For new readers of the blog, I am a minor contributor to the Galactic Chat<\/em> podcast<\/a>, which aims to interview the people that make up the Australian speculative fiction scene. The podcast is led by Sean Wright (who is also nominated for a bunch of other stuff around his fan writing), and also includes contributions from\u00a0Helen Stubbs, David McDonald, Alexandra Pierce and Sarah Parker.<\/p>\n In 2014 I conducted two interviews. The first was with Ion Newcombe<\/a>, the publisher of AntipodeanSF<\/em> (which recently published its 200th issue) and the second was with agent extraordinaire Alex Adsett<\/a>. I am very proud of both interviews – it was great to speak with such fascinating people\u00a0and I’d like to take the chance once again to thank them both for subjecting themselves to my incessant questioning!<\/p>\n The full Ditmar ballot can be found here<\/a>, and I’ve reproduced the list below (accurate as at 14\/2\/2014) with links to the embarrassingly few nominated books that I’ve reviewed on this site. I’d like to give a particular shout out to Sean Wright for his well deserved nominations,\u00a0fellow podcaster Helen Stubbs for her\u00a0Best New Talent<\/em><\/strong> nomination and other fellow podcaster Alex Pierce for her many nominations!<\/p>\n I should also note that I was interviewed for the 2014 Snapshot<\/a>, which is a very deserving entry in the\u00a0Best Fan Publication in any Medium<\/em><\/strong> category.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>Hi,\n Welcome to Mark Webb’s author website. At this point the site is rather sparse – I’ve only recently started writing and there isn’t a lot to show for it right now. You can check out\u00a0my biography<\/a>, see …<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[105,121,21,15],"class_list":["post-2662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ditmars","tag-galactic-chat","tag-news-2","tag-specfic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2663,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662\/revisions\/2663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Best Novel<\/span><\/h4>\n
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Best Novella or Novelette<\/span><\/h4>\n
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Best Collected Work<\/span><\/h4>\n
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Best New Talent<\/span><\/h4>\n
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William Atheling Jr Award for Criticism or Review<\/span><\/h4>\n
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