Monthly Archives: December 2006

We were being silly today, at lunchtime. A crazy family! Sophie says “I love you very much, mommy”. Jessie says “I love you daddy, squat squat.” I don’t know what to say.

I don’t talk about sport much here because, mostly, it doesn’t fit. Still. As many of you know, Australia is currently leading ‘the stinking surrender monkeys’ four nil in the latest Ashes series. This is a simply a restoration of the normal order of things. Now, some people are starting to talk about how things … Continue reading »

The nice folk over at the UK SF Book News Network have done a short interview with me about The Jack Vance Treasury. It’s due out in January, which means we should be seeing final copies very soon. I’ve also pretty much done the last things (except a final proofread) for Ascendancies: The Best of … Continue reading »

Pfeh on this year. Pfeh pfeh on having a virus at Christmas. I hope you and all of yours are having, will have, are about to have, or had a wonderful, wonderful Christmas and a very happy New Year.

The word from far north Queensland is that the nominees for most of the Aurealis Awards have been announced. To my great delight, six of the stories from Eidolon have been shortlisted for the Awards. Congratulations to all of the nominees, and especially to Eidolon’s authors. A special extra shout out to Shaun Tan, who … Continue reading »