Musings of a Wannabe Speculative Fiction Writer
News items
The article, titled Had Your Reading Circle Shrunk?, talks about my attempts to read a bit more widely and recent participation in the Australian Women Writer’s Challenge 2012.
I also recorded a reading of The Gloriously Cunning Plan for the AntiSF radio show, which will be broadcast some time in March. I’ll post again once I know exactly which episode.
I recently submitted a cut down version of my original review of Power and Majesty by Tansy Rayner Roberts, which was accepted and put online as the Sunday 19th February 2012 review.
Cool.
Mick’s bio starts at about the 2 minute 40 second mark, and my narration begins at approximately 3 minutes 10 seconds. Nuke introduces me as “Anti SF’s heroically voiced Mark Webb”. That’s a lot to live up to!
Thanks to Mick for the chance to read his story and I hope he is not disappointed with the outcome!
The host of the radio show, Nuke, begins to read Nicole’s bio at about the 4 minute 30 second mark, and my narration begins at about 5 minutes 15 seconds.
I enjoyed the story and had a lot of fun recording it. My thanks to Ms Rendall, it is always a bit nerve wracking to try and do justice to someone else’s creative endeavour. Hope she isn’t disappointed!
Details of this and my other publications can be found on my bibliography page. Don’t get too excited – the list is distressingly brief so far.
That’s three publications so far. My bibliography page seems positively full! Many thanks again to Ion and the group of people that volunteer to help out with Antipodean SF.
It is very exciting to have a second story published – if for no other reason that I can start to tell myself that the first publication was not a complete fluke! Many thanks to Ion for giving me the opportunity.
But yes, this also means that I need to record another reading for the radio show/podcast. Don’t worry, you’ll get used to my voice eventually.
I also recorded a reading of Shipwrecked for the AntiSF radio show, which will be broadcast some time in January. I’ll post again once I know exactly which episode.
I’ve chosen the purist (speculative fiction) genre challenge, and the Miles challenge level (i.e. read 6 books, review 3). In the back of my mind, I’m hoping I might get closer to the Franklin-fantastic challenge level, but I am aware that my day job and life generally can often get in the way of me reading as much as I’d like.
I’m not sure of exactly what my six books will be, but they will likely include:
You can find all my reviews for the challenge here.
Some information from the challenge website follows.
Objective: This challenge hopes to help counteract the gender bias in reviewing and social media newsfeeds that has continued throughout 2011 by actively promoting the reading and reviewing of a wide range of contemporary Australian women’s writing.
Challenge period: 1 January 2012 – 31 December 2012
Goal: Read and review books written by Australian women writers – hard copies, ebooks and audiobooks, new, borrowed or stumbled upon by book-crossing.
Genre challenges:
Purist: one genre only
Dabbler: more than one genre
Devoted eclectic: as many genres as you can find
Challenge levels:
Stella (read 3 and review at least 2 books)
Miles (read 6 and review at least 3* )
Franklin-fantastic (read 10 and review at least 4 books)*
* The higher levels should include at least one substantial length review