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The Australian Spec Fic Snapshot 2014 – T.B McKenzie
Born just before the 80’s began T.B McKenzie grew up in South Gippsland, Victoria, where boys either surfed or played football. He did neither, and, as this was a time before the Internet, he found his...
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The Australian Spec Fic Snapshot 2014 – Pete Aldin
Pete Aldin lives in the burbs of Melbourne, Australia. His professional life is spent helping people make major life decisions and re-training people for the workforce. His private life is spent making...
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The Australian Spec Fic Snapshot 2014 – Aidan Doyle
Aidan Doyle is a Melbourne based writer and computer programmer. His first short story was published in Aurealis in 1993. He attended Clarion South in 2009 and has since been published in places such...
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The Australian Spec Fic Snapshot 2014 – Kimberley Gaal
Kimberley Gaal is a 29-year-old speculative fiction writer who lives in Canberra, ACT. She was accepted into the 2012 JUMP National Mentoring Program for Young and Emerging Artists and was mentored by...
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The Australian Spec Fic Snapshot 2014 – Amanda J Spedding
Amanda J Spedding is an award-winning author, editor and proofreader. Her stories have been published in local and international markets earning honourable mentions and recommended reads. She won the...
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The Australian Spec Fic Snapshot 2014 – Lewis Morley
Lewis has a Bachelor of the Arts in Interior design from Sydney College of the Arts, and a Certificate in Art Direction from the Australian Film, TV and Radio School. He has worked for almost 30 years...
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The Australian Spec Fic Snapshot 2014 – Holly Kench
Holly Kench is a writer and a feminist, with a classics degree and a fear of spiders. She lives in Tasmania, Australia, where a lack of sun provides ample opportunity for hiding indoors and writing...
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The Australian Spec Fic Snapshot 2014 – Raymond Gates
Raymond Gates is an Aboriginal Australian writer based on the Gold Coast, whose childhood crush on reading everything dark and disturbing evolved into an adult love affair with writing horror. He has...
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The Australian Spec Fic Snapshot 2014 – Karen Wyld
Karen Wyld lives by the sea, nestled between scrub, hills and vineyards. She’s had an eclectic working life, and currently works in Aboriginal workforce development. From dabbling with poetry as a...
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The Australian Spec Fic Snapshot 2014 – Ambelin Kwaymullina
Ambelin Kwaymullina is an Aboriginal writer and illustrator from the Palyku people. The homeland of her people is located in the dry, vivid beauty of the Pilbara region of Western Australia. Ambelin...
View ArticleGalactic Chat 63 – Pat Cadigan
In this latest episode of Galactic Chat, I get to talk to to the amazing Pat Cadigan. In a wide ranging interview, we cover everything from Heinlein to Cyberpunk, look at “fix up” novels, and find out...
View ArticleGalactic Chat 64 – Amanda Pillar
In this episode of Galactic Chat I get to talk to one of my favourite Aussie Spec Fic people – Amanda Pillar! I have been lucky enough to be on some panels with Amanda, and can testify to how much you...
View ArticleGalactic Chat 65 – Tsana Dolichva
I loved chatting to Tsana about necroastronomy and bad science in books – and of course the wonderful anthology, Defying Doomsday. There is still time to back it and make a huge difference! In this...
View ArticleState of the Writer Update – Reviews, Interviews and Guest Posts
While the blog has been reasonably active–due to some wonderful guest posts–I have been a bit remiss in posting what I have been up to. There is a lot going behind the scenes, and I am getting a fair...
View ArticleGalactic Chat 68 – featuring me!
Bit of a belated post, but I found out what it was like to be on the other side of the mic when Sean interviewed me for Galactic Chat! I really have no idea what I said–I was a bit nervous–but if you...
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Galactic Chat 70 – Peter Clines
One of the first writing websites I started hanging around on when I initially started trying to get published was the Permuted Press message board. The reason I was there was because I had read an...
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In conversation with Alan Baxter
To celebrate the release of Alan Baxter’s trilogy (the Alex Caine Series), I asked him a few questions about this funny old game called writing… How does your background in martial arts affect your...
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Aussie Snapshot 2016: our own little census
The Aussie Spec Fic Snapshot has taken place five times in the past 11 years. In 2005, Ben Peek spent a frantic week interviewing 43 people in the Australian spec fic scene, and since then, it’s grown...
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My Aussie Spec Fic Snasphot 2016 roundup!
In the mad scramble to get things done before my overseas trip, I forgot to do a roundup post for the Aussie Spec Fic Snapshot! There were a heap of amazing interviews (that you can find by following...
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