by Jason Fischer | Dec 24, 2010 | Publication, Writing
As mentioned previously, I wrote a new zombie story for Chuck McKenzie’s zombietastic Necroscope blog, called “Goodnights to Heaven”. The goal was to come up with a christmas-themed tale of the undead, the result of which can be read at this link:
http://zombiefictionreview.blogspot.com/2010/12/fiction-goodnights-to-heaven.html
May you all have a relaxing Christmas, and it is my sincerest wish that your barricades hold off the corpse hordes long enough for you to enjoy a pudding and a brandy 🙂
by Jason Fischer | Dec 15, 2010 | Publication
Heya folks,
I made a promise a while back that a couple of stocking stuffers were heading your way, courtesy of my good self. One of these fiction-related gifts is going live on Christmas Eve, but here’s an early pressie for those who’ve been good (or bad, or aggressively neutral). Over at the Terra Incognita Speculative Fiction podcast, the annual Christmas special has been released. This year’s offering contains my reading of the infamous “Undead Camels Ate Their Flesh”, my first pro-sale from Jack Dann’s Dreaming Again anthology. Even cooler, I share this aural offering with good friend and Clarion South tutor Lee Battersby, who reads “In From The Snow”, his horror-licious tale from the same collection. It’s a damn good tale, was a well-deserved Aurealis finalist, and blends with my tale of dromedary death like PB&J.
Prep your I-pods, and prepare for a pincer movement to the brain. It’s story-time.
http://www.tisf.com.au/ (or via I-Tunes)
(Never have I gotten more mileage from a picture…courtesy of Jess Irwin)
by Jason Fischer | Dec 12, 2010 | Publication
Today marks the official launch of “An Eclectic Slice of Life”, a new anthology which is the brain-child of Eclecticism E-Zine editor Craig Bezant. I’m pleased to say that I have two stories in this book, “Houndkin” (reprinted from the e-zine), and new story “The Ward of Hours”, which is written in the same setting as my Writers of the Future winning story “The House of Nameless”. I share space in this book with authors such as Simon Petrie, Alice Godwin, and award-winning British horror writer Joseph D’Lacey. Given the diasporic locations of the book’s contributors, Dark Prints Press have decided to hold an online book launch, with all sorts of fun stuff popping up during the launch. I’ll let them explain it:
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“Sunday marks the release date for Dark Prints Press’s first publication, the anthology ‘An Eclectic Slice of Life’. To mark the special occasion, we are hosting an online launch party. Since the fourteen contributors are scattered across the globe, this is the best way to get them together. You can read excerpts from each story in the anthology, and there will be fun links to many stories (such as crazy websites, videos, and flash games).
The online launch will be via the Dark Prints Press Facebook page, from 3-5pm this Sunday (12/12/2010), Perth, Western Australia time. That’s GMT+0800, so if you are in the eastern states of Australia, it will be ~6pm (daylight savings), NZ ~8pm, UK ~7am, US 11pm (Sat – LA) to 2am (NY). The Dark Prints Press Facebook page is here: http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Dark-Prints-Press/162390353801760
If you don’t have access to Facebook, you can join in at this news blog, The Realm of Dark Prints Press: http://darkprintspress.blogspot.com You shouldn’t need a blogger account to comment here, and I will try to respond to comments as often as possible. All posts will cross between the two sites.
Remember, this only goes for 2 hours, but you are welcome to visit later and drop a comment. Hurray, the anthology will finally be released!
**** AS A SPECIAL THANKS FOR DROPPING BY – FOR THE LAUNCH DAY ONLY, IF YOU ORDER YOUR COPY OF THE ANTHOLOGY, YOU WILL RECEIVE 30% OFF THE RRP; AND THEN FOR THE REST OF DECEMBER, THERE WILL BE 20% OFF. SWEET! ****”
by Jason Fischer | Nov 2, 2010 | Publication
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 winner Ian McHugh, as well as many other awesome folks. Have already devoured most of the Year’s Best and it’s a solid collection of stories, including Paul Haine’s amazing dystopia “Wives”.
Year’s Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy Vol 5 contains “for want of a jesusman” (from Aurealis #42)
Award Winning Australian Writing 2010 contains “Busking” (from Midnight Echo #3)
by Jason Fischer | Sep 27, 2010 | Announcement, Pimping, Publication, Writing
(for those of you who haven’t read these yet, the first two instalments of my WOTF retrospective can be found here https://jasonfischer.com.au/?p=136 and here https://jasonfischer.com.au/?p=155)
Immediately after the awards ceremony, we writers and illustrators made our way back into the hotel lobby. Before the ceremony, this had been the venue for our swanky dinner, now we found that we were at the site of our first book signing. The organisers of this event are nothing if not awesome, and it makes my head spin to think how quickly they effected this change!
The lobby of the Roosevelt, shortly after its transformation from a dining hall into a book launch/signing. Big stacks of the anthology can be seen in the middle of the room, and along the outside of the room the illustrators wait next to their framed illustrations. Most of the writers can be seen in the middle of the pic, madly signing away.
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by Jason Fischer | Sep 23, 2010 | Announcement, Publication, Writing
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 book, it already looks like a great line-up of local writers:
http://keithstevenson.com/CDLblog/2010/07/11/abe_update_3/
Many thanks to everyone at Clarion South who helped me with this story, and a big thanks to Russell B Farr for his advice and assistance.
