We've just unpacked our first copies of The Year's Best Australian Fantasy & Horror 2011, edited by Liz Grzyb and Talie Helene.

It looks great, we recommend that you all get a copy from indiebooksonline.

32 fantastic stories from the best Australian and New Zealand writers.

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Introducing one of our eagerly awaited titles of the year, bringing together two incredible talents.

Angela Slatter, World Fantasy Award nominee, Aurealis Award-winner Best Collection for The Girl With No Hands and Other Tales (Ticonderoga).

Lisa L. Hannett, World Fantasy Award nominee, Aurealis Award-winner Best Collection for Bluegrass Symphony (Ticonderoga).

For their first published collaboration, Angela and Lisa gave us "The February Dragon" in Scary Kisses (Liz Grzyb ed, Ticonderoga), Aurealis Award-winner Best Fantasy Story.

Midnight and Moonshine is 13 incredible stories from these amazing, award-winning writers.

In their words...

And thus we threatened and thus it came to pass ... or rather will do so in November this year. Yes, we have a cover for Midnight and Moonshine, we have stories, an introduction by the fabulous Kim Wilkins, a release date, an accommodating publisher, and we have details.

Pre-ordering can occur here – either the trade paperback or the fancy-schmancy hard cover limited editon with our paw prints on it.

What is Midnight and Moonshine about? We’re so pleased you asked:

The gods are dead, but will not be forgotten.

When Mymnir flees the devastation of Ragnarok, she hopes to escape all that bound her to Ásgarðr — a heedless pantheon, a domineering brother, and her neglectful father-master, Óðinn. But the white raven, a being of memory and magic, should know that the past is not so easily left behind. No matter how far she flies, she cannot evade her family…

In planting seeds of the old world in the new, Mymnir becomes queen of a land with as many problems as the one she fled. Her long-lived Fae children ignite and fan feuds that span generations; lives are lost and loves won because of their tampering. Told in thirteen parts, Midnight and Moonshine follows the Beaufort and Laveaux families, part-human, part-Fae, as they battle, thrive and survive in Mymnir’s kingdom.

Midnight and Moonshine is a collection of interconnected tales with links between them as light and strong as spider-silk. From fire giants to whispering halls, disappearing children to evening-wolves, fairy hills to bewitched cypress trees, and talking heads to moonshiners of a special sort, Midnight and Moonshine takes readers on a journey from ninth century Vinland to America’s Deep South in the present day. Hannett and Slatter have created a mosaic novel of moments, story-tiles as strange as witchwood and withywindles.

Midnight and Moonshine is a rich tapestry of dark fantasy, fairy tale and speculation.

Table of Contents

1. Seeds
2. Burning Seaweed for Salt
3. The Morning is Wiser than the Evening
4. The Third Who Went With Us
5. To that Man, My Bitter Counsel
6. Kveldúlfr
7. The Red Wedding
8. Midnight
9. Of the Demon and the Drum
10. Warp and Weft
11. Bella Beaufort Goes to War
12. Prohibition Blues
13. Seven Sleepers

When will the book be available? 15 November 2012.

Are Lisa and Angela available for interview? Yes, contact them either via their websites or via Russell B. Farr at Ticonderoga Publications (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

Who did that awesome cover? The magnawesome Kathleen Jennings.

We're pleased to reveal the covers to Jane Routley's Chronicles of Dion.

All of these titles can be ordered through indiebooksonline, either individually or as a trilogy set in paperback http://www.indiebooksonline.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=131 or hardcover http://www.indiebooksonline.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=130

We expect to have full covers and pre-ordering details up on the website this weekend, but until then here's a snippet of the glorious cover we have planned for the first book in Jane Routley's Chronicles of Dion, Mage Heart.

Lisa L. Hannett's fabulous debut collection, Bluegrass Symphony, has been shortlisted for the World Fantasy Award for Best Collection.

Congratulations Lisa and good luck!

We're also chuffed that Kathleen Jennings has been nominated for Best Artist, and next week we'll be revealing the fantastic cover artwork she has contributed to the forthcoming Hannett/Angela Slatter collaborative collection, Midnight & Moonshine.

The full list of Best Collection finalists are

•  Bluegrass Symphony, Lisa L. Hannett (Ticonderoga)
•  Two Worlds and In Between, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Subterranean Press)
•  After the Apocalypse, Maureen F. McHugh (Small Beer)
•  Mrs Midnight and Other Stories, Reggie Oliver (Tartarus)
•  The Bible Repairman and Other Stories, Tim Powers (Tachyon)

Congratulations and good luck to all of these incredible talents.

All of the World Fantasy Award finalists can be found at http://www.wfc2012.org/pr-wfawards01.html

Jane Routley has written five novels for adults. Her short stories have been widely anthologised, have appeared in Meanjin and been read on the ABC. She enjoys mentoring emerging writers and has had many years experience in doing so. When she’s not writing she works for the railways and hangs around Flinders Street Station looking for ideas.

The late Sara Douglass said of Jane Routley’s work: “[she] writes with a freshness and vigour rare in today's crowded market. Her characters are a dexterous mixture of the astute, the delightful, and the deceptive, displaying the full range of human weakness and wonder—no wonder the plot glides forward so effortlessly."

Her website can be found at www.janeroutley.com