Welcome to 2018 – I hope your speculative fiction year is both happy and productive.<\/p>\n
I suspect I am not alone in using the new year to try and develop a sense of renewed purpose in my writing (including this website). Best of luck to everyone!<\/p>\n
Don’t forget that the Ditmar award nomination process is currently open<\/a>. The Ditmars are the Australian speculative fiction voted awards. If you loved a piece of Australian speculative fiction during 2017, why not get in and nominate it?<\/p>\n If you want to remind yourself of what happened in 2017, there is a very excellent Ditmar eligibility wiki kept here<\/a>.<\/p>\n I loved books like Nexus<\/em> by Deborah Biancotti, Margo Lanagan and Scott Westerfeld, Lotus Blue<\/em> by Cat Sparks, Crossroads of Canopy<\/em> by Thoraiya Dyer and Corpselight<\/em> by Angela Slatter in the novel section.<\/p>\n In the novella section, all the novellas by Tansy Rayner Roberts were excellent. If I had to pick one, I’d probably go with\u00a0The Bromancers<\/em> but it would be a line ball call.<\/p>\n There were some very excellent publications during 2017 – feel free to give a shout out to some of your favourites in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" <\/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":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[105,21,15],"class_list":["post-3083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ditmars","tag-news-2","tag-specfic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3083","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=3083"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3086,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3083\/revisions\/3086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}