Author of seventy-five published short stories and thirty-five novels, nominated for the Ditmar, the Aurealis and the prestigious Philip K Dick Award for Saturn Returns, Sean has been published around the world in numerous languages, on-line, and in spoken word editions.  His current projects include The Fixers, a science fiction series for children, Star Wars: The Old Republic: Fatal Alliance and Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2, and Troubletwisters, the first in a series of fantasy novels co-written with Garth Nix.

He is a founding board member of the Big Book Club Inc., assesses for the Carclew Youth Arts’ Project and Development Grant Advisory Committee, sits on the Advisory Committee of Adelaide Writers’ Week, helps judge the Somerset National Novella Competition and the Writers of the Future contest, and was recently elected Overseas Regional Director of the premier international representational body of speculative fiction writers, SFWA.

Kim Wilkins was born in London and grew up in Brisbane. She has degrees in English Literature and Creative Writing. The Infernal won the 1997 Aurealis Awards for Best Horror Novel and Best Fantasy Novel. In 2000 The Resurrectionists won the Aurealis Award for Best Horror Novel, while Angel of Ruin won this award in 2001. Kim also writes under the name of Kimberley Freeman. Kim lives in Brisbane, Queensland.

Congratulations to Dead Sea Fruit writer Kaaron Warren on winning the Canberra Critics Circle writing award last night for her novel Slights.

The 20 year-old Canberra Critics’ Circle is the only such group of critics in Australia that runs across all the major art forms, not just performing arts. The circle changes each year depending on who is writing or broadcasting on the arts in Canberra.

For more information on the Canberra Critics Circle Awards go here: ccc-canberracriticscircle.blogspot.com/2010/11/artist-of-year-award-goes-to-inspiring.html

Slights is Kaaron’s first novel, the first of three jaw-dropping books to be published by Angry Robot. Her award-winning short fiction has appeared in Year’s Best Horror & Fantasy, the Poe and Haunted Legends anthologies, Fantasy magazine, Paper Cities, and many other venues in the US, Europe and Australia. Her short story “A Positive” has been made into a short film called Patience, and her first ever published short story “White Bed” was dramatised for the stage in Australia.

She is currently working on a novella about the goddess Ishtar, and a novel about the washerwoman in history. She is an Australian, currently based in Canberra.

Ticonderoga Publications is excited to announce the forthcoming publication of two collections by internationally unknown writer Steven Utley.

The books will collect Utley's acclaimed Silurian Tales.

The collections will be titled The 400-Million-Year Itch and Invisible Kingdoms, scheduled for publication in 2012 and 2013 respectively.

Steven Utley emerged as one of a group of writers from around Austin, Texas in the early 1970s. The group also included Bruce Sterling, Howard Waldrop, Lisa Tuttle and Lewis Shiner. Exclusively a short fiction specialist, Utley's work has brought him much critical acclaim but less recognition, leading Utley to proclaim himself as "Internationally unknown", and Gardner Dozois to state that he "may be the most under-rated science fiction writer alive."

Dozois has also described Utley as a writer "of strength, suppleness, and seemingly endless resource ... able to turn his hand to almost any subject matter, mood, or type of story imaginable."

In Science Fact and Science Fiction: An Encyclopedia, Brian Stableford describes Utley's Silurian Tales as "the most elaborate reconstruction of a past era in recent speculative fiction." These stories concern the adventures and misadventures of a scientific expedition in the Paleozoic Era and also address some implications of the many-worlds hypothesis in quantum physics.

“Steven Utley's Silurian Tales put believeable characters into a unique environment,” Ticonderoga Editor Russell B Farr said.

"It says something about the writer that Utley is; other writers send characters back to walk with dinosaurs, Utley puts people among primitive fish, trilobites and prehistoric mud and then makes it work," Russell B Farr added.

The two books will collect thirty-three stories.

Ticonderoga's first full-length publication was Steven Utley's first collection, Ghost Seas in 1997.

“He trusted me with his stories when I was a 23-year-old punk - it's great to have an opportunity to work with Steven again,” Russell added.

The 400-Million-Year Itch will be published in July 2012, with Invisible Kingdoms scheduled for 2013. The collections will be available in limited edition hardcover and trade editions.

Steven Utley (born 1948) is an American writer. He has written poems, humorous essays and other non-fiction, and worked on comic books and cartoons, but is best known for his science fiction stories.

Steven passed away on 13 January 2013, from cancer.