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oooo, watch me say some controversial things [10 Jul 2009|10:18am] I believe that the British Museum has a right to keep the Elgin Marbles, as long as they are kept in good condition on public display. I believe that it is not wrong to want to climb Uluru, provided you follow the established path. I remain unconvinced that Andrew Lloyd Webber has made any real contribution to art. While I appreciate what the Impressionists meant in the whole scheme of things, I find the vast majority of their work bland and suitable only for teatowels, tablemats etc. I believe that Michael Jackson is two things: overrated and dead. I believe that J.W. Howard was an exceptionally ordinary Prime Minister. That I believe all these things, and am willing to express these opinions in public, doesn't sit too well with a lot of folk. 7 comments|post comment

The Best of Australia's Master Fantasist in Two Volumes [07 Jul 2009|09:18am] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 7 July 2009 The Best of Australia's Master Fantasist in Two Volumes The best work of Terry Dowling, Australia’s master of fantasy, will be released in two elegant volumes published by quality independent publisher, Ticonderoga Publications. The two volumes, Basic Black: Tales of Appropriate Fear and Make Believe: A Terry Dowling Reader, collect thirty stories from Dowling’s almost 30-year career. Basic Black: Tales of Appropriate Fear was first published in 2006, selling out its print run and winning the International Horror Guild Award for Best Collection. This new release will be the first Australian publication of a collection, described by the American Library Association as “One of the best recent collections of contemporary horror.” Basic Black was also nominated for the Stoker Award for Best Collection. Make Believe comprises 12 stories hand-picked by editor Russell B. Farr to showcase the best of Dowling’s SF and fantasy, including work from his acclaimed Rynosseros and Wormwood cycles. Renowned French surrealist Paul Delvaux’s “La Vénus Endormie” provides a stunning cover for Make Believe. For true aficionados and collectors, 100 copies of each volume will released as a numbered hardcover edition, each one signed by Terry Dowling. Tradepaperback editions of each title will be available in time for Christmas. Dowling’s fiction has won 21 national and international awards: eleven Ditmar and four Aurealis Awards (two of them Convenors’ Awards for Excellence), an Australian Shadows Award, the International Horror Guild Award and two Readercon Awards in the US, a Prix Wolkenstein in Germany and a Grand Prix at Utopiales 2001 in France. He has received three World Fantasy Award nominations and a 2007 Stoker nomination for Best Collection. These landmark volumes are available for pre-order from www.indiebooksonline.com Terry Dowling can be found online at www.terrydowling.com 7 comments|post comment

mailing list [27 May 2009|10:08am] ticon has a new mailing list. you can join it by filling out the form on the right n this page: http://ticonderogapublications.com/wordpress/ keep up to date with new releases, special offers and news... 1 comment|post comment

advanced notice [27 May 2009|10:06am] just while i thought of it, most ticon projects will be closed to submissions from 1 August to 1 November, the exception being SCARY KISSES, the paranormal romance antho. I'll put up a proper notice in the next few days... post comment

Awards [09 May 2009|08:46am] Congrats to all of this year's Ditmar nominees! 2 comments|post comment

moving on... [05 May 2009|10:06am] have reinvented myself elsewhere on lj, if you want to i'm sure you can find me. will keep this lj active for making poignant posts at the world, as it seems folks come here looking for an argument anyway... 14 comments|post comment

i go private now [03 Mar 2009|10:19pm] going private. may post ticon updates from time to time, but am otherwise over people reading stuff into what i say that i don't intend.

My 2006 [31 Dec 2006|02:00am] [ mood | curious ] ( my 2006 ) post comment

Australia Post = misnomer [29 Dec 2006|06:09am] Been having issues with mail redirection... again. ( Australia Post are basically crap at their *special services* ) 4 comments|post comment

James Brown [25 Dec 2006|08:44am] Singer James Brown, known as the "Godfather of Soul", has died at the age of 73, his agent has said. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6208615.stm His music will live on. 1 comment|post comment

back [22 Dec 2006|01:23pm] We made it back across "the ditch", a hellish 13 hour transit not made easier by the rude staff at the Virgin Blue terminal in Brisbane. Holiday was swell, New Zealand is a fine place to visit. Not feeling 100%, head and neck and got some sort of hayfever/flu/cold thing, so it's a short post. Did some damage to the visa card at http://www.whiskygalore.co.nz/ but haven't felt up to tasting yet. Have made it through about a couple of days worth of flist. if I don't catch you before or during, have a fine festive season and get lots of cool loot if that's your bag. post comment

