Recent links of interest posted to our Twitter page

@AurealisXpress

ABC RN's The Book Show on Cormac McCarthy's The Road and the movie adaptation. http://bit.ly/bErwyU stream or download

Vote in the David Gemmell Legend Awards - Aussies on the list include Miller, Canavan & Marillier http://tinyurl.com/y9

Deborah Biancotti's story collection A Book of Endings shortlisted in the Crawford Award http://bit.ly/a7tHJs Congrats!

The Small Picture Podcast interviews Duncan Lay http://bit.ly/dqMe1T mp3 or stream

Kylie Chan interview "Blending East with West" at The Straits Times Blogs http://bit.ly/bnGHcY

Two interviews with Foz Meadows: http://tinyurl.com/y868gec & http://fozmeadows.wordpress.com/2010/01/24/it-has-begun/

Sean Williams is "standing for election in SFWA, as Overseas Regional Director on the most excellent Scalzi/Kowal ticket" http://bit.ly/96SCti

Marianne de Pierres http://bit.ly/cc2FfH and Tracey O'hara http://bit.ly/d2DjrQ "show you theirs" at Tara Moss's blog. (Their desks, that is)

Link from last year I missed: Authors from the Apex Book of World SF Discuss the Global Reach of Speculative Fiction http://bit.ly/dxEVAQ

The Small Picture Podcast interviews Kylie Chan http://bit.ly/cClcXg

Kate Forsyth interviewed by Robert Salisbury at the Manly Writers Group. Part 1 of 5 at YouTube http://bit.ly/8lTvbi

 Preliminary Bram Stoker Ballot shortlist

Congratulations to Shane Jiraya Cummings and Andrew McKiernan for their shortlisting in the Bram Stoker awards for horror fiction. Cummings (author) and McKiernan (illustration) have picked up their shortlist for superior achievement in a collection. The Bram Stoker awards will be announced later this year.

 New Ford St supernatural title

Everyone welcome to Ford Street's launch of Foz Meadows's Solace & Grief at the Carlton Library, 667 Rathdowne Street, Carlton on 20 February at 2pm for 2:30pm. Kirstyn McDermott will be launching it!
Bookseller + Publisher says " a clever and funny supernatural romp, with a chilling underside" and "Solace & Grief is solid and a welcome addition to the burgeoning vampire book market". There's more, but come along and read it for yourself!

If you're living in Sydney, you'll be pleased to know that Scott Westerfeld is launching the book at Books Kinokuniya, Sydney,
Level 2, Galeries Victoria
500 George Street
Sydney on Sunday, March 7 at 12:30pm
RSVP info@fordstreetpublishing.com.

 Aurealis Award winners

The Aurealis Award winners were presented at a glittering ceremony in Brisbane on Saturday 24th January. Chimaera Publications and Aurealis magazine would like to congratulate all winners in all categories, but especially Trudi Canavan, Paul Haines, Pamela Freeman and Cat Sparks for their continued success and friendship.