Month: January 2011

I meant to grab a photo of the cast, but in the heady atmosphere I forgot both nights. Damn! If anyone has any photos or video from the play I would love love love to see it. Anyhow it was grand to see Maxima Vrugleplex live and I’m excited to see where it will go.…

There have been some interesting discussions about Speculative Fiction in recent times Cat Valente as always wrote some interesting thought provoking stuff. The Ferret posted a poll… and from that this blog post was born. Trying to articulate what Spec Fic means to me. I don’t expect people to feel obliged to take on my…

Described by Ken Schneyer as a “weird, disturbing little story,” Shape for Her is now up on Moonlight Tuber. I hope you enjoy it.

I got to listen a sneak preview of some of a little bit of Maxima Vrugleplex yesterday. I am so full of excited meats I may explode! I may have teared up a to hear a tiny fragment of it come to life. My beauty is premiering This Friday and closing This Saturday (Jan 28-Jan…

I think I’ve learned more writing this monster than any other single work of fiction. It’s a monster, a giant, a thing of limitless potential that I am continually daunted by. I can now almost see the full shape of it. Aspects of the third act are getting clearer, spaces that had ‘political shenanigans’ are…

I’ve updated my MEGA archive of DOOM with reflections from the class of 2010 Dallas Taylor, Gregory Norman Bossert, John Chu and Tom Undeberg. My dear writer friends, applications for Clarion Writers’ Workshop opened in December 1st 2010 and will stay open until March 1st. It’s held at UC San Diego June 26 – August 6, 2011. Instructors are Nina…

This morning I realized/remembered this morning, that I first met Garth Nix around 15 years ago. Probably. I knew an author had come to my school and talked about his book and career and publishing, but I only just pieced together that it was probably Garth Nix. Author Man had come to my school to…

Daily Science Fiction has bought a second story from me “A Study in Flesh and Mind”. I am quite pleased, quite pleased indeed. I updated my bio just for them: Liz’s work has been published in a range of journals and anthologies including The Pedestal Magazine, Meanjin and Daily Science Fiction. In 2011 stories by…

I woke up strangely early on 1/1/11 with some new ideas for the novel. Here’s the first paragraph I wrote in the New Year. It’s a work in progress (of course). This is in the middle of Act II but I don’t think it contains any spoilers.

Novel words written: 76,000 Social Message comics worked on: 12 Number of Clients: 4 Stories I edited/refined for submission: 13 (I think) Utterly new stories completed: 5 Submissions Sent: 76 Acceptances: 6 (Including 1 reprint and on Maxima Vrugleplex becoming a play) Awaiting Response: 8 Stories Published: 2 (1 reprint) Super Secret Project Proposals sent:…