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

And just LOOK at that cover. Gorgeous!

(from http://ticonderogapublications.com/) 

Ticonderoga Publications are delighted to announce the line-up of the second volume of The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror.

Liz Grzyb and Talie Helene have compiled 32 fantastic stories and poems first published in 2011, from New Zealand’s and Australia’s finest writers.

The contents are:

• Peter M Ball “Briar Day” (Moonlight Tuber)
• Lee Battersby “Europe After The Rain” (After the Rain, Fablecroft Press)
• Deborah Biancotti “Bad Power” (Bad Power, Twelfth Planet Press)
• Jenny Blackford “The Head in the Goatskin Bag” (Kaleidotrope)
• Simon Brown “Thin Air” (Dead Red Heart, Ticonderoga Publications)
• David Conyers and David Kernot “Winds Of Nzambi” (Midnight Echo #6, AHWA)
• Stephen Dedman “More Matter, Less Art” (Midnight Echo #6, AHWA)
• Sara Douglass & Angela Slatter “The Hall of Lost Footsteps” (The Hall of Lost Footsteps, Ticonderoga Publications)
• Felicity Dowker “Berries & Incense” (More Scary Kisses, Ticonderoga Publications)
• Terry Dowling “Dark Me, Night You” (Midnight Echo #5, AHWA)
• Jason Fischer “Hunting Rufus” (Midnight Echo #5, AHWA)
• Christopher Green “Letters Of Love From The Once And Newly Dead” (Midnight Echo #5, AHWA)
• Paul Haines “The Past Is A Bridge Best Left Burnt” (The Last Days of Kali Yuga, Brimstone Press)
• Lisa L Hannett “Forever, Miss Tapekwa County” (Bluegrass Symphony, Ticonderoga Publications)
• Richard Harland “At The Top Of The Stairs” (Shadows and Tall Trees #2, Undertow Publications)
• John Harwood “Face To Face” (Ghosts by Gaslight, HarperCollins)
• Pete Kempshall “Someone Else To Play With” (Beauty Has Her Way, Dark Quest Books)
• Jo Langdon “Heaven” (After the Rain, Fablecroft Press)
• Maxine McArthur “The Soul of the Machine” (Winds of Change, CSFG)
• Ian McHugh “The Wishwriter’s Wife” (Daily Science Fiction)
• Andrew J McKiernan “Love Death” (Aurealis #45, Chimaera Publications)
• Kirstyn McDermott “Frostbitten” (More Scary Kisses, Ticonderoga Publications)
• Margaret Mahy “Wolf Night” (The Wilful Eye – Tales From the Tower #1, Allen & Unwin)
• Anne Mok “Interview with the Jiangshi” (Dead Red Heart, Ticonderoga Publications)
• Jason Nahrung “Wraiths” (Winds of Change, CSFG)
• Anthony Panegyres “Reading Coffee” (Overland, OL Society)
• Tansy Rayner Roberts “The Patrician” (Love and Romanpunk, Twelfth Planet Press)
• Angela Rega “Love In the Atacama or the Poetry of Fleas” (Crossed Genres, CGP)
• Angela Slatter “The Coffin-Maker’s Daughter” (A Book of Horrors, Jo Fletcher Books)
• Lucy Sussex “Thief of Lives” (Thief of Lies, Twelfth Planet Press)
• Kyla Ward “The Kite” (The Land of Bad Dreams, P’rea Press)
• Kaaron Warren “All You Can Do Is Breathe” (Blood and Other Cravings, Tor)

In addition to the above incredible tales, the volume will include a review of 2011 and a list of recommended stories.

The editors will shortly begin reading for the third volume of The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror.

The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2011 is scheduled for publication in July 2012 and can be pre-ordered at indiebooksonline.com. The anthology will be available in hardcover, ebook and trade editions.