Apr 29

Cover images and TOCs, oh my!

How good is this? Two fantastic cover images and two amazing TOCs for two anthologies… and I’m in ’em!

The cover image for Epilogue, from FableCroft has just been revealed. Gaze on it in awe!

Epilogue

“A memory trapped in light” by Joanne Anderton

“Time and tide” by Lyn Battersby

“Fireflies” by Steve Cameron

“Sleeping Beauty” by Thoraiya Dyer

“The Fletcher Test” by Dirk Flinthart

“Ghosts” by Stephanie Gunn

“Sleepers” by Kaia Landelius

“Solitary” by Dave Luckett

“Cold comfort” by David McDonald

“The Mornington Ride” by Jason Nahrung

“What books survive” by Tansy Rayner Roberts

“The last good town” by Elizabeth Tan

Now, maintain that awe for…

Light Touch Paper, Stand Clear

Joanne Anderton,  ‘The Bone Chime Song’

Adam Browne,  ‘The D____d’

Sue Bursztynski,  ‘Five Ways to Start a War’

Brenda Cooper,  ‘Between Lines’

Katherine Cummings,  ‘The Travelling Salesman and the Farmer’s Daughter’

Thoraiya Dyer,  ‘Faet’s Fire’

Kathleen Jennings,  ‘Kindling’

Dave Luckett,  ‘History: Theory and Practice’

Ian McHugh,  ‘The Godbreaker and Unggubudh the Mountain’

Sean McMullen,  ‘Hard Cases’

Ripley Patton,  ‘Mary Had a Unicorn’

Rob Porteous,  ‘The Subjunctive Case’

Anna Tambour,  ‘Murder at the Tip’

Both anthologies have really different but interesting concepts behind them. Both are just full of amazing writers. I’m honoured to share these TOCs with them.

Altogether pretty nifty, wouldn’t you say!

Apr 25

Retold fairy tales

Once upon a time, stories ended happily ever after. Or did they?

Like your fairy tales a little bit… different? My friend Rabia has released a collection of retold fairy tales on the Kindle and Nook. Shattered: broken fairy tales is a great collection — I know this because I’ve been lucky enough to read it already.

Beta reader privileges rock!

It also has a beautiful cover image, designed by Robin Gale Cornett.

Anyway, do go and check it out!

 

Apr 23

Love for Dead Red Heart

There’s lots of love going around for Ticonderoga’s Dead Red Heart.

Sixteen of the stories were included on Ellen Datlow’s Honorable Mention List for the Best of Horror 2011. And I’m thrilled that ‘The Sea at Night’ was one of them!

The anthology also received an epic review from Black Static Magazine, and every single story gets a mention!

“In ‘The Sea at Night’ by Joanne Anderton bum Joe intrigues the vampire Gideon, with an act prompted by curiosity seen as kindness and leading to a form of friendship, the underlying emotion that of loneliness, both human and vampire …  an overall excellent collection, one in which nearly all of the stories are unusual and offer different slants on the idea of the vampire, while retaining an essentially Australian feel.”

So congrats to Ticonderoga and everyone in this great anthology!

Apr 02

World building and brain storming

I’m building a new world at the moment and playing with exciting, impossible technologies. Here’s a hint 🙂

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Mar 26

Adventures in short story land

Things are afoot in short story land!

I’m very excited to announce that my story, ‘A Memory Trapped in Light’ will be joining some truly amazing company in Epilogue, an anthology from Fablecroft Press (wow, check out that TOC!). And this ain’t just any short story, let me tell you. ‘A Memory Trapped in Light’ is a post-apocalyptic story set in the Debris universe. The world and the characters might not look all that familiar… well, not yet. But there are some hints and spoilers hidden in this story. Important characters that have yet to raise their game-changing heads. Also, giant undead machine spider things. All good, right?

I’ve also had another story, called ‘The Bone Chime Song’, accepted into a Peggy Bright Books anthology called Light Touch Paper, Stand Clear. Isn’t that just the coolest name for an anthology? The TOC has yet to be announced, but I’ve seen a few folks talking about this around the interwebs, and I think this is going to be a very exciting anthology. I’m thrilled to be involved!

And… another one! My dark flash fiction piece, ‘Dredging’ will appear in 100 Lightnings from Paroxysm Press. This story was inspired by the old bloke who wades through the not-so-pleasant ponds on our local golf course, searching for stray golfballs. You’ll be surprised to hear they aren’t golfballs anymore in the story…

Last, but not least (phew, right!) a rather nice review of ‘Tied To the Waste’ recently published in Tales of the Talisman:

“In a future, broken world, where humanity has been reduced to wind, sand, and scrap, the reader finds a little magic. Tied to the Waste by Joanne Anderton was beautiful with hope.”

What a nice thing to say.