Martin Livings

From girliejones...

Leading up the release of New Ceres Nights, Twelfth Planet Press are offering the anthology 2012 at the special price of A$16 to anywhere in Australia including postage or A$20 to anywhere outside of Australia including postage for all of March!

We want to get the word out so we're also offering a free electronic copy of the Aurealis Award nominated "Fleshy" by Tansy Rayner Roberts for every blog entry spreading the word about our 2012 Special Deal for March.

The special deal is available here.

Each of the stories in 2012 presents an original take on the imminent future of humanity. Each has something to say about who we are and who we might want to be. 2012 is both a call to imagine the future of the world and a call to create it.



2012 collects stories written by: Deborah Biancotti, Martin Livings, Dirk Flinthart, David Conyers, Simon Brown, Lucy Sussex, Tansy Rayner Roberts, Kaaron Warren, Angela Slatter, Ben Peek and Sean McMullen

2012 received an Honorouble Mention in the Anthology Category at the Aurealis Awards 2009.

“Fleshy” by Tansy Rayner Roberts, was shortlisted for Best Science Fiction Short Story, Aurealis Awards 2009

Simply blog this media release and comment here with the link to your blog entry and an email address for your free copy of "Fleshy" to be sent to you.

-- offer ends March 31, 2009 --

Finally finished Fantastic Wonder Stories, edited by punkrocker1991, today. It was both fantastic and wonderful, as befitted its title. Good stuff, Russ, and all contributors!

Now I'm working on 2012, edited by girliejones and benpayne. Only part-way into the first story by deborahb, and utterly loving it. It's a good excuse to avoid working on a story for markdeniz which is due in a couple of days.

Uh... how did I end up with more editors than writers on my LJ F-list? :)

They just keep on coming, don't they? chuckmck has reviewed 2012 HERE, and says lovely things about the antho in general:

Anthologies are a little like TV sketch-comedy shows, in that you generally end up with a couple of truly magnificent offerings, a bunch of fairly average pieces, and one or two clunkers. That said, 2012 seems to be the anthology that bucks the trend. It’s magnificent from beginning to end, with each and every story a gem in its own right. My prediction: we’ll be seeing a fair swag of specific awards for 2012 and its contents over the next year.

He also mentions my story, "Skinsongs", amongst his favourites of the antho, which makes me squee, just a little, quietly, because I'm at work:

‘Skin Songs’ by Martin Livings; a nasty little tale which taps into every generation’s distrust of new musical styles. And with car crashes, vomit-chokings and pill-poppings being ‘so yesterday’, how will the pop stars of tomorrow punch their tickets to Rock ‘n’ Roll immortality?

*squee*

So, girliejones, benpayne, you think you done good? :)

What are you all standing around here for? Get out and buy the damn thing!