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Snapshot 2012: Narrelle M Harris
Narrelle M Harris is a Melbourne-based writer. Her book, The Opposite of Life, is a vampire novel set in Melbourne. In March 2012, her short story collection, Showtime, became the fifth of the 12...
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Snapshot 2012: Deborah Biancotti
Deborah Biancotti writes & reads in Sydney. Her first collection, A BOOK OF ENDINGS, was shortlisted for the William L. Crawford Award for Best First Fantasy Book. Her first novella, “And the Dead...
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Snapshot 2012: Kirstyn McDermott
Kirstyn McDermott’s short fiction has been published in various journals, magazines and anthologies in Australia and overseas. Her debut novel, Madigan Mine, received an Aurealis Award for Best Horror...
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Twelfth Planet Press Takes On Embiggen Books
If you’re in Melbourne this weekend and not at the Continuum/Craftonomicon convention, you can still get in on some Twelfth Planet Press action! Hosted by Ian Mond of The Writer and the Critic Podcast,...
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Tansy’s Con Report 2: Cocktails, Cupcakes and a Trifle or two
Can’t believe Alex has already managed to write up the whole con! I’m still grouping the events by theme… And speaking of events, there were all manner of special ones at this convention. I was...
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Galactic Suburbia 61: Craftonomicon
In which we report live and punchy (not enough sleep to be sassy) from Day 2 of Continuum 8: Craftonomicon, Natcon 2012 in Melbourne Australia. Download it IF YOU DARE NEWS The Con so far: panels,...
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Friday Links Adds Frosting and Coconut
The awesome Terri started chronicling her crazy cupcake adventure from Continuum – she’s promised us a blog series about each Twelfth Planet Press book themed cupcake she made for the event, and starts...
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Let’s Talk About Livia Day
I’m feeling a bit bipolar at the moment, because I’ve spent the last day or two setting up a social media presence of sorts for my crime-writing alter-ego, Livia Day. Oh. Have we not talked about her...
View ArticleElsewhere on the Internet: Mind Meld, TPP & Verity!
Over at the MindMeld, I answer the question of ‘what books do people expect you to like but don’t?’ If nothing else, head over to hear my spirited rant about the sinister work of Beatrix Potter. The...
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New Cover for Livia Day’s “A Trifle Dead”
I’ll admit I was nervous when I heard there was ‘tweaking’ going on with the cover of my book, because I had just been showing it off to everyone I met at Genrecon and hearing so much positive feedback...
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New Book Day! A Trifle Dead
Properly this celebration belongs to the delightful Livia, who does not live on this blog, but I don’t care because NEW BOOK DAY IS FOR EVERYONE! Book booka book booka book, it’s so pretty and it’s all...
View ArticleThings To Be Excited About (Writing and Parenting Edition)
I missed out on the fun & professional inspiration of Genrecon this weekend, which would normally have been pretty depressing, but I got to hang out with my snuggly family and watch a bunch of...
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Last Chance for Kaleidoscope Pledges!
It’s down to the last few days of the Kaleidoscope Pozible campaign, for a book of contemporary YA fantasy (and a dash of science fiction) with diverse protagonists, edited by Alisa Krasnostein of...
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Cold White, Ink Black, Romanpunk
Some lovely announcements to do with my writing this week, from my two favourite publishers. Tehani Wessely at Fablecroft has put up freebie copies of two Ditmar Award nominated stories: “Cold White...
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Snapshot: Amanda Rainey
Amanda Rainey is a graphic designer from Perth who designs books for Twelfth Planet Press and FableCroft. When she’s not designing books she is either: working on a PhD looking at election campaigns,...
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Mother of Invention is LIVE!
Mother of Invention will feature diverse, challenging stories about gender as it relates to the creation of artificial intelligence and robotics. This ambitious anthology from award-winning Australian...
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We’re on Day 6 of our Kickstarter month and we have nearly half our funding! Not only that, but Kickstarter picked us out as one of their “Projects We Love.” Check out this post by one of our...
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Streeeeeetch
I can’t keep up with all the milestones we’ve been hitting! Powering on towards 20K and beyond, with the Mother of Invention Kickstarter. When we hit $18K we announced stretch goals, via this adorable...
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