WHILE I WAS SLEEPING....

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“I love a sunburnt country,

A land of sweeping plains.

Of rugged mountain ranges,

Of droughts and flooding rains.”

                                     Dorothea Mackellar.

“Well I’m from the Queensland plains,

Where the girls and the grass are scanty;

Where the creeks run dry,

Or ten foot high,

And there’s either drought or plenty!”

                                    AB Patterson.

Hi ho Oz, 
                 the bits that didn’t wash away, blow away or burn. 

Thoughts still with the bits that did.

While I was sleeping –

At Novelr Eli has been watching the news and reassuring concerned followers about the progress of Pandamian. Go hard, chaps.

Moxie Mezcal has been renovating.

Check out the new season’s punk-as-fuck artscape at Moxie Mezcal.com.  The season of change has rolled right across the spectrum of Moxie’s endeavours – you can gather all the details at the blog. There is a new tumblr link for followers of punk consciousness propaganda; and for all of you who love Moxie’s fiction, there is a special gift waiting for you when you sign onto the mailing list before Feb 14.

Page99 Test continues with their reform programme. Recommendations from readers regarding context have been met with the application of a ‘back-page blurb’. Authors can now give their readers a little more insight into the world they are peeking at through page99. A great addition. If you haven’t been to the site for a while, remember the fiction is renewed each month, so there will always be something new to browse and new authors to discover.

The wonderful folks at YZW are out in force again this month, with a number of shorts appearing in Quiet Riot Girl’s online anthology, Games Perverts Play. Dan has links on the Year Zero Writers website, or go on over to GPP, and check out everything QRG has on offer.

On the Web Ficiton Guide Forums, Chris has put forward the idea of a permanent webfiction archive as a possible answer to the ephemeral nature of digital fiction. If you find a masterpiece, get the word out [and buy yourself a copy of those words]. Like a 1984 news story, they can vanish into the ether without leaving a trace!

And also, review! Yet again the call is out for readers who love to read, to take a chance and review. If you love the webserial you read each week, then sign on to the WFG and leave your yeeha! Or your Grrr. Or your meh, :\. For authors who already use the WFG service freely, Chris has offered to link your latest update to your review of listed work. Go on. Do it. You know you want to.

At fluffy-seme IsaK has re-opened with an idea designed to put an end to feedback begging. There is a simple 5 point rating system available as you go. Check the details at ErgoFiction or at fluffy-seme.

PIXELNYX has posted the last chapter of Sense of Commitment. You don’t need to be a FF fanchild to enjoy this ‘interim episode’. If you won’t read fanfic, then do do do read through the poetry and shorts. You’ll thank yourself for taking the time.

At Muse's Success, Chris has been tweaking the ratings and tidying up code. Check the blog for details.

You can still take part in the ABC Indie Reading Challenge.

Just follow the alphabet to read 24 works of indie fiction in 2011. Skip any two letters you dinna care for, and choose two stories per month. Easy. You can do it with your pants down. If you sign up and review each story, you will get to be famous. True story.

And of course TA DA!!!!

A.M. Harte has released her collection of shorts.

Introducing Hungry For You, a haunting speculative fiction short story collection.

This is the result of hours of experimentation in the  kitchen living room with only two ingredients: zombies, and relationships.

Are you curious to discover the results? Trust me; it tastes better than kidney beans. 

Grab a copy today from Kindle (US) or Kindle (UK)! (Other retailers to follow.)

Go read all about it.

 Some praise from Gabriel Gadfly:

Review:

“The first story, Promises, is a solid step into a world where 
love persists — or is perverted —
beyond death, 
and I’m looking forward to reading through the rest.“
— Gabriel on GabrielGadfly.com

Here’s a teaser –  Family Matters.

Chin up OZ cobbers, this too shall pass.

Au revoir.

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