author of contemporary gothic, dark fiction, horror and fairy tales
The Aurealis Awards were announced in a glittery -- and, at times, shoeless -- ceremony in North Sydney on Saturday night and I was absolutely thrilled that Madigan Mine won Best Horror Novel. So thrilled that the just-in-case list of names I'd been intermittently rehearsing all day flew out of my head and the first … Continue reading Aurealis Awards 2010
The prevailing theme of the discussions/debates/flamewars surrounding the 2011 Ditmars this past week has been that the awards process is broken and needs to be fixed. As I talked about yesterday, the productions and publications of one small press publisher (Twelfth Planet Press) accounted for 50% of the combined 2011 Ditmar/Tin Duck awards. For the … Continue reading Ditmar Awards: random notes and musings
This is the first of two posts I plan to write about the latest Ditmar Awards controversy which ran rampant in certain corners of the internet over the past couple of days. I'm not going to name names or list a series of links. If you don't already know what's been happening -- and you … Continue reading Ditmars Awards and Myth-Information
SwanCon36 was a wonderful convention and merriment was had by all. I was on a lot of panels and even managed to sit in the audience for quite a few that I wasn't involved with -- which doesn't always happen, depending on how busy I am catching up with people and how good the bar … Continue reading SwanCon, MegaPodcasts and Ditmar Awards
It's only a first step, but I've just found out that Madigan Mine has been included in the First Novel category on the preliminary ballot for the Bram Stoker Awards. This long list will be voted on by the membership of the HWA in order to winnow down the candidates to just four in each … Continue reading Bram Stoker Awards Preliminary Ballot
