Monthly Archives: January 2005

Mark Kelly, posting about the recently released Locus Poll and Reading List, wrote: The online Locus Poll ballot is up … Special this year is a category for ‘best all-time fantasy story’ … Jonathan Strahan was the inspiration behind this category, and I’ll leave it to him to comment more about it in his blog. … Continue reading »

I remember someone once told me that you couldn’t hear someone’s accent when they were singing. It struck me as an odd, and not entirely accurate observation. After all, how could you account for the heavily Australian accent of Mick Thomas if that were true. I then heard Missy Higgins, who sounds so Australian it’s … Continue reading »

Brad Denton writes wickedly wonderful books. If you’ve read Blackburn, Lunatics, or Buddy Holly is Alive and Well and Living on Ganymede, you’d know that. His most recent books have been published by St Martins, but the Subterranean Press site lists a new novel, Laughin’ Boy, as being due out this year. The description for … Continue reading »

Sometimes things just leave you nonplussed. Pleased, but nonplussed. I was out browsing the web last week and saw that Asimov’s had posted Jim ‘Casey Kasem’ Kelly’s latest On the Net column, and that it was about blogs. In amongst the article, Jim names his top 40 blogs based on the criteria that ‘the posts … Continue reading »

I’ve edited a quarterly semiprozine, a one-shot critical ‘zine, some convention/conference materials, and nine reprint anthologies over the past ten years or so. They all have there own pitfalls and rewards, and I’ve enjoyed doing them. Currently, though, I’m working on my first ever, solo original anthology. It’s an exciting idea and I love the … Continue reading »