[11 Dec 2006|08:55pm] alive! post comment

how did I miss this? [05 Dec 2006|12:11pm] [ mood | amused ] [ music | smashing pumpkins - luna ] http://www.abc.net.au/sport/content/200612/s1802927.htm Melbourne police arrested former West Coast Eagles captain Ben Cousins for being drunk in a public place in the early hours of Sunday morning. -- I can't believe I missed this, and that no one at work has been talking about it. Good to see our role models setting an example... 8 comments|post comment

TiconderogaOnline 10 is now available! [04 Dec 2006|10:44pm] [ mood | accomplished ] [ music | concrete blonde - dance along the edge ] http://ticonderogaonline.org/010TOL/index.html Fiction + Iron Shirt : : Susan Wardle + Raspberry Roulette : : Brian Ross + Painting with Ichor : : Matthew Doyle Classic Reprint + White Christmas : : Sean Williams Interviews + Blurring into the unreal : : Interview with Paul Haines + In the entertainment game : : Interview with Simon Haynes Reviews + Provender Gleed : : Grant Watson + Doorways for the Dispossessed : : Russell B. Farr + Exultant : : Nicolee Baxter + Wintersmith : : Karen Miller + The Cosmic Puppets : : Lev Lafayette + The Anubis Gates : : Russell B. Farr + Keeping it Real : : Liz Grzyb + The Book of the Dead : : Nicolee Baxter Competition + Our Christmas Competition and results of our Through Soft Air Competition. Plus the chance to rate this issue and grab a tacky animated gif to tell the world what you thought of TiconderogaOnline #10! Checkitout! post comment

when December comes... [29 Nov 2006|11:10pm] [ mood | awake ] [ music | siouxsie & the banshees - dazzle ] Forgot to make this widespread: TiconderogaOnline will be closed to submissions for the month of December, as the editors will be on holidays, playing computer games for the first time in over a year, catching up on slush from other projects and otherwise gearing up for the next year (I'm also hoping to read at least one book "for pleasure"). So today is the last day to get a story to us this year. We open again January 1, and for the month of January we're open to subs from the whole wide world. Pass it on. Check out the guidelines here: http://ticonderogaonline.org/guidelines.html 2 comments|post comment

1,000 words and running [29 Nov 2006|02:31pm] [ mood | accomplished ] [ music | dido - don't leave home ] just got two reviews written for the next TiconderogaOnline (coming soon!) just need to find the right words for the editorial, and my work on that side of things is done for a little while. I think it'll be a good issue. It feels good, I haven't managed to finish a review for a few months and have a backlog that threatens to crush me whenever I walk past. post comment

some quotes should be immortalised [29 Nov 2006|12:38pm] [ mood | amused ] [ music | r.e.m. - chorus and the ring ] from: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/funny_old_game/6173250.stm "You'd have thought after four games without a win he'd have suffered enough." -BBC commentator at the Everton-Bolton match describing Bolton manager Sam Allardyce's midweek trip to see a Celine Dion concert in Las Vegas. post comment

HD, HD HD HD! H Deeeeeeeeeee, H Deeeeeeeeeeeeee! [29 Nov 2006|11:40am] The assignment I did on online reading, worth 40% of the unit, that I flogged myself on and lost a lot of sleep over, turned up in my letterbox today with a mark on it. HD! Got an HD on the proposal, too. So that means I've passed the unit, regardless on how I did on the exam. Woohoo! And I most probably got a credit on my other unit. Treating myself to a wee dram of the 15YO Laphroaig tonight. 18 comments|post comment

accomplished [28 Nov 2006|12:00am] [ mood | accomplished ] [ music | siouxsie & the banshees - fear (of the unknown) ] Have finally sent out the Donation Drive eBook, over a month late. The final product looks pretty good, simple and elegant, and at 190 pages including cookbook pretty much weighs in at full-sized anthology. Am expecting some to be lost in the email void, so if you're expecting on and it hasn't shown up in your inbox by the end of today please let me know. post comment

prayers for rain [26 Nov 2006|02:40am] [ mood | amused ] http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200611/s1797499.htm Christian churches across Australia will today hold special prayers for rain. The National Day of Prayer has been called by Christian leaders throughout Australia. -- I still think that sacrificing virgins is the way to go... 4 comments|post comment

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