Creative Space - Martin Livings

[martinlivings]

Creative Space
Martin Livings

Welcome to my new writing space! We’ve only just moved into our our, so it’s all a little up-in-the-air for the moment still, but this will suffice for the time being. On my desk is my trusty notebook, which served as our one and only computer for the entirety of our year-long stay in the UK last year, and is still all I need for my purposes. The top two shelves of my bookshelf is mostly my “to read” pile, with a couple of my favourite non-fiction books added in for the hell of it. The bottom shelf is a bit of history, and contains my almost-complete collection of Eidolon magazines (I’m only missing 1, 2 and 4, from memory!), and some Aurealis as well, plus all my old Dowling and McMullen books from that era and other miscellanea. The magazine racks are stuffed full of mostly nineties horror magazines like Fangoria and Gorezone, perfect toilet reading material.

On the wall is the Alien head I brought back from the UK, bought at the Camden Stables Markets. It’s a miracle it survived the trip. I have to take it down and hide it when we have visitors, as the study is also the guest bedroom!

Not much writing has been done here yet, but NaNoWriMo is just around the corner, so I guess we’ll see if it works or not!

Martin Livings

Martin Livings is a Perth based writer of horror, science fiction and fantasy. His first novel, Carnies, was released in June 2006, was nominated for both the Ditmar and Aurealis awards, and won the Tin Duck award for long work from that year. His short works have been listed in the Recommended Reading list in Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, and have appeared The Year's Best Australian SF & Fantasy, Volume Two and Australian Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2006 edition, as well as other publications such as Eidolon, Aurealis, Andromeda Spaceways In-Flight Magazine, and anthologies such as AustrAlien Absurdities, Daikaiju and Robots and Time. He has also edited for Eidolon magazine, and with Stephanie Gunn put together the online Horror Day Anthology in 2006. This Creative Space project is his latest frivolous venture.

Deep down, though, he’d rather be playing guitar in a rock and roll band. Go figure.

http://www.martinlivings.com

Comments

[azhure.livejournal.com]

I hope there's a copy of Carnies on those shelves!

[martinlivings.livejournal.com]

Actually, there's not. I have two copies of the book, one is on a bookshelf in the loungeroom, and the other... uh, I'm not sure! :)

holy cow

[(Anonymous)]

Wow Martin, we have the exact same printer :P

cheers Peter van Maale