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We're please to have picked up a few nominations in the 2017 Aurealis Awards list just announced!

Each of our 2017 titles picked up at least one nomination. A very huge congratulations to

The Silver Well, by Kate Forsyth and Kim Wilkins

Best collection
Best fantasy novella, "The Cunning Woman's Daughter"

Ecopunk! edited by Liz Grzyb and Cat Sparks

Best science fiction novella, "The Wandering Library", D.K. Mok
Best science fiction novella, "Island Green", Shauna O'Meara

The Year's Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2015, edited by Liz Grzyb and Talie Helene

Best anthology

In addition, a number of writers we've previously published are nominated, including Lisa L. Hannett, Angela Slatter, Kaaron Warren, Alan Baxter, and Cat Sparks, and huge congratulations to them! We'd like to congratulate all of the nominees of this year's awards, the full list is at https://aurealisawards.org/2018/02/15/2017-aurealis-awards-shortlist-announcement/. The winners will be announced in April.

And if you're looking to buy our award-nominated books, you can find them at:

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A huge thank you to everyone who helped us reach our goal! We're over the moon to have got there, and are now looking at some stretch targets to pay writers and artists more.

We're also a SFWA Star Project!

Please consider backing us! THere's less than 2 weeks to go!

Here's where you can find our kickstarter project. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/499651181/the-years-best-australian-fantasy-and-horror-6

The Project

The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror is over 150,000 words of the best fantasy and horror fiction written by Australians (and New Zealanders) and published all over the world in 2015. We've already done this five times for the years 2010-2014, and we'd like to do it again.

In addition to the reprinted fiction, The Year's Best Australian Fantasy and Horror series features an extensive introductory essay on the annual state of the genre, obituaries, a recommended reading list, and a list of Australian and New Zealand award recipients.

It is the only volume of its kind being published in Australia at present.

How you help

Putting together a volume of this size, usually featuring the work of more than 30 contributors, is a big task for two editors and a small press.

The Year's Best Australian Fantasy and Horror series is an important work, but it is also a considerable up-front cost: several thousand dollars of outgoings before a single cent comes back.

We're doing this because we love Australian speculative fiction, we love books, and we want to keep doing this as long as we can. We're in this for the long term, but could use some help to keep this title going.

Please consider backing us!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/499651181/the-years-best-australian-fantasy-and-horror-6

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Locus has announced its 2015 Recommended Reading List and we're incredibly over the moon that Anna Tambour's collection The Finest Ass in the Universe has made the list! And one of her original stories in the collection, "Lab Dancer", made the list too!

You can buy this book (at 20% off until the end of February!) at

The Finest Ass in the Universe http://www.indiebooksonline.com/catalog/product_info.php/products_id/197

You can check out the full list of finalists at http://www.locusmag.com/News/2016/02/2015-locus-recommended-reading-list/

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The final ballot for the 2015 Australian SF (Ditmar) Awards has been announced, and we're very chuffed to be among the nominees!

A huge congratulations to

Kathleen Jennings, "A Hedge of Yellow Roses" (Hear Me Roar) - Best Short Story

Amanda Pillar (ed), Bloodlines - Best Collected Work

Kathleen Jennings, cover art Bloodlines - Best Artwork

and good luck! The results will be announced at the end of March at the Australian National Convention.

You can buy these books (at 20% off until the end of February!) at

Hear Me Roar http://www.indiebooksonline.com/catalog/product_info.php/products_id/196

Bloodlines http://www.indiebooksonline.com/catalog/product_info.php/products_id/204

You can check out the full list of finalists here http://wiki.sf.org.au/2016_Ditmar_preliminary_ballot

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The final ballot for the 2015 Aurealis Awards has been announced, and we're very chuffed to be among the nominees!

A huge congratulations to

“Blueblood”, Faith Mudge, in Hear Me Roar - Best Young Adult Short Story, Best Fantasy Short Story

“Broken Glass”, Stephanie Gunn, in Hear Me Roar - Best Fantasy Novella

“The Flowers that Bloom Where Blood Touches the Earth”, Stephanie Gunn in Bloodlines - Best Fantasy Novella

The Finest Ass in the Universe, Anna Tambour - Best Collection

Bloodlines, Amanda Pillar (ed) - Best Anthology

The Year's Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2014, Liz Grzyb and Talie Helene (ed) - Best Anthology

Hear Me Roar, Liz Grzyb (ed) - Best Anthology

and good luck! The results will be announced at the end of March at the Australian National Convention.

You can buy these books (at 20% off until the end of February!) at

Hear Me Roar http://www.indiebooksonline.com/catalog/product_info.php/products_id/196

Bloodlines http://www.indiebooksonline.com/catalog/product_info.php/products_id/204

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2014 http://www.indiebooksonline.com/catalog/product_info.php/products_id/202

The Finest Ass in the Universe http://www.indiebooksonline.com/catalog/product_info.php/products_id/197

You can check out the full list of finalists here https://aurealisawards.org/2016/02/17/announcement-2015-aurealis-awards-shortlists/

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We've set up a kickstarter project. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/499651181/the-years-best-australian-fantasy-and-horror-6

We need your help to become the first Australian-focussed year's best speculative fiction anthology series to publish 6 consecutive volumes.

The Project

It is the only volume of its kind being published in Australia at present.

How you help

Putting together a volume of this size, usually featuring the work of more than 30 contributors, is a big task for two editors and a small press.

The Year's Best Australian Fantasy and Horror series is an important work, but it is also a considerable up-front cost: several thousand dollars of outgoings before a single cent comes back.

Please consider backing us!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/499651181/the-years-best-australian-fantasy-and-horror-6

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To commemorate our 20th year in publishing, we've taken 20% off all of our paperback titles at indiebooksonline! For the entire month of February! Check out our range, get awesome new titles like HEAR ME ROAR, our feminist sf anthology edited by Liz Grzyb, or classics like the award-winning MAGIC DIRT: The best of Sean Williams. Check it out at indiebooksonline.com.

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Congratulations to our three Ditmar Awards finalists!

Congratulations and good luck to Stephanie Gunn ("Escapement" in Kisses by Clockwork, ed Liz Grzyb, Best Novella or Novellette), Liz Grzyb and Talie Helene eds The Year's Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2013 (Best Collected Work), and Kathleen Jennings for her illustrations in Angela Slatter's collection Black-Winged Angels (Best Artwork).

Buy these titles here

Kisses by Clockwork http://www.indiebooksonline.com/catalog/product_info.php/products_id/164

The Year's Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2013 http://www.indiebooksonline.com/catalog/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=best+2013

Black-Winged Angels http://www.indiebooksonline.com/catalog/product_info.php/products_id/163

And check out the full list of Ditmar Award nominees here. The winners will be announced 4 April.

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The 2014 Aurealis Awards finalists have been announced and we're chuffed to have picked up three nominees!

Congratulations to Ian McHugh (Angel Dust, Best Collection), Angela Slatter (Black-Winged Angels, Best Collection) and Liz Grzyb (Kisses by Clockwork, Best Anthology).