Martin Livings

Well, the Tin Duck nominations for 2006 have now been announced. I wasn't expecting much this year, considering I spent it overseas and didn't really put out much content during 2006, so I was very pleasantly surprised to find I've been mentioned four times, twice for my fiction and twice more for more generic group activities. The details are here:

http://ozhorrorscope.blogspot.com/2007/03/news-tin-duck-awards-voting-open.html

I'm up for the following categories...

Best WA Professional Long Written Work
Carnies, Martin Livings

Best WA Professional Short Work
‘Dwar7es’, Martin Livings, Ticonderoga Online Issue 9

Best WA Unpaid or Fan Production (any media)
The Horror Day Anthology, Martin Livings and Stephanie Gunn
Skeletor and Hordak, Martin Livings et.al

Incidentally, that last one really ought to be "Grant Watson et al", considering he invented the damn strip. If it wins, angriest, you're getting up on stage, as is cheshirenoir, and _fustian if he's there. And we're dedicating it to the only person really doing the strip lately, dalekboy, who's an honorary West Australian. :)

Thanks to everyone and anyone who nominated me, I'm chuffed to be mentioned! I guess that's another panel I'll have to turn up to at Swancon now... and, of course, congrats to all those on my f-list who've also been nominated, especially azhure, sharing the honours with me on the Horror Day nomination. She did most of the hard work on it, anyway!

EDIT - after writing this, I felt remiss not mentioning the people in my f-list who are also nominated. So big congrats to... *takes a deep breath* battersblog, stephen_dedman, battblush, <sjiraiyac, punkrocker1991, valeskah1, nullspace_feed, girliejones, angriest and mynxii, plus anyone else I may have inadvertently forgotten. Nice one, guys! It's win-win! :)

Well, maybe not the news, but on the ABC's Articulate site, and by association, their news site. :) See:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/

It might not still be there, though, so to the left there's a small version, and click it to see the full one. It's great to be raising the profile of horror in this country, though why they felt my face was the most appropriate to show I have no idea. Hmm... my face... horror... my face... horror...

Hey! That's an insult!

Oh, and if you haven't gone there yet...

http://horrorday.martinlivings.com

Hey everyone,

I just had a tiny brainstorm (appropriate for a tiny brain!). I'm putting a story online for Horror Day, and I know a lot of other writers aren't going to be able to take part personally, so what I thought I'd do is the world's fastest-compiled anthology.

Basically, if you'd like to participate, send me your short stories, one story each, preferably 1000 words maximum, along with maybe 25 words of bio, and I'll put as many as I can onto a web page and try and get it publicised a bit. The page will only be available on Friday the 13th, though thanks to time zones it'll be more than 24 hours of course! I'll need all the stories within the next 24 hours. The only rights I'd claim to the stories is for that 48 hour or so period of time. The only editing I'd do is basic grammar and spelling if necessary, due to the time constraints. And, of course, no payment!

I do wonder what we can throw together in such a short time? Send me your stories and we'll see. :)

Email stories to horrorday@martinlivings.com

EDIT - azhure has just jumped on board to co-edit. In the words of C. Montgomery Burns... eeeeexcellent... :)