Tor.com are offering Tobsha Lerner's Soul for free download next week, if you sign up for their newsletter. They will also offer all previous free eBooks for download again the week after that.

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The Aurealis office is currently unable to process any pending submissions or new subscription orders due to major computer failure. New submissions and orders should be sent as usual, but it will take some time before computer systems and previous information is back online. Please accept our apologies for these difficulties.

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Sophie Masson blogs about book trailers and shares a few things she learned while making the trailer for her book The Case of the Diamond Shadow. She includes links to book trailers from Michael J Pryor, Isabelle Merlin, and Ian Irvine, as well as her own.

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On June 12 Margaret Throsby, from ABC Classic FM's "Mornings" program interviews and steps into the musical world of Shaun Tan, with music that he selected for the program. The podcast doesn't include the music, but the Real and Windows Media streams do.

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BookExpoCast, the official podcast of Book Expo America, has a short interview with Catherine Jinks about her book Genius Squad.

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Tor.com offers two new computer desktop wallpapers each week for free. This week includes the cover art for Isobelle Carmody's Ashling by Tristan Elwell.

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Sarah L'Estrange interviews novelist, scriptwriter and games writer Matt Costello for the Book Show during the recent Sydney Writer's Festival.

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Strange Horizons had a Greg Egan feature week for their June 2nd edition. Incandescence, Quarantine and Teranesia, and Axiomatic and Dark Integers are all reviewed.

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The release of Hal Spacejock Book 1 as a drm-free ebook has generated some attention around the blogosphere. Here's an interview with Simon Haynes from Jeri Smith-Ready's blog.

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During his recent visit to Australia The Book Show interviewed Neil Gaiman. Audio is available for streaming or download for a limited time, but there's a transcript of the entire interview as well.

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