Over on the podcast Galactic Chat, sister podcast to Galactic Suburbia, Alisa and Tansy have been interviewing Australian writers.
Catch up on interviews with Twelfth Planet Press authors:
Episode 6 – Deborah Biancotti.
Deborah Biancotti is a writer based in inner-city Sydney, Australia. Her first published story won an Aurealis Award and her first collection, A BOOK OF ENDINGS, was shortlisted for the 2010 William L. Crawford Award for Best First Fantasy Book. Her short fiction has won the Aurealis, the DITMAR and the Australian Shadows Awards. Deborah can be found online at http://deborahb.livejournal.com and http://deborahbiancotti.net, as well as on Twitter as @deborah_b.
Episode 4 – Kirstyn McDermott.
Kirstyn McDermott is a Melbourne-based writer of dark fantasy and horror. Her first novel, Madigan Mine (Pan Macmillan 2010) won the Aurealis Award for Best Horror Novel this weekend. She is currently working on a second novel as well as one of the upcoming Twelve Planets collections for Twelfth Planet Press. Last month, she sat down to talk with Alisa Krasnostein.
Kirstyn can be found at her website, http://kirstynmcdermott.com/ or on Twitter as @fearofemeralds
Episode 2 – Tansy Rayner Roberts.
Alisa interviews fantasy author Tansy Rayner Roberts, who was first published in 1998 when Splashdance Silver won the inaugural George Turner Prize.
More recently, Tansy won the Washington SF Association Small Press Short Fiction Award for “Siren Beat” (published by Twelfth Planet Press) in 2010. She is also the author of the Creature Court trilogy (HarperVoyager): Power and Majesty (2010), The Shattered City (2011) and Reign of Beasts (to be released later in 2011). Short story collection Love and Romanpunk is due for release from Twelfth Planet Press in May 2011.
Episode 1 – Marianne de Pierres.
In the first of this series of Galactic Chats, Tansy interviews Australian science fiction author Marianne de Pierres.
Marianne is the author of the Parrish Plessis action adventure series and more recently the feminist space opera series Sentients of Orion, and under the name Marianne Delacourt has also written the Tara Sharp series of humorous crime novels. She recently had a boutique collection of short stories called Glitter Rose published by Twelfth Planet Press. Marianne has now turned her hand to paranormal YA fantasy with Burn Bright, the first book of the Night Creatures trilogy.
Find out more about Marianne at www.mariannedepierres.com and www.burnbright.com.au
Follow her on Twitter @mdepierres