Wild Chrome reviewed by Publishers Weekly

Publishers Weekly have given Greg Mellor's debut collection Wild Chrome a wonderfully positive review. We're mightily happy when they start with

This collection of 21 stories, half reprints and half originals, firmly places prolific Australian author Mellor as a champion of intellectual science fiction.

You can read the full review at http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-921857-24-9

You can order this fantastic collection at indiebooksonline.

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The 400-Million-Year Itch reviewed at Publishers Weekly

This week's Publishers Weekly reviews two Ticonderoga titles. Steven Utley's The 400-Million-Year Itch gets a pretty awesome review. We're especially thrilled to read:

"The result is subtle but powerful, and will leave readers wanting to do their own research into prehistoric eras."

You can read the full review at http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-921857-17-1

You can pre-order the trade paperback at http://www.indiebooksonline.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=136

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Midnight and Moonshine Starred Review!

This week's Publishers Weekly has given a Starred Review to Midnight and Moonshine, the forthcoming collaborative collection by Lisa L. Hannett and Angela Slatter. We are almost speechless at this, especially every bit of it! We really really love when they write:

"Marked by imagery both beautiful and grotesque, and unnerving twists that recall the uncanny horror of original fairy tales, this collection contains a unifying, multilayered plot that draws upon Norse mythology to take the reader on a thrilling, unsettling journey."

You can read the full review at http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-92185-730-0

You can be one of the first to get this book - pre-order the tradepaperback at http://www.indiebooksonline.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=122

There is also a limited edition hardcover, signed by Hannett, Slatter, Kathleen Jennings (cover artist) and Kim Wilkins (introduction by) at http://www.indiebooksonline.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=123

Bread and Circuses podcast on Tales to Terrify

Felicity Dowker's fantastic story "Bread and Circuses" has been podcast at Tales to Terrify.

The incredible zombie tale was first published in Scary Kisses, edited by Liz Grzyb; and is the title story to Felicity's awesome collection Bread and Circuses.

We recommend you check them all out.

The Tales to Terrify podcast can be heard here: http://talestoterrify.com/tales-to-terrify-no-28-felicity-dowker/

Buy Felicity Dowker's Bread and Circuses collection here: http://www.indiebooksonline.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=118

Buy Scary Kisses here: http://www.indiebooksonline.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=90

The Year's Best Australian Fantasy & Horror 2011

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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Hardcover http://www.indiebooksonline.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=115

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Midnight and Moonshine

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.