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09/09/2010 Post WorldCon 2010

Awards

I was lucky enough to pick up the following awards over the last week or two at WorldCon (AussieCon 4) and Au Contraire (NZ)

2010 Ditmar Best Collection (Slice of Life)
2010 Ditmar Best Novella (Wives)
2010 Sir Julius Vogel Best Novella (Wives)

I found out I was only 5 votes off Wives being nominated for the Hugo Best Novella (the most presitigious of the awards). I reckon I would have had a good chance of taking home the rocket if I had made the list, what with the home crowd and all. I can only blame my apathetic friends. (You know I know who you are...).

Thanks to everyone who voted/read/bought my work to help make those awards happen. I am very very happy! Even if I don't have that rocket (Charles Stross, I'm looking at you...)

Stories

Several anthologies and magazines were launched at WorldCon and Au Contraire. I have these new babies on the market:

Her Collection Of Intimacy - Macabre (Brimstone Press)
I've Seen The Man - Scenes From The Second Storey (Morrigan Press)
Her Gallent Needs - Sprawl (Twelfth Planet Press)
High Tide At Hot Water Beach - A Foreign Country (Random Static)
A Tale Of The Interferers: Hunger For Forbidden Flesh - Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #46

I should also note that a podcast of Her Collection Of Intimacy is over here at Pseudopod.

Collections

Brimstone Press and myself are commencing work on the final edits of The Last Days of Kali Yuga. It was to originally include "The Devil In Mr Pussy" (also in Slice of Life) but will now include Wives in its place.

Agents

Nup. Still don't have one. Didn't even find one to talk to at WorldCon. I'm sitting by the phone.

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02/07/2010 A Foreign Country

I am pleased to announce that A Foreign Country: New Zealand Speculative Fiction is now available for pre-order from Random Static.

It includes my short story "High Tide At Hot Water Beach", a story heavily influenced by my recent experiences involving living/dying with cancer. It reduced my family to tears (as well as a couple of my writing inner circle) and I then forbid my wife to read it. For those familiar with my work over the last five or so years, this is not what you will be expecting.

It's also my first time in print in my homeland.

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