by Jason Fischer | Sep 21, 2012 | Uncategorized
I just can’t help myself 🙂
It’s all official like, I am a mentor in the Australian Horror Writers Association 2012 mentor program. And I have two mentees that I’d like to introduce to y’all.
Given into my tender care are the following writers: Stacey Larner and David McDonald. From what I’ve seen of their writing, these folks both have a lot of promise. They’re hard-working, keen as beans, and hopefully some big things await my writer-kids. Now it’s up to me to pass on what knowledge I’ve gleaned over the years, help them get some work polished to within an inch of its life, and generally hang around, dropping wisdom like Obi-Wan Kinobi (I think).
Say hi folks, and make my Padawans feel welcome 🙂
by Jason Fischer | Sep 18, 2012 | Pimping, Publication
The table of contents has just gone live for issue #8 of Midnight Echo, which includes my postapocalyptic offering “Pigroot Flat”. Just…just look at that list of authors! MY GOD. I’m so excited. Joe R Lansdale! Jack Ketchum! Various Aussies! 🙂 Plus of swag of non-fiction goodies and interviews. Nicely done Midnight Echo.
The Table of Contents:
Literature
A Visit With Friends by Joe R Lansdale
The Girl from the Borderlands by Felicity Dowker
Blissful Ignorance by Matthew Wedge
Hello Kitty by Jason Nahrung
Jar Baby by Michelle Jager (with artwork by Glenn Chadbourne)
The Boy With the Hole in his Heart by Caysey Sloan
They Don’t Know That We Know What They Know by Andrew J McKeirnan
Squirrely Shirley by Jack Ketchum and Lucky McKee (with artwork by David Schembri)
Always A Price by Joanne Anderton (AHWA Short Story winner 2012)
Blood Lillies by Shauna O’Meara (AHWA Flash Fiction winner 2012)
Tooth by Kathryn Hore
Pigroot Flat by Jason Fischer
Poetry
Gallows & Blooms by Andrew Alford
Insatiable by Stuart Olver
Coming Home by Marge Simon and Sandy DeLuca
Comic
Allure of the Ancients; The Key to His Kingdom – story by Mark Farrugia, illustrations by Greg Chapman
Special Features
In the Art, The Dark: Glen Chadbourne
Facts, fiction and fevers by Gary Kemble (non-fiction)
An Interview with Jack Ketchum
An Interview with Lee Battersby
Regular Features
A Word from the AHWA President –Â Geoff Brown
Tartarus –Â Danny Lovecraft (poetry column)
Pix and Panels – Mark Farrugia (comic column)
Black Roads, Dark Highways #3 – Andrew McKiernan (column)*
Sinister Reads (all the latest releases from AHWA members)
More info here, including pre-orders: http://midnightechomagazine.com/
by Jason Fischer | Sep 3, 2012 | Pimping
Shipments of the Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2011 have just gone out to pre-order customers, and soon another gorgeous tome shall grace my bragshelf. My killer kangaroo story “Hunting Rufus” can be found therein, but why stop there? If it’s anything like last year’s volume, you will get:
- more stories than you can poke a stick at. This year, it’s 32 stories from the brains of top-notch Aussie genre writers.
- a great introductory essay giving an overview of Australian writing for the year – in my opinion this was worth the price of entry for the last volume.
- A wider recommended reading list than just the stories in the book…this will help the completists amongst you to track down new quality reading material.
- And a gorgeous cover apparently haunted by the still alive and kicking Kirstyn McDermott. Yeah, it’s just a passing resemblance. Still, the poor lady is going to hear about this for aaaages 🙂
So, what are you waiting for? Go and order you some delightful fiction via the links below. And as the title suggest, it’s only the best stuff, so there’s no filler here.
http://www.indiebooksonline.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=133
(both volumes of the YB and a 10% discount)
http://www.indiebooksonline.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=21&products_id=114
Year’s Best in paperback
http://www.indiebooksonline.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=115
Hardcover
