Who is Lisa Hannett?
Lisa L Hannett has had over 55 short stories appear in venues including Clarkesworld, Fantasy, Weird Tales, ChiZine, the Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror (2010, 2011 & 2012), and Imaginarium: Best Canadian Speculative Writing (2012 & 2013). She has won three Aurealis Awards, including Best Collection 2011 for her first book, Bluegrass Symphony, which was also nominated for a World Fantasy Award. Her first novel, Lament for the Afterlife, is being published by CZP in 2015.
Where can I read more about this fabulous author?
What music do they like?
Oooooh, it’s so hard to choose only one song! Music is such an important part of my writing process, it’s hard to narrow it down. (I don’t listen to music while writing, but find so much inspiration in songs — lyrical or instrumental — that I could probably connect at least one piece of music with each story I’ve written…)
So I’ve cheated, and have chosen a few songs.
Here’s a list of (some) favourites…
Here is a video of a song that I adore. That guitar!! It doesn’t matter what style or genre of story I’m writing, this song will be playing on my iPod:
This one is another all-time favourite:
And this one:
And this one:
Love this one, too, and the video is wonderful:
This one is a recent inspiration — the video is so utterly stupid, you basically have to shut your eyes and just listen to the song…
OK, I’ll stop there!
