Lost In The Museum by Phoenix Writers is live on Amazon! Zany fantasy stories set in Te Papa, NZ’s national museum. If you want to taste before you buy, pop over to amazon to preview the book. You can get your copy here now! (I have two and a half stories in this anthology! One…
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The Sir Julius Vogel Award finalists are listed at this link from SpecFicNZ. It’s a fantastic honour that my two of my works are on this list. Thank you to all of my wonderful readers that nominated Ahi Ka and Twisty Christmas Tales for Sir Julius Vogel Awards. It’s great to know that you enjoyed…
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10 April 2014, is the deadline for Sir Julius Vogel Award voting from afar. If you are not attending Conclave II, the NZ National Science Fiction and Fantasy convention, held over Anzac weekend in Auckland, then you’ll need to vote by tomorrow. (Main voting takes place at national convention.) I have two works that have…
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Thank you! Thank you! & Thank you! Thanks to my fabulous readers, two of my works have made the shortlist for the 2014 Sir Julius Vogel Awards! AHI KA, co-authored by Eileen and Alicia Ponder, and winning entry of the NorthWrite 2013 Collaboration competition, is shortlisted for BEST SHORT STORY. TWISTY CHRISTMAS TALES is shortlisted…
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Nominations for New Zealand’s Sir Julius Vogel Awards for science-fiction, horror and fantasy close this Saturday 15 February 2014 at 8pm. I have two works Ahi Kā and Twisty Christmas Tales, which have been nominated for the Sir Julius Vogel Awards, however they need to be nominated multiple times to get on the short-list. If…
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Just for fun, I recently entered a worldwide flash fiction competition run by Inscribe Media (based in Britain.) The goal was to create emotion using 20 words or less. I had fun creating a few entries and was surprised when I received a special mention for this little story of 19 words: Scraps of rotting…
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SpecFicNZ (Speculative Fiction New Zealand) featured a post about us winning the NorthWrite 2013 Collaborative contest with our collaborative short literary work, Ahi Kā. Go here to see SpecFicNZ’s post. Alicia Ponder and I won first equal in this competition. Two other SpecFicNZ writers are mentioned for receiving an honourable mention in the same contest,…
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