grinding to Valhalla bit.ly/3NIPbO
Here's the transcript bit.ly/fBweE and video bit.ly/OMOyY (scroll down) of Jennifer Byrne Presents (First Tuesday Book Club): Monsters and Bloodsuckers
And finally, I'm redesigning the blog. Here's a pic of what I've done so far bit.ly/15mKCa I'd appreciate any comments, either via Twitter or email: ax@aurealis.com.au. Thanks.
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Better late than never, I've uploaded the reviews from our July edition of aXp to LibraryThing. You can find them there or on the front page of our blog. Enjoy.
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Glena Larke's new book The Last Stormlord, the first in the Watergiver trilogy, is being released soon and Voyager Online has let us know that it's available to read online through the HarperCollins Browse Inside application. aXp's reviewer Crisetta MacLeod loved it, as shown in the quote featured in their blogpost. Check out her full review at LibraryThing or at our blog.
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We've started posting links of interest to our Twitter account
New SF TV – DEMONS Thursdays at 8.30pm, from August 27. Encores Fridays at 10am and Sundays at 6.30pm on @scifitv http://bit.ly/nQ82n
Q. Problem with Oz setting in getting a book published in the US? A. from Editorial Anonymous http://bit.ly/B5xf5
Dirk Strasser is in the "Author Spotlight" @fantasymagazine http://bit.ly/k2KTU
Trent Jamieson's "Story of the Three Book Deal" http://bit.ly/DYG0h @ ROR
Flashy new site >> the new Rangers Apprentice website http://www.rangersapprentice.com
Tracey O'Hara will be interviewed on Romance Radio on the 28th http://bit.ly/fUBCz Should be avail. for download soon after
CBCA Award Winners @abcarticulate: Shaun Tan among Children's Book Council winners http://bit.ly/45Oph
Kaaron Warren is one of the authors responding to the Blogging & Social Networking Mind Meld @sfsignal http://tinyurl.com/r9zroq
KJ Taylor's (author of The Dark Griffin) ABC Radio Interview is available http://bit.ly/49ZDM5
Chronos Awards Winners @ the Continuum Blog http://bit.ly/tLrj9
Continuum Reports at The Continuum Blog http://continuum5.blogspot.com
"an epic post-apocalyptic sci-fi love story" audio drama featured in the latest The Lifted Brow mag via @BlackOnline http://bit.ly/cT1AF
25 New and Notable International YA Books http://tinyurl.com/levwf2
Stephen M Irwin touring with The Big Book Club via @BlackOnline http://tinyurl.com/lqws44
Oz SF on the 2009 Inky's Longlist: Worldshaker by Richard Harland and Two Pearls of Wisdom by Alison Goodman http://bit.ly/15lIcE
More items from the ABC that might serve as inspiration for SF Writers; "Do you read me HAL? Robot wars, moral machines and silicon that cares" from All In The Mind. The transcript includes a link to "Robot Love" an "audio adventure" from The Night Air which includes tracks by Forest J Ackerman, The Buggles, and from South Park. See also the lecture by Rodney Brooks "Remaking Manufacturing With Robotics" available at ABC Fora.
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Found an interview with Isobelle Carmody from June at Fantasy Book Review and a much more recent one with Kim Falconer by Mystic Medusa.
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Margo Lanagan interviewed by Books I Done Read Blog
Drag Me to Hell director Sam Raimi talks to Triple J and The Movie Show (also the stars)
Q&A with Duncan Lay at Voyager Online
Kate Constable interviewed at Australian Women Online and at Reading Rocks Blog
Michael Pryor interview at Pizza's Book Discussion Blog
Keri Arthur at Deadline Dames
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Two recent items of interest from the ABC include The Physics of the Impossible (audio) in which Dr Michio Kaku discusses the science fiction or science fact of such things as invisibility cloaks and teleportation, and 2050: a hypothetical future, a long (82 mins) video of a panel speculating about the world of our future, held at the UTS.
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The Guardian has a long piece on Shaun Tan with some great quotes and insight from Shaun. Also included is a gallery of the story "Eric" from Tales from Outer Suburbia.
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