Allyson Bird is one of those writers who see things in many layers. She has a sharp vision and a dark, dark turn of words. She has an almost filmic way of writing, I think, so that a story plays itself out very visually. “Three sparks that started some of my [...]
Archive for November, 2011
Sparks: Allyson Bird
Posted in General on November 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
News of varying kinds.
Posted in General on November 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I talk to Lynda Rucker at Sinescope about women writing in horror. Ishtar is released! The amazing three novella anthology from Gilgamesh Press, with stories from me, Cat Sparks and Deb Biancotti. I’ve been invited as a Special Guest to the Australian National Convention, which will be held in Canberra in 2013, as Conflux 9. [...]
Sparks: Aliette de Bodard
Posted in General on November 15, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Aliette de Bodard, another Angry Robot author, has an almost magical ability to bring history alive on the page and make the unreal real. Here, she talks about her series Obsidian and Blood, and the process she went through to develop the storyline. “One of the advantages of having a series with [...]
Sparks: Jason Nahrung
Posted in Sparks on November 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I loved Jason Nahrung’s story in ‘Dreaming Again’, and to me this spark explains why it has such heart. ‘Smoking, Waiting for the Dawn’ (Dreaming Again) is set in an askew Wyandra, an outback town reduced now to little more than a pub, a post office/store/cafe and a few houses. The idea for the story [...]
