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Best errata ever. I salute you, oh nit-picking nerds.
The comments are where the gold is, almost 300 now, evenly mixed between "who gives a shit" and "you're still wrong, it was X spaceship". (lifted from...
Latest additions to the brag shelf
These two books arrived in the post within a week or so of each other, and are welcome additions to my brag shelf at home. Both of these are reprint anthologies, with the added cool bonus that in both books, I get to share a TOC with fellow Writers of the Future...
World Fantasy Awards wootage
Huge congrats go to Aussies Jonathan Strahan and Margo Lanagan for their respective World Fantasy Awards. http://www.locusmag.com/News/2010/10/world-fantasy-awards-winners/ [bows in homage] Unconnected to this good news, I present to you a Tea Party Skeletor.
The Internet is a Rock, Lift at Your Peril
For the first time I played around with the statistics tools for this website, just to see what's been going on there. It's interesting to see how many folks are dropping by to read about my various adventures in My Writery Life, even if many of them are spam...
argh!
On professionalism, goings on, and some quick absurdity
Professionalism I've kinda neglected the blogging a bit lately - call it a spurt of professionalism, in that I only wanted to blog Things Of Note and not just pollute my new site with rubbish jokes, pictures of stupid stuff I found funny, and all of the crimes against...
Jason Paulos book signing in Sydney
Just a quick post to help promote Jason Paulos, all-round legend and pulp comic artist extraordinaire. This weekend he is part of a comic signing at Kings Comics, Sydney, so if that's your neck of the woods it's probably worth checking out. This is the gentleman...
Speaking of a nameless house…
The anthology for WOTF XXVI has just been reviewed over at the Library Journal, and reviewer David Rapp says: "These new stories by talented as-yet-unknowns are uniformly good; some show impressive talent, such as Adam Colston's "Not in the Flesh," an interesting take...
Some belated WOTF congrats!
Just found out that the winners of the 2nd quarter of the 2010 Writers of the Future have been announced. And 2 out of 3 of the winners are Aussies! WOOHOO! THE 2nd QUARTER WINNERS ARE 1st Place -- Patty Jansen of New South Wales, Australia 2nd Place -- Ben Mann of...
Went Bush
Just spent some time at Kangaroo Island, and it was amazing. So beautiful, and so many cool things to do. Saw oodles of native animals (both roadkill and still hopping), drove over 1000km on several scary dirt roads, looked at some Remarkable Rocks, ate honey from...
A retrospective account of Writers of the Future – Part 3
(for those of you who haven't read these yet, the first two instalments of my WOTF retrospective can be found here http://jasonfischer.com.au/?p=136 and here http://jasonfischer.com.au/?p=155) Immediately after the awards ceremony, we writers and illustrators made our...
Story Sale
Just sold my story "Eating Gnashdal" to Keith Stevenson's upcoming anthology Anywhere But Earth. Nice! Some more info about the book here: http://keithstevenson.com/CDLblog/submissions/ And a list here of the other authors who so far have been accepted for this...