Discussing Australian authors, their writing and fandom.
What kind of books does Keith Stevenson write? Science fiction. Tell me more! Keith Stevenson is probably best known for being editor of Aurealis – Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine – from 2001 to 2004 and publisher with multi-award winning Australian independent press coeur de lion publishing from 2006…
What kind of books does Margo Lanagan write? Fantasy and YA. Tell me more! Margo Lanagan is an internationally acclaimed writer of novels and short stories. Her latest novel is Zeroes, the first book of the Zeroes trilogy (YA fantasy), a collaboration with Scott Westerfeld and Deborah Biancotti. Her novel…
What kind of books does Jack Dann write? Science fiction and anthologies. Tell me more! JACK DANN is a multiple award winning author who has written or edited over seventy books, including the groundbreaking novels Junction, Starhiker, The Man Who Melted, The Memory Cathedral – which is an international bestseller, the Civil War…
What kind of books does Ian Irvine write? Mostly epic fantasy, but also children’s fiction, and some SF (eco-thrillers). Tell me more! Ian Irvine, an Australian marine scientist, has also written 32 novels and an anthology of shorter stories. His novels include the Three Worlds fantasy sequence (The View from…
Graphologists claim your handwriting can reveal clues to your personality and that no two people have the same handwriting. Being an unconscious habit, we tend to weave our identities into the way we write, so by analysing size, slant and pressure graphologists can determine things like imagination, self-confidence, repression and…
For anyone who doesn’t know, the Ditmar Awards celebrate achievements by Australians in speculative fiction writing. Nominations for the awards are currently open and can be made by anyone who (a) has been to a recent speculative fiction convention / event OR (b) is otherwise active in the speculative fiction…
As many of you know, I recently co-wrote a book with nine(!) authors (“Into Tordon” by Z.F. Kingbolt), so am particularly fascinated by collaborative writing at the moment. ‘Alice Campion’ is the pseudonym of several authors writing as one: Jane Richards, Jenny Crocker, Jane St Vincent Welch and Denise Tart.…
