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Ross Hamilton
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Friday, 11 May 2012
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first published on www.orbitbooks.net and reproduced with permission
There are authors who chest thump about military experience (the same way guys buff their muscle-cars) and then claim this experience is why their military science fiction is better than the other guy’s (or girl’s). Me? I drive an old Toyota pickup, which hasn’t been washed in donkey’s years, that’s missing one hubcap, and which shimmies at sixty because one rim is bad. It’s a great car, though. Much more useful than a Camaro, that truck carried me across the country twice, hauled just about everything...
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 Nicole Murphy Nicole Murphy has been a primary school teacher, bookstore owner, journalist and checkout chick. She grew up reading Tolkien, Lewis and Le Guin; spent her twenties discovering Quick, Lindsey and Deveraux and lives her love of science fiction and fantasy... |
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 Nyssa
Alan Baxter is an Australian author with a range of works under his (black) belt, short stories, novels, dark fantasy, horror, thriller. He also runs his own press, Blade Red, and with David Wood runs ThrillerCast podcast. Follw him on his website, twitter or facebook.
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 Ross Hamilton The following was first published in ACT Write, the newsletter of the ACT Writers Centre and is reproduced with permission. While the original piece was published under my name - Ross Hamilton - ACT Writers Centre Communications Officer, Kimberley Gaal,... |
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 Jon Page
The decision by RedGroup, who run the Angus & Robertson chain of bookstores and Borders Australia, to go into voluntary administration has put a lot of focus on the challenges that all booksellers face. While there were many internal factors that contributed to RedGroups’s problems there were also external factors that all booksellers are currently grappling with.
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