Monday, 20 July 2009
Following on from my last update, the winners of the
Ditmar
Awards
were announced at the Australian National Convention. “Tender
Morsels” by Margo Lanagan, which was short-listed
for the Locus Award in the
Progress on my second novel has slowed dramatically of late, but for the very best of reasons. My wife and I were thrilled by the safe arrival of our second daughter back in June. One month on, I’m pleased to say that she’s doing well and our household is slowly settling into a new routine. Quality sleep remains elusive, so that’s made it hard to write in the margins of each day. The silver lining from this enforced break is a fresher perspective on what I’ve written to date, which will help enormously with my looming edit.
Since I don’t have much else to report on the literary front, I thought I’d mention some other works that might be of interest. Stephen Irwin’s debut novel, The Dead Path is receiving some positive attention and has been compared by HorrorScope to Stephen King’s “Bag of Bones”. Definitely one to check out.
Also, well-established fantastist Richard Harland has just had
his latest novel, called
Worldshaker,
released into the wild. It’s already sold into the
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