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Serious Sas and Messy Magda

I am absolutely thrilled to announce that my first picture book is being released by UK based publisher Books To Treasure this year. Most of you probably aren't even aware that I have a number of children's publications to my name. Indeed, writing for primary school children was my first love. ...

Knock Knock ... anyone home?

My apologies for radio silence. I've been travelling for three weeks and had full intention of posting regulalry while I was away. I found that my tablet wasn't really up to the task, and that anyway, I was getting so little time to upload that it wasn't happening! Some of you ...

MDP ON TV: Surviving Evil

There's something very compelling about survivor stories. Probably because we all have moments when we wonder what we would do if ... any number of things happened to us. In this new series hosted by Charisma Carpenter, we get to hear stories from women who've survived violent attacks. The series begins with ...

Review: One Small Step edited by Tehani Wessely

Reviewed by Joelene Pynnonen One Small Step is the perfect title for this anthology of stories by some very prominent Australian speculative fiction authors. It offers hope for the future and suggests the possibility of things that mere years ago seemed impossible. When taken in context of the famous quote ‘One ...

Spotlight On: David Mickey Evans

Thanks to October Coast, we had the chance to interview american filmmaker and writer David Mickey Evans, best known as the director of the iconic "The Sandlot" movies, as part of the celebration of the first film's 20th Anniversary. In addition, Mr Evans is also promoting his book "The King of ...

Are you a Maintenance Woman?

You know how I love flair when it comes to marketing and PR. It is it's own legitimate creative endeavour. When you couple that with a concrete, scientifically critical mind and great people skills, you come up with the kind of person who can move mountains. I want you all ...

Spotlight On: Todd Farmer (Screenwriter)

Todd interviewed by Bec Stafford. 1. Todd, you're running a 2-day writing master class at the Gold Coast Film Festival. Who were your writing role models, and what would be the #1 tip you'd give an aspiring screenwriter? Role model was without hesitation Stephen King. Granted my influence was with his prose ...

MDP Joins Keith Keller's Global Social Media Coaching

As you know I love me a bit of Social Media! So this week I launched a social media coaching consultancy called (surprise, surprise MDPWeb Consultancy!). This is an exciting step for me, and I'm looking forward to working with some of you in the future. Good fortune has brought me into ...

Dark Space Review

Good reviews are like pasta for a writer. We get enormous energy and sustenance from them. For me, I try and use the good ones as a motivation to keep going, and with the horrible ones, I tell myself everyone is entitled to their opinion - that's what makes the ...

Night Creatures International Release Covers

It's my great pleasure to show you the new international covers for the Night Creatures series. Artist Jarek Kubicki has worked with us so that we could bring you his amazing work. These covers use the same images but have different titling and text. Look for the great blogger quotes from Brodie, ...

Women and SF

Published: 10.15.2010

I’ve been quietly following the women and SF discussion at Torque Control and plan to write my list of potential classics over the weekend. Here are some that have been posted so far:

Liviu Suciu’s list from over at Fantasy Book Critic:

Spirit, Gwyneth Jones
The Year of Our War, Steph Swainston
The Etched City, KJ Bishop
Chaos Space, Marianne de Pierres
The Alchemy of Stone, Ekaterina Sedia
Principles of Angels Jaine Fenn
Darkland, Liz Williams
Daughters of the North/The Carhullan Army, Sarah Hall
Spin State, Chris Moriarty
Banner of Souls, Liz Williams

And Tansy Rayner Roberts from TRR.com:

Bold as Love, Gwyneth Jones
The Time Traveller’s Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
Farthing, Jo Walton
Nylon Angel, Marianne de Pierres
Passage, Connie Willis
Lavinia, Ursula Le Guin
Less Than Human, Maxine McArthur
Fallen Gods, Kate Orman (and Jonathan Blum, but I still want to count it)
The Empress of Mars, Kage Baker
Carnival, Elizabeth Bear
Spirit, Gwyneth Jones
New Amsterdam, Elizabeth Bear
The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
Blackout/All Clear, Connie Willis
Lifelode, Jo Walton

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