Aurum: we need your backing!
We've set up a kickstarter to partly fund Aurum: a golden anthology of novellas.
Aurum is an anthology of awesome speculative novellas by some of Australia's brightest talents. At this point we have locked in Joanne Anderton, Stephanie Gunn, Angela Rega, Lucy Sussex, and Susan Wardle, and expect to have at least a couple more awesome names before we go to print.
3 APRIL EDIT: We are chuffed to be able to add Juliet Marillier to this star-studded line-up!
Aurum will be approximately 90,000 words of exceptional original fiction, all novellas (more than 7500 words) giving the writers space to develop stories and write at a length not always considered commercially acceptable. We're giving the writers an opportunity to tell the stories they want to tell, and the space they want to tell them in.
Aurum will be edited by the A. Bertram Chandler Award-winning editor Russell B. Farr.
Aurum also celebrates the 20th year in publishing for Ticonderoga. We started way back in 1996, and since then have produced over 50 titles. Aurum was originally planned as our 50th title (hence the name) but a few other books came through and pushed it back a little. Numbers aside, Aurum will still be our golden book.
Please check this out and back us at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/499651181/aurum-a-golden-anthology-of-original-novellas
The Year's Best Kickstarter is funded!
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
The Finest Ass in the Universe is Locus Recommended
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/
Congratulations to our 2015 Ditmar Award Finalists!
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
Congratulations to our 2015 Aurealis Award Finalists!
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/
The Year's Best Kickstarter
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
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
20th year 20% sale
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.
The Finest Ass in the Universe is reviewed at Locus
The fabulous Farren Miller reviews Anna Tambour's collection The Finest Ass in the Universe in the latest Locus (October 2015). It's a great review, and we're especially chuffed when she says,
a ventriloquist’s delight, invoking a multitude of voices, places, and styles ... yet one master chef made the whole banquet.
You can read the full review in Locus Magazine.
The Finest Ass in the Universe is available in hardcover, paperback and ebook http://www.amazon.com/The-Finest-Universe-Anna-Tambour/dp/1925212165
Bloodlines cover and orders available
16 journeys on the dark streets of urban fantasy.
We're thrilled to be able to reveal the cover to our forthcoming original anthology Bloodlines. The artwork is by the awesomely multi-talented and multiple award-winning Kathleen Jennings (who also has a story in the anthology),
Bloodlines, the new non-traditional dark urban fantasy anthology edited by the award-winning Amanda Pillar. These 16 incredible original stories are:
- Joanne Anderton “Unnamed Children”
- Alan Baxter “Old Promise New Blood”
- Nathan Burrage “The Ties of Blood, Hair and Bone”
- Dirk Flinthart “In The Blood”
- Rebecca Fung “In the Heart of the City”
- Stephanie Gunn “The Flowers That Bloom Where Blood Touches Earth”
- Kelly Hoolihan “The Stone and the Sheath”
- Kathleen Jennings “The Tangled Streets”
- Pete Kempshall “Azimuth”
- Martin Livings “A Red Mist”
- Seanan McGuire “Into the Green”
- Anthony Panegyres “Lady Killer”
- Jane Percival “The Mysterious Mr Montague”
- Paul Starkey “The Tenderness of Monsters”
- Lyn Thorne-Adder “Lifeblood of the City”
- S. Zanne “Seeing Red”
Bloodlines will be available in mid-October 2015 and can be pre-ordered at http://www.indiebooksonline.com/catalog/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=bloodlines. Bloodlines will be available in hardcover, tradepaperback, and ebook.
Attendees of Conflux, in Canberra 2-5 October will be treated to the first look at this book, at a launch on 3 October. The rest of the world can experience this fantastic collection at World Fantasy Convention 2015.
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