{"id":4829,"date":"2016-03-23T09:20:17","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T01:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/?p=4829"},"modified":"2016-03-23T09:20:17","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T01:20:17","slug":"happy-anniversary-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/2016\/03\/23\/happy-anniversary-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy anniversary, baby?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"97cae\" data-offset-key=\"843um-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"843um-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"843um-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">Huh. Well, that&#8217;s a curious thought. LinkedIn tells me that Coode Street Productions started up in March 1997, which would mean that it would be twenty years old next year. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"97cae\" data-offset-key=\"bg0dm-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"bg0dm-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"bg0dm-0-0\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"97cae\" data-offset-key=\"2gmi6-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"2gmi6-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"2gmi6-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">The date, of course, isn&#8217;t technically correct. I must have added it to cover my anthology editing career. That would have started around then. <\/span><\/span><span class=\"_5u8u\" spellcheck=\"false\" data-offset-key=\"2gmi6-1-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"2gmi6-1-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">Jeremy Byrne<\/span><\/span><\/span><span data-offset-key=\"2gmi6-2-0\"><span data-text=\"true\"> and I pitched The Year&#8217;s Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy to Louise Thurtell at HarperCollins Australia around then. Jeremy might have more precise dates. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"97cae\" data-offset-key=\"c714s-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"c714s-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"c714s-0-0\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"97cae\" data-offset-key=\"5vq5u-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"5vq5u-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"5vq5u-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">The Coode St name wasn&#8217;t in play then, though. That came a little later. Probably in mid-1999. I was living in a place on Coode St in Mt Lawley then and decided to produce a review magazine with <\/span><\/span><span class=\"_5u8u\" spellcheck=\"false\" data-offset-key=\"5vq5u-1-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"5vq5u-1-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">Steven Paulsen<\/span><\/span><\/span><span data-offset-key=\"5vq5u-2-0\"><span data-text=\"true\"> for the 1999 WorldCon in Melbourne. We only produced a single issue, but that was the birth of Coode Street Publications (probably in June 1999).<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"97cae\" data-offset-key=\"1o4ps-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"1o4ps-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"1o4ps-0-0\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"97cae\" data-offset-key=\"afe23-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"afe23-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"afe23-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">While the Coode St anniversary is incorrect, the anthology anniversary is not. I feel like I should do something to commemorate the 20 years of anthology editing come next March, but I&#8217;m not quite sure how. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Huh. Well, that&#8217;s a curious thought. LinkedIn tells me that Coode Street Productions started up in March 1997, which would mean that it would be twenty years old next year. \u00c2\u00a0 The date, of course, isn&#8217;t technically correct. I must have added it to cover my anthology editing career. That would have started around then. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/2016\/03\/23\/happy-anniversary-baby\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy anniversary, baby?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4830,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4829\/revisions\/4830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}