Talie Helene

Ticonderoga Publications, my publisher for The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy & Horror (co-edited with Liz Grzyb), are running a membership drive for their Facebook Group. Join and you could win a copy of Lisa L Hannett‘s Bluegrass Symphony! Publisher’s Weekly had this to say about Bluegrass Symphony: “Australian author Hannett’s first collection shows off her [...]

I’d like to direct your attention to the Halloween Fundraiser Auction to raise money for an Eye-Gaze Device to assist Rocky Wood communicate when Motor Neurone Disease (MND) eventually claims his ability to speak. Most people involved in the dark side of Australian publishing already know Rocky, and are aware of his accomplishments. To say [...]

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Media Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Halloween Fundraiser Dinner Dance The Australian American Association, Victoria (AAA) and the Australian Horror Writers Association (AHWA) are hosting a gala dinner dance to raise money toward an Eye-Gaze Device for prominent community figure Rocky Wood, who suffers from Motor Neurone Disease (MND). The AHWA, Australia’s peak literary association for [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Ticonderoga Publications are proud to announce the release of the inaugural ‘The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror’ anthology. Editors Liz Grzyb and Talie Helene have produced a collection of 33 excellent tales from some of Australia’s biggest names and emerging writers. Liz Grzyb says, “It is a wonderful reference, a snapshot [...]

Get the flash player here: http://www.adobe.com/flashplayer The Abandonment, Here I Die and Moredhel. Hammerheart – Metal Thunder Every Thors Day. Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne, 22 December 2005.  More about Hammerheart.

Heather Royston reviewed More Scary Kisses recently for the webzine She Never Slept. Royston seemed to dig the entire anthology, with the exception of Kirstyn McDermott‘s story Frostbitten. I actually really loved that story – it was one of the stories under critique at my first SuperNova meeting – but it is a doomed romance. [...]

Thirteen days to Halloween, and that’s how long you have to enter the Giveaway Competition over at Goodreads for your chance to WIN a copy of the groundbreaking first volume of The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy & Horror! About The Book 2010 was a great year for Australian fantasy and horror, with the World Science [...]

Edited by Liz Grzyb & Talie Helene The second in an ongoing annual series collecting the best fantasy and horror stories from the Antipodes. The deadline for submissions is 20 January 2012. Eligibility Guidelines Stories should have a listed author who is a citizen, resident or otherwise be recognised as having significant ties to Australia [...]

I had an excellent time at the Conflux Banquet, due cheifly to Gillian Polack transporting the senses through time with culinary art; our MC Jack Dann delighted all with his wit and sense of mischief. I had an OK performance; it was challenging with ear infection difference in my aural perception, a bit stressful because [...]