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The North Wind

โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ ** I received an ARC for an honest review ** Description Wren of Edgewood is no stranger to suffering. With her parents gone, it is Wrenโ€™s responsibility to ensure she and her sister survive the harsh and endless winter, but if the legends are to be believed, their home may not be safe for… Continue reading The North Wind

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The Dead Cat Tail Assassins

โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ Description The Dead Cat Tail Assassins are not cats.Nor do they have tails.But they are most assuredly dead. Eveen the Eviscerator is skilled, discreet, professional, and here for your most pressing needs in the ancient city of Tal Abisi. Her guild is strong, her blades are sharp, and her rules are simple. Those sworn… Continue reading The Dead Cat Tail Assassins

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Pride Anthology Update

https://videopress.com/v/YBnqGq9U?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&autoPlay=true&muted=true&persistVolume=false&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true I am pleased to announce that the Australasian Pride Anthology Rebels and Rainbows to be published by Deadset Press is going ahead. Iโ€™m excited to be co-editing this anthology to include LGBTQI, gender identities and ally authors from Australia and New Zealand to celebrate our diversity, community and continue to have our voices heard.… Continue reading Pride Anthology Update

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The Night Ends With Fire

** I received an ARC for an honest review ** โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ Description The Three Kingdoms are at war, but Meilinโ€™s father refuses to answer the imperial draft. Trapped by his opium addiction, he plans to sell Meilin for her dowry instead โ€“ but when she discovers that her husband-to-be is violent and ill-tempered, she decides… Continue reading The Night Ends With Fire

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Twice-Spent Comet

** I received an ARC for an honest review ** โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ Description The fall from hopeful revolutionary to prison laborer is a hard one. Ferโ€™s world has shrunk from the whole damn universe to this anonymous asteroid and the four other convicts who share it with them. Itโ€™s a fitting end, for someone who used… Continue reading Twice-Spent Comet

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Tales of the Wythenwood

โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ ** I received an ARC for an honest review ** Description Great Oak, an omnipotent power, hatches plans to crush dissent. Injured Desideria is helped by a mysterious creatureโ€”but what is its real intent? The Taker of Faces stalks the night for her next victim. Will this be the one that sates her need… Continue reading Tales of the Wythenwood

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Double Book Launch!!

I am thrilled to announce that I'll be in conversation with the delightful Leife Shallcross to launch of my collection Three Curses & Other Dark Tales and edited anthology Cursed Shards from IFWG Publishing of dark tales inspired by fairytales, folklore, magic mirrors, wicked Fae and Curses! Come celebrate noon 28th September at ANU Harry… Continue reading Double Book Launch!!

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After Midnight

โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ Description The Queen whoโ€™d once swept up the cinders is exiled to a distant wing of the palace, replaced by a younger, prettier girl who can bear her King an heir. Unwilling to accept the rapid deterioration of her power and desperately clinging to fraying strands of sanity, the exiled Queen journals the choices… Continue reading After Midnight

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Ditmar Award Nominations

The iconic Ditmar Awards are nominated and voted by the Australasian speculative fiction community. The list of eligible works for 2023 can be found here. Iโ€™m excited to have a lovely variety of nominated works. If youโ€™ve read and enjoyed any of my work and youโ€™re in the Australasian region, a vote would make my… Continue reading Ditmar Award Nominations