Better Phones - now available on phones

StarShipSofa has been invaded by kiwis this week. Tune in to hear Dan Rabarts' Paint by Numbers and my tale of running aliens, Better Phones. This means you can now listen to Better Phones on your phone when you go out running, which seems entirely appropriate.

Thanks to Tony, Adam and the rest of the sofa crew for letting a couple of kiwis fly on the Sofa. What? Course they can fly. Don't know where you heard otherwise.

StarShipSofa No.293 Dan Rabarts and Grant Stone

Regenerating

The most excellent people at Random Static have done it again. Regeneration: New Zealand Speculative Fiction II is now available for preorder. Twenty two tales of science fiction and fantasy you're not going to find anywhere else.

Featuring stories by Matt Cowens, Tim Jones, Mary Brock Jones, O.J. Cade, Grace Bridges, I.K. Paterson-Harkness, Kylie Thorne, Debbie Cowens, J.C. Hart, Jennifer Compton, Simon Petrie, Anna Smith, Rebecca Harris, Elizabeth Gatens, Jonathan James Todd, A.J. Fitzwater, Fran Atkinson, Anna Caro, Dan Rabarts, Lee Murray, Grant Stone, and Toni Wi. And how great is that cover by SJV-award winner Emma Weakley.

Come and say hi at the launch party: Friday 12th July, Comfort & Quality Hotel, Cuba Street Wellington, 6pm.

Did I mention you can preorder now?



 

Free reads!

A very late post here, but in case you didn't hear...

Two stories first published in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine have made this year's Sir Julius Vogel ballot in the short story category: 'Paint by Numbers' by Dan Rabarts and my own 'Better Phones'. ASIM have been kind enough to make both stories available as a limited edition ebook. Grab your copy here.

But that's not all! You can find links to read every work in the short story category (and extracts from some other categories) on the SFFANZ site here.

Words on the Wind

If you're in Auckland on March 7th, why not drop in to Mangere Bridge Library and let someone read you a story? 

For anyone in Auckland on March 7th, you are invited to a NZ Book Month event, put on by the Auckland branch of SpecFic NZ. It features a panel of published specfic writers, where each will give a short reading from their work followed by a Q&A session.

The panel so far is:

Grant Stone - SF short story writer extraordinaire and twice winner of the Sir Julius Vogel short story category

Grace Bridges - President of SpecFic NZ, SF novelist, and independent publisher of Splashdown Books and Waitemata Books ( NZ fiction)

Darian Smith - award winning short story writer of both fantasy and literary fiction

Elaine Smith - multi-media artist and author, she writes contemporary and SF short stories, as well as art works featuring a variety of media.

Lila Richards - dark fantasy novelist and medieval specialist (http://tinyurl.com/arzs8sk)

Come along for a great evening if you are interested in speculative fiction (Sf, fantasy, horror, and anything vaguely related), want to meet others with a like interest and listen to Auckland SpecFic authors. 

Place: Mangere Bridge Library, 5 Church Rd, Mangere Bridge. There is car parking right beside it, and a park for the kids to run around in just outside if you can't get baby sitters. 

Time : 6.30 - 8pm

Date: Thursday, 7th March.

To get there, take the first off ramp just past Mangere bridge when heading to the airport on the Southwestern motorway. If coming from the airport direction, take the Coronation Rd off ramp. The library is just behind the shops on the western side.