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Anywhere but Earth was blasted well into orbit yesterday at the Speculative Fiction Writers’ Festival at NSW Writers’ Centre. AbE authors Richard Harland, Alan Baxter and Margo Lanagan wowed the crowds with extracts from their stories, before some serious book buying. Thanks to curator Kate Forsyth and all the cool Centre staff. Thanks to Greenspace for the [...] As you see from our happy snap, the physical version of Anywhere but Earth has finally landed and is available for purchase anywhere on Earth. Just toddle over to our online store to get your order in. The ebook will be available very, very soon. Watch this space. And don’t forget the official launch at 1.15pm [...] It feels like it’s been a lo-o-o-ng time coming, mainly because it has, but all the grunt work has now been done, the book is at the printers (Australian and UK), the ebook is in beta testing, and we have our official launch extravaganza set for 5th November – what better time to set off a [...] Editing and publishing a book is kind of like climbing a mountain: one step at a time and keep your eyes on the summit. Well that peak is so close we can almost touch it. And the view is particularly lovely. Click through on the cover thumbnail to see the Anywhere but Earth cover in its full [...] Coming November 2011 The good people at futuristic website io9.com are well-balanced, right-thinking individuals. This is clearly shown by their recent rant about why we need more space adventure. It’s true that this year is the first since the 80s where there is no live action space-based TV drama on our screens (nope, Fallen Skies does [...] If you don’t know by know that our forthcoming anthology, Anywhere but Earth, has an impressive line up of authors, then you haven’t been listening! Kim Westwood, whose story ‘By Any Other Name’ graces more than a few of ABE’s massive 700+ pages, is enjoying critical success with her second novel The Courier’s New Bicycle. Here’s [...] Things are coming down to the pointy end now. We’ve just completed the structural edits, and authors are working through our comments and providing redrafted material. Next up will be a copy edit then layout and final proofing. The wrinkle is that with a paper book and an ebook slated for this title that’s twice the [...] coeur de lion is proud to announce the official line up for our forthcoming science fiction anthology Anywhere But Earth. Coming in late 2011, 29 original stories of humanity’s adventures out there, anywhere but Earth. Margo Lanagan ‘Yon Horned Moon’ Richard Harland ‘An Exhibition of the Plague’ Sean McMullen ‘Spacebook’ Lee Battersby ‘At The End There Was a Man’ Jason Nahrung [...] It has been a long, long haul. A twelve month reading period where we’ve received and read over 300 submissions from all over the world, but the dust is finally settling and we’re almost finalised our decisions. For statisticians among you the selection rate for stories submitted was a smidge under 9%, which is pretty normal [...] It’s just over a month to the close of submissions for our new science fiction anthology Anywhere But Earth, so to celebrate we’re revealing the first cover mockup to an anxious public, and we think it looks pretty cool. No doubt there will be tweaks and changes before final print, but the main elements are in [...] |
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