Because sometimes I like to be nice, I give you the delicious swag of short fiction that has been accumulating in my browser tabs over the past couple of months: “For Want of a Nail” by Mary Robinette Kowal which just won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story. “The Wolves of Brooklyn” by Catherynne [...]
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Her Words and Worlds (with Book Giveaway!)
The wonderful and always eloquent Stephanie Gunn has embarked upon an ambitious personal project she calls Her Words and Worlds, wherein she chooses a female author and endeavours not only to read her entire published bibliography — in chronological order — but to write a lengthy and considered review of the body of work at [...]
3 August 2011
Categories: Books & Reading, Writing & Publishing . Tags: Angela Slatter, interviews, Madigan Mine, Monsters Among Us, she said, short stories, Stephanie Gunn, thoughts about writing . Author: Kirstyn McDermott . Comments: Leave a Comment
More Scary Kisses now available for Kindle
More Scary Kisses, the paranormal romance anthology edited by Liz Gryzb and published by Ticonderoga is now available in a Kindle edition. For only US$4.99! It contains a short story of mine called “Frostbitten” — which is definitely more scary than kissy — among a stellar line up of new work by Australian authors, including [...]
17 July 2011
Categories: Writing & Publishing . Tags: Frostbitten, More Scary Kisses, short stories, Ticonderoga Publications . Author: Kirstyn McDermott . Comments: 1 Comment
Don’t Scare the Children?
Last week I finished a short story which proved very different from anything else I’ve done. It was written for a children’s anthology of ghosts stories with the target reader age range of 10-13 years. It was the first time I’ve ever written for such a young age group and so I spent quite a [...]
19 May 2011
Categories: Writing & Publishing . Tags: Lost and Found, short stories, thoughts about writing . Author: Kirstyn McDermott . Comments: Leave a Comment
Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2010
Ticonderoga Publications has just announced the contents for its inaugural volume of The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror. Edited by Liz Grzyb and Talie Helene, the anthology weighs in at a mighty 150,000 words and collects 33 of the best stories published last year — and I’m very pleased to report that my own [...]
19 April 2011
Categories: Books & Reading, Writing & Publishing . Tags: she said, short stories, Ticonderoga Publications, Year's Best Australian Fantasy and Horror . Author: Kirstyn McDermott . Comments: Leave a Comment
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Kirstyn McDermott is an Australian writer living in Melbourne. Mostly.
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