Tag: ditmars

Feb 24

Awards! Stories! Huzzah!

So I’m a little bit behind with this, but am super excited to have a couple of stories up for awards this year! ‘2B’, from Insert Title Here has been shortlisted for a Ditmar and an Aurealis Award! And ‘Bullets’ from In Sunshine Bright and Darkness Deep has been shortlisted for an Aurealis Award too! If …

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May 01

Ditmars (and freebies!)

It’s Ditmar time again, and I’m SO excited that Mah Song and The Bone Chime Song and Other Stories have been shortlisted! Mah Song has been shortlisted for best short story (yay!) and The Bone Chime Song and Other Stories has been shortlisted for best collected work (ALL the yays!!). Fablecroft have made some samplers and …

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Mar 27

Ditmar om-noms!

So the ballot for the Ditmars have just been announced. It looks like a great list, but scariest of all is:   Best Novel ———————————————————————— * Sea Hearts, Margo Lanagan (Allen & Unwin) * Bitter Greens, Kate Forsyth (Random House Australia) * Suited (The Veiled Worlds 2), Jo Anderton (Angry Robot) * Salvage, Jason Nahrung …

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Feb 28

Because awesome stories are awesome

I’m doing my fannish duty. I’m making a list of works from 2012 that I enjoyed reading, and nominating them for the Ditmar awards. Why? Because I can. And because awesome stories are awesome, and they deserve it. And then, when there’s a shortlist, I’m gonna vote! Same reason. So if you can nominate and …

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Jun 18

Continuum and Octopuses and Costumes, Oh My!

or ‘what I’ve been doing for the past two weeks’ I know this is way late, but I have an excuse! Convention-flu. Let me take you back in time, before too much wine, not enough sleep, and an over-reliance on take away food turned me into the croaky, slouching creature you see before you. Back …

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