Wendy Waring is host for June's Australian Speculative Fiction Carnival. There's three posts, which you can find here, here, and here.

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Found this a bit late, but SF Revu has a long interview with DM Cornish from March.

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After a hiatus since March, The Small Picture Podcast returns with two interviews of SF authors, Traci Harding and Jack Dann. Both are available for streaming or download.

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Locus Online has posted Greg Bear's review of Damian Broderick's Year Million from the June 2008 edition.

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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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