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2009
OCTOBER
K J Taylor and Tracey O’Hara are at A&R River Plaza, Queanbeyan from 11-1pm on Saturday 31 October (aka Hallowe’en) – signing in COSTUME!
NOVEMBER
Duncan Lay will be signing at Borders in n Westfield at Hornsby on Sunday 1 November (a great way to start the month), at Borders in Tuggerah on Sunday 15 November, and at A&R Warringah Mall on November 22, in all cases from 11:30 – 1pm.
DECEMBER
Tracey O’Hara will be at Galaxy Bookshop in Sydney on December 10, from 6:30 – 8:30pm, signing and talking. Don’t miss her!
And Kylie Chan will be out and about on the east coast, promoting Earth to Hell … full details to come but you could well have a signed Christmas present …
A quick look at past events:
Tracey O’Hara, author of Night’s Cold Kiss, was at Conflux in Canberra over the October long weekend, along with KJ Taylor and Duncan Lay.
Kim Falconer, author of The Spell of Rosette and Arrows in Time, was featured in OutThere, the national in-flight magazine for Australia’s largest regional airlines, Regional Express (REX), as well as New South Wales’ AeroPelican Air Services, as part of an Open Universities Australia campaign. She also features in the OUA handbook and on their website.
KJ Taylor, author of The Dark Griffin was interviewed for ABC’s Stateline! See the episode video here. She was also interviewed by the Specusphere.
Maria Quinn talked about a future Sydney as part of the City of Sydney Events on Thursday 3 September.
Duncan Lay signed copies of The Wounded Guardian at Angus and Robertson Erina on Saturday September 5.
KJ Taylor’s book The Dark Griffin was launched in Canberra. Listen to the speeches here. Also listen out for an interview with Katie on ABC Radio.
Dreaming Again editor Jack Dann appeared at the Melbourne Writers Festival on 22 August for the ‘Visions of the City’ segment.
Voyager authors past and present Karen Miller, Sean Williams, Tony Shillitoe and Trudi Canavan attended Conjecture over the June long weekend.
Rhonda Roberts did a live radio interview at 12:30pm Queensland time on Wednesday 6 May. The interview waswith Jacq Ellem on 4RO Radio Prime Queensland.
Maria Quinn’s piece on surrogacy went up at ABC Unleashed
Russell Kirkpatrick was Guest of Honour at ConScription 2009, at Auckland Airport from 29 May to 1 June.
Fiona McIntosh attended the Paris book fair between March 11 -18.
FLYCON took place on March 14-15.
Kim Westwood, author of The Daughters of Moab, presented an award at the Awards Presentation night for the Mardi Gras Festival’s annual short story competition on the 17th of Feb 2009 at the Polo Lounge on Oxford Street, Sydney.
On Wednesday 18th February at Nunawading Library, (379 Whitehorse Road, Nunawading, Victoria, Australia), Jack Dann, Trudi Canavan, Cecilia Dart-Thornton and Adam Browne took part in a ‘Dreaming Again‘ panel.
On Wednesday 18 February, two of the authors published in Dreaming Again (edited by Jack Dann) were shortlisted for the AHWA Shadows Award: Sara Douglass “This Way to the Exit” and Christopher Green “Lakeside.” The winner will be announced on March 13.
On the same day we also heard the good news that Kim Wilkins’s short story ‘The Forest’ and Richard Harland’s short story ‘A Journey to the Kingdom of the Dead’ have both been sold to David Hartwell to be published in YEARS BEST FANTASY #9 this winter (so summer 09 for US readers). Both stories are from the Dreaming Again anthology.
The Aurealis Awards were announced! Go to the Aurealis Website for the full details. Congratulations to Jack Dann, Alison Goodman and Simon Brown!
The Immortal Prince, book one of the Tide Lords quartet, was shortlisted in the US by the Romantic Times in the Epic Fantasy category of the Reviewer’s Choice Awards. Congratulations to Jennifer Fallon!
On Thursday 18 December Jennifer Fallon did a signing at Book City, Yeperenye and took part in the Voyager Book Club on 16 December. The transcript will be posted up soon.
The December Spec Fic Blog Carnival was put up.
Karen Miller, author of the Riven Kingdom series and the Kingmaker/Kingbreaker duology, attended Utopiales in France! She updated her blog during the trip.
On Thursday 6 November, Traci Harding gave a talk and did a signing for Black Madonna and the Mystique trilogy at Adyar bookshop, Sydney.
Peter V. Brett, author of The Painted Man, attended this year’s World Fantasy Convention in Calgary, Canada and blogged about it. And he attended ComicCon in New York, from 6-8 February.
Trazfest, the annual celebration of all things Traci Harding, took place at the start of October. Here are some links to the photos of the weekend:
During the first weekend in October, Team Voyager (Natalie in publishing, Sarah in Marketing, Tim in Sales and Stephanie Smith, great Publisher of all Voyager-related items) went to Conflux in Canberra. And we had an amazing time – just see our blog entries!
Loads and loads of other people were there – and here’s some links to what they did:
Farwyn on Fantastic Poetry and Horror of the Apocalypse and on Conflux generally AND last day retrospective
Karen Miller on Supernatural and Conflux and Milk.
Russell Blackford on checking in and more …
Natalie/Taelian aka me going on about Floriade and whinging about lack of phototaking skill
Elehzya/Nyssa Pascoe from A Boy Goes On a Journey
Nicole Murphy (Conflux programmer) wrapping it all up
AshR/Andrew Mckiernan of Kephra Design on that’s Conflux, that was
Amanda Pillar of Morrigan Books
Jason Nahrung of Undead Camel fame
Peter M Ball, author of (among many other things) a fabulous story in Dreaming Again (that feels to me like it ought to be part of a longer story *hint hint*)
Liz Argall, co-MC with Richard Harland
LJ user Edsed, LJ user Ben Payne, LJ user Girlie Jones, LJ user Flinthart
Cat Sparks – gorgeous 20s flapper
Gillian Pollack, amazing banquetarian and Food Historian
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I absoulutley
LOVED the painted man-it has changed my life and touched my heart, but I KNOW that Peter should write a second book that includes a war featuring Arlen, Leesha and Rojer againt the demons and “Shar’Dama Ka, the deliverer” so as to rid the demons of The Painted Man’s world and to deny the Kraisians that their leader, Jadir, is the true deliverer and to prove whether there actuall is or is not a deliverer. Keep it up Peter and please do it, not for yourself, but for your fans. Thank you.
Hi Donna,
Very glad to hear you enjoyed ‘The Painted Man’ – it’s really going great guns out there! Peter’s next book ‘The Desert Spear’ is scheduled for September 2009, I know it sounds far away, but it’s worth waiting for!
Peter has a glimpse of the cover art up on his website: http://www.petervbrett.com