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The Sir Julius Vogel sub-committee of SFFANZ is currently accepting nominations for science fiction and fantasy works first published or released in the 2009 calendar year. Nominations open on 1 January 2010 and close on 31 March 2010 at 8pm. Please send one nomination per email and include as many contact details as possible for the nominee as well as yourself.
The voting will occur at Au Contraire, http://www.aucontraire.org.nz/ - the national science fiction convention being held in Wellington, New Zealand over the weekend of the 27 - 29 August 2010.
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These are the New Zealand speculative fiction awards. Being a Kiwi, the following works are eligible: - NOVELLA : "Wives" by Paul Haines (X6, Coeur De Lion, 2009) - COLLECTED WORK: Slice of Life by Paul Haines (The Mayne Press, 2009) - SHORT STORY: Slice of Life - A Spot Of Liver by Paul Haines (Slice of Life, The Mayne Press, 2009) If you liked them, please feel free to nominate... Tags: sir julius vogel, writing
Current Music: David Bridie "Succumb" (2008)
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Author Alan Baxter ( MageSign, RealmShift) reviews Slice Of Life. The short of it: Paul’s stories are visceral, horrible, bile coated things swollen with fear and paranoia. They’re also darkly funny and uncomfortably honest. If you think he’s going to take you somewhere pretty nasty, he probably is. The long of it can be found here. And lovely to see that The Interferers was one of Alan's favourites in the collection. Tags: slice of life, writing
Current Music: The Beatles "Magical Mystery Tour" (1967)
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From Andrew McKeirnan ( ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) ashr501 ), designer extraordinaire: The new website for The Mayne Press, publisher of Paul Haines' Slice of Life collection is now online at http://www.themaynepress.com/Paul's collection, which is receiving Stoker Award recommendations and is also nominated for a couple of Aurealis Awards is available there for direct purchase (payment through PayPal). 100% of the cover price goes to the Paul Haines Cancer Fund and, for only $20 AUD (plus postage) you get what has to be one of the best single author collections released this century... and possibly all previous centuries too :) Check it out: http://www.themaynepress.com/Andrew, also up for an Aurealis Award for his short fiction, did the layout and design for Slice of Life. He's a good man! Tags: slice of life, writing
Current Music: Kasabian "West Ryder Pauper Lynatic Asylum" (2009)
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And random_alex has posted her Year's Best for Last Short Story. Wives again coming in the top bit (and only 3 stories in that top bit). Excellent! Full List Here
And Jonathon Strahan (Australian uber-SF-editor) also lists Wives in his 'virtual' Year's Best. Apparantly the novella is too long to make the printed Year's Best. Doh! It is, after all, only a couple of thousand words shy of a novel. For those who haven't read Wives yet, it is a tender love story set in a near-future rural Australia where a broken-hearted young man goes looking for love in all the wrong places. You can buy it online from Coeur De Lion. Tags: wives, writing
Current Music: The Church "Shriek" (2009)
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The list of finalists for the 2009 Aurealis Awards has been announced. I'm pleased to announce that I've been nominated for: Best Collection:
Slice Of Life (The Mayne Press, 2009) Best Horror Short Story:Wives ( X6, Coeur De Lion, 2009) Slice Of Life - A Spot Of Liver ( Slice Of Life, The Mayne Press, 2009) Best Anthology:Keith Stevenson (editor) X6 (Coeur de Lion, 2009) Well, technically X6 is Keith's baby, but I'm a brutally good part of that wonderful beast. What is even more wonderful is that the only things I have had published this year have all been nominated. Full Listing Here.Congrats to all the nominees. Tags: aurealis awards, slice of life, wives, writing, x6
Current Music: Kaiser Chiefs "Off With Their Heads" (2008)
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