by Jason Fischer | Aug 23, 2013 | Announcement, Appearances
Hey folks,
Some fun times ahead! Tomorrow I shall be at the Salisbury Writers Festival, appearing on a panel to talk about “Speculative Fiction Unleashed” with fellow ink-scribblers Sean Williams and Tony Shillitoe. Panel is at 12:50pm at the John Harvey Gallery (more details here: http://www.salisbury.sa.gov.au/Our_City/Arts_and_Culture/Salisbury_Writers_Festival/Writers_Forum)
Next Thursday night (29th August) from 9 pm, I shall be appearing on community radio station PBA-FM 89.7. Presenters Alexis and Pete have invited me as a guest of The Show. They’ll be running a zombie/literature themed program, and it will be my great pleasure to come along and talk all things zombie and writing related. More information on PBA-FM can be found via this link:
http://www.users.on.net/~pbafm2/
And The Show has its own Facebook and Twitter pages:
https://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/THE-SHOW-897-PBA-FM/115071388537800
https://twitter.com/TheShowPBAFM
by Jason Fischer | Aug 5, 2013 | Announcement
Remember the old Choose Your Own Adventure? Would you like to do one in real life? What if I told you we had some of the world’s best genre writers just waiting to pen an adventure in your city?
If you want to do a real life Adventure, written by world famous authors such as Isobelle Carmody or NY Times bestseller Sean Williams, then you MUST support this project!!
I’m lucky enough to be one of the authors connected to this project. Back when I was a wee tacker, I used to love poring through anything that had multiple choices, and had a great love for Choose Your Own Adventure, Fighting Fantasy etc etc.
These days, we’ve gone all high-tech on the concept. Think smart phones, QR readers, maps, social media, all the bells and whistles. Adelaide successfully ran a Real Life Choose Your Own Adventure during Writers Week, and hopefully it will soon be an option in many other cities.
There are some BRILLIANT writers who have put their hands up for this. It looks like seriously good fun, and I can’t wait to see what some of these other squirrely author minds come up with for their readers.
New world, exciting new times, and an 80s mode of storytelling meshes up with modern technology. What’s not to like? Click on the link below to tip a few dollars in the crowdfunding tin.
http://www.pozible.com/project/29325
by Jason Fischer | Jul 31, 2013 | Announcement
Be it by design or accident, the e-book purveyors known as Smashwords are now charging 1c/copy for all free titles downloaded via Apple.
I’ve regrettably had to put a price onto my short story “The House of Nameless” but here’s a coupon dealy that will let you still get it for free. Hope that gets around that little conundrum! Coupon is LT73J, let me know if you have any trouble.
“The House of Nameless” can still be downloaded here – https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/43525
by Jason Fischer | Jul 2, 2013 | Announcement
In “The House of Nameless”, a dinner at a minotaur’s house brings an unwelcome intruder. Raoul Mithras, god of both the old, One-Way-World and the surreal, chaotic world that replaced it, is forced to pursue and old foe across a surreal landscape to prevent the reawakening of the One-Way-World – if he is not destroyed first.
I was fortunate enough to write this story a few years ago, and “The House of Nameless” has brought me a lot of joy. Not only did I get to dip my toe into surrealist fantasy writing, I won the Writers of the Future contest and got to go to America on a Big Adventure. Now, just to prove that this is the story that keeps on giving, my brilliant friend Laura E. Goodin is now adapting Nameless into an opera libretto. A blues opera, no less, and colour me bloody excited on that front!
Laura is a dear friend, and can write like nobody’s business. She has a wonderful literary sensibility, and whenever she puts her words to something you can immediately tell that she’s just having a damn good time. Proving she is ever the renaissance woman, this isn’t the first time she’s converted a story into a stage production, and I can rest assured that Raoul, Nameless and friends are all in capable hands. She’s writing this project as part of the Clarion West Write-A-Thon, and can be sponsored at the following page:
http://www.clarionwest.org/writeathon/lauraegoodin
Some more information about the project can be found on this press release:
http://www.prweb.com/releases/LRonHubbard/Writersofthefuture/prweb10879928.htm
And for those of you who want to read the original short story of “The House of Nameless” – hey, lookie here!
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/43525
by Jason Fischer | Jun 14, 2013 | Announcement
Coming up soon is the Salisbury Writers Festival. They always put on a great show with lots of contests, seminars, and workshops. Some years back I won their 3 Day Novel Race, which was great fun to enter. This year it’s my great pleasure to be appearing on the following panel during their Writers Forum day:
12:50pm PANEL OF WRITERS: Speculative Fiction Unleashed
John Harvey Gallery
Three award winning speculative fiction writers will share stories about how their careers developed, the successes and the difficulties, dealing with publishers, finding markets, the opportunities, the advantages and the challenges of writing speculative fiction in South Australia.
- Sean Williams
- Tony Shillitoe
- Jason Fischer
More details on the following link. There’s a tonne of great stuff happening on the day, so why not come along? They’ve done a great job with this program lineup, so you’ll definitely get value from the day.
http://www.salisbury.sa.gov.au/Our_City/Arts_and_Culture/Salisbury_Writers_Festival/Writers_Forum
by Jason Fischer | Jun 9, 2013 | Announcement, Publication
Hey folks!
Way back in 2004, I was lucky enough to have my first short story published by Antipodean SF. I’ve always been grateful to Ion Newcombe and AntiSF for that opportunity, and for the crazy ride that has followed since. So it’s an absolute pleasure to see one of my new collaborations grace its electronic pages. I’ve teamed up with the talented Martin Livings (also an AntiSF alumni) and the result was “Art, Ink.”
Editor Ion Newcombe says “One of the best things about having edited AntiSF for such a long time is seeing authors travel on to bigger and better things. This month, two regular contributors (especially in times past) have collaborated to create a special story exclusively for publication at AntiSF — and they have done this just “for the love” of AntiSF.
Thanks Jason and Martin. Each of you has amassed an impressive list of publication credits, and I really appreciate you coming back home to make such a fine contribution to this ongoing project that is AntipodeanSF.”
You can read the story via this website: http://www.antisf.com.au/
