Marianne de Pierres

It’s taken a few months to regroup after finishing my PhD. And I’ve decided to give myself until the end of the year to write some academic articles and finish my new dark fanasy novel, The Water Dragon Queen. I’m also rewriting my PhD novel, A Once and Future Past, and working on a Tara Sharp novella.

While that’s all bubbling along, I will be writing serialised romance for Radishfiction.com 

Part of this consolidation time has been spent looking at where I am at in the broad scheme of publishing, and I thought you might be interested to see the academic articles and thesis based on some of my fiction:

In 2011, Dr Roslyn Weaver from the University of Sydney devoted a chapter ‘The End of Human: apocalypse, cyberpunk and the Parrish Plessis novels’ to my Parrish Plessis trilogy in her scholarly work Apocalypse in Australian Film and Fiction: a critical study, published by McFarland Press.

In 2017, Dr Dorothea Boshoff from the University of South Africa completed a doctorate based on my four-book series, The Sentients of Orion. The thesis was entitled Crafting Positions: Representations of Intimacy and Gender in The Sentients of Orion. Dr Boshoff also published an article in the Mensageiros das Estrelas Journal, entitled ‘He Said, She Said: Fake News and #MeToo in Marianne de Pierres’ Sentients of Orion.’ Thea also tells me that she is wriing an article about themes of lonliness in my fiction, using an unpublished short story from the Sentients of Orion universe entitled The Echo of Love.

In 2018, Dr Gerry Turcotte, president of St Mary’s University in Calgary, Canada, published an article entitled ‘The Caribbean Gothic Down Under: Caribbean Influences in Marianne de Pierres’ Parrish Plessis Novels’ in Caietele Echinox, vol 35: Neo-Gothic – Hybridizations of the Imaginary.

After three weeks of book tour and appearances its not surprising I’m fighting off a cold. Melbourne Supanova was wonderful though, and made better by the fact I got to spend some time with my twin, Isobelle Carmody, who I hardly ever see. Isobelle is my kind of people in every way and I hope to have her back in Australia full time one day. I’m waiting on some Supanova pics to come through, especially the one of me with Aaron, who was wearing the biggest Fro in the history of Fros!

IMT, here is a round up of stuff. Burn Bright continues to get most gratifying reviews, which I am accumulating over here. I’ve also just done an interview with YA Concoction, and She Who is Know as Jess, and Eleusinian Mysteries are doing Burn Bright And giveaways of their own volition. Many thanks guys! And Missie at The Unread Reader has included Burn Bright in her YA Aussie Book Tour.

A lovely in depth review of Glitter Rose popped up this week too. The book is available currently for a discount, as we attend conventions. If you’d like to pick up a copy for $25 AUD, you can email me through this website’s contact form.

I received my copy of Apocalypse in Australian Fiction and Film by Roslyn Weaver this week and it’s so terribly cool to see the chapter on Parrish Plessis. I can’t wait to read it.

What else? Laura Anne Gilman is going to be guest blogging soon, so am looking forward to that. And there’ll be some more Super Creatives upcoming.

Finally, I’d like to announce the winner of the Ilona Andrews book set. Evening Green is the winner with this post on The Moment of Gratuitous Coolness:

I think a favorite moment of gratuitous coolness of mine would be in “Ronia the Robber’s Daughter” which I read as a child, when Ronia’s friend (who is the son of the rivaling band of robber’s chief) is held prisoner by her own people and she ensures his safety by jumping over an abyss to be captured by her family’s enemies who then can exchange her for him and both go free. I still remember this scene vividly and I think it will stick with me for a long time.

**Evening Green could you please send your postal details to me through the website’s contact form and I’ll pass them on to Ilona.