The winner and shortlist for the Crawford Award has been announced by the awards administator, Gary K. Wolfe. I am delighted that my dear friend Deb Biancotti’s The Book of Endings made the shortlist. I was in Melbourne last year for the book launch and I think it’s a fine debut, and a terrific piece of [...]
Monthly Archives: January 2010
Weekend.
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Yesterday was a grand day to blow off the last vestiges of the bug/virus that has been pursuing me for about half of January. Just that by itself was enough to turn me from a somewhat tired and overbusy person into a really rather unhappy one. Still, I am emerging from the other side of [...]
Eclipse Three at the AAs
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Eclipse Three just won the Aurealis Award for Best Anthology. I’m deeply flattered, and grateful to everyone. I asked Sean Williams to say these few words at the ceremony: I wish I could be there with you all on what I am sure is a glittering and glamorous BrisVegas night, but I am called upon [...]
Viva BrisVegas
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Tonight the glitterati of Australian science fiction will assemble at the Judith Wright Contemporary Arts Centre in Brisbane, Australia for the 2010 Aurealis Awards. I am delighted to be nominated, and saddened that I can’t be there for what is sure to be a magnificent night. This is , I believe the final time that [...]
Thursday
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Sitting on the back patio again, nursing a beer, reading rock criticism, and listening to Augie March. It’s been a wearing mid-January, but I persevere. I find myself tired, irritable, impatient, and not quite myself. Aren’t you glad you’re far away? I can’t even say I’m reading. Started a few thins, but they all lie [...]