Christmas. Ho Ho Horror…
Coming in December. And oooh, looksee, isn’t it just December. The Australian Literature Review’s new Christmas Horror anthology, Ho Ho Horror, is now released, so you can all go buy it in Print or ebook version. Aren't you excited?
Read MoreWriting with Baby. The Plan.
Apparently, when you’re pregnant, everybody in the entire world who’s already had kids develops a need to warn you in urgent, wide-eyed tones that “you won’t know what’s hit you, once the baby comes.” So being a new parent isn’t scary or anything then, I take it. Judging, that is, by the hushed tones of the warning-deliverers, who all speak in low, tentative voices as if they’re trying to avoid triggering flashbacks, war-veteran style.
Read MoreSF Site Reviews Dead Red Heart
Maybe it's a new writer thing. Maybe it's always the way regardless of how well established and how fabbo one's publishing history is. But when I read a good review, I do like to share it around with family, friends and the internet at large. So here you go, internet - a great review for Dead Red Heart by Mario Guslandi over at The SF Site which you need to go read right away: http://www.sfsite.com/12a/dr357.htm
Read MoreSurviving The End
The final contributor list for the upcoming post-apocalyptic fiction antho - Surviving The End - from Dark Prints Press has been announced and I'm on it. Yay. I do love a good post-apocalypse. Actually, the contributor list was released a handful of weeks ago, but I'm never first with the news, not even my own. And I wanted to wait until this month to tell y'all, because pre-orders are opening soon and I wanted to make sure you knew that. You know, so you can go buy it. Because this one is a goody. To rip words off the publisher's website, it's a "Grimm collection for a future age", collected stories, modern fables, tales all woven together by a central narrative thread, all focused on Surviving the End...
Read MoreRandom things they don’t tell you about being pregnant
Because Too Much Information is Never Enough - here are some random things they don't tell you about being pregnant...
Read MoreAurealis goes digital
For those who haven’t noticed – because I’m never first with news, you realise, and you should really have heard this elsewhere before by now - our premier Spec Fiction magazine here in Australia is going electronic. From now on, Aurealis is an e-publication.
Read MoreAbout Me
I‘m kahmelb. Well, that’s the handle you’ll most often find me using online, at least on those sites where I’m happy to be publicly identified and which wouldn’t make my mother blush. Much. In the world beyond cyberspace (because I’m told there is one), I’m better known as Kathryn Hore, a writer and photographer based in the Dandenong Ranges on the outskirts of Melbourne, Australia.