Marianne de Pierres' Journal

Sentients of Orion schedule for US release

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:44:00 --0800

Direct from the Nightshade Books catalogue, here are the release dates. Dark Space - October 2010 Chaos Space - April 2011 Mirror Space - August 2011 Transformation Space - December 2011 And here's the Nightshade Blurb: The Sentients of Orion i...

Angus and Robertson Northlakes signing

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:25:00 --0800

I’ll be signing at the Angus and Robertson Northlakes store this Saturday 10 am – 12 pm. The shop is too small to fit more than one author at a time, so when Kylie and I were there last time we had to sit out in the corridor. This time I&...

Out of the Frying Pan

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 09:38:00 --0800

I'm neither here nor there about 'things that run in families'. Never thought about it a great deal. But my Grandfather, my sister and my brother are all writers. And now my twin nephews have their first book coming out. Call it genetics or a 'cluste...

E-book release set for May 6th, 2010

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:02:00 --0800

Orbit have given me a release date of May 6th, 2010 for e-books of the Sentients of Orion and Parrish Plessis series. For those of you who've been asking about them for a while, go forth and crash the download limit :) Trans Space is nearly a KO. Ab...

Small Mercies rock!

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 18:18:00 --0800

I was devastated to miss out on my Perth trip, and it's taken me a couple of days to get over missing out. However, I've tried to think positively and my reward was pizza and the last two episodes of Fringe season 1. Thank you Small Mercies!

Nightshade Books

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:42:00 --0800

I'm thoroughly delighted to say that Nightshade Books will publish the Sentients of Orion in the US through 2011. That means unique editions with new covers and some small text changes. Nightshade publish quality SF and F including authors like Kage...

Snapshot

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:02:00 --0800

The Australian Spec Fic Snapshot is up at the following blogs. To read them hot off the press, check these blogs daily: http://girliejones.livejournal.com/http://kathrynlinge.livejournal.com/http://www.mechanicalcat.net/rachelhttp://tansyrr.com...

My Desk

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 06:37:00 --0800

Welcome to QWC bog tourers. This is my desk. Very boring really! I write much better with a sparse environment, otherwise I spend way too much time ogling pictures and daydreaming. The PC is a back up to the lap top. The picture on the LT is...

World Con, Melbourne, 2010

Sun, 14 Feb 2010 07:50:00 --0800

Among the many exciting things happening at WorldCon in September, will be the launch/release of collections by Karen Waaron, Angela Slatter (both Ticonderoga), Cat Sparks (Orb) and myself (Twelfth Planet Press). Way to go girls! I'm starting to acc...

Mirror Space reprinted

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 06:50:00 --0800

I was excited to get reprints of the first three Sentients books in the mail this week. DS was reprinted 3 times last year - something I never expected. It's odd the things that get writers excited. It's very much a profession bouyed entirely by smal...

Urban Fantasy and stuff

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:25:00 --0800

Been having an interesting discussion on my Facebook page about the future of Urban Fantasy. Feel free to get over there and add your opinion. Am also pleased to be back working on my structural rewrite of Trans Space. These characters have been thr...

Perth Writers Festival

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 10:43:00 --0800

Trent Jamieson (who has a fab new-look blog), Tansy Rayner Roberts, Cory Daniells and Graham Storrs. But there's a bunch of other new local talent around as well. Check out Rhonda Roberts, Nicole Murphy, Kim Westwood, Kim Falconer - all Aussies....

Contemplating...

Sat, 30 Jan 2010 07:33:00 --0800

Well, I'm back in the seat after surgery, quite weak still but had enough of thinking about it for the moment. Loved all the kind messages on Facebook, so THANK YOU to everyone. Got me through a few bad days. So let's think about the year instead. T...

Ole

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:42:00 --0800

I have my first review in Spanish for Nylon Angel. The babelfish translation is a bit iffy but I think it's a positive one. Nice to see the Dolmen cover again. It's one of my favourites.

Writers' Desks and other news

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 06:42:00 --0800

Tara Moss is running an interesting feature on Writers' Desks. You can learn far too much from these pictures! There are many fundraisers going on for Haiti crisis at the moment. I've chosen Medecins Sans Frontieres for my aid donation. I believe th...