Great inspirations and conversations at Conflux, and I won three Ditmar Awards! Best Novel, The Underhistory Best Collection, Calvaria Fell with Cat Sparks Best Fan Publication, Let the Cat in Podcast, with Aaron Dries and Joseph Ashley-Smith Not only that, I won an art award! Best amateur 3D!

Congrats to Aurealis Award Finalists for Best Anthology: CALVARIA FELL by Cat Sparx & Kaaron Warren. Salute to these two talented authors! https://smpl.is/a5nlb #CatSparks #KaaronWarren #CliFi #WeirdFiction #DarkFantasy #Horror @Cat Sparks @Kaaron Warren

Congrats to those on the 2024 Aurealis Awards Shortlist Congrats @tansyrr.bsky.social @fearofemeralds.bsky.social @kaaronwarren.bsky.social @catsparx.bsky.social @freyamarske.bsky.social @garthnix.bsky.social @shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social and all the finalists! file770.com/2024-aureali...

Wonderful conversation! Cristina is a deep reader and a lover of all things horror.

Check out “Woodmask” by @aptshadow (@aptshadow.bsky.social) from @UncannyMagazine (@uncannymagazine.bsky.social) “Bright Hearts” by @KaaronWarren (@kaaronwarren.bsky.social) from @reactormag, and more short fic recs from @paulaguran here -locusmag.com/2025/02...

The Underhistory by @kaaronwarren.bsky.social has just come out as a paperback. We're putting our own early proof up for grabs. Enter to win here: www.facebook.com/CrimeFiction... @viperbooks.bsky.social Draw closes 8am Sunday morning.

My stuff from last year in case you're voting for awards and need a reminder of stuff!

I don't think I mentioned it after reading, but THE UNDERHISTORY by @kaaronwarren.bsky.social was an amazing read I'd recommend to anyone who likes novels filled with equal parts wit and tension 🫣 Forever grateful to @jolietoomajan.bsky.social recommending it and introducing me to Pera Sinclair 😍

A florist becomes obsessed with the strange, haunting red flowers she buys from an equally strange old lady... "Bright Hearts" by @kaaronwarren.bsky.social is out now! Illustrated by Sonia Lai | Edited by @datlow.bsky.social reactormag.com/bright-heart...

A florist becomes obsessed with the strange, haunting red flowers she buys from an equally strange old lady... Next week. "Bright Hearts" by @kaaronwarren.bsky.social! Edited by @datlow.bsky.social | Art by Sonia Lai

Not the best image of my Ditmar Award, won along with @kaaronwarren.bsky.social for our collaboration Tool Tales last year. Cat Sparks delivered it to me just before I left Canberra for home.

The Narratives Library is a remarkable resource run by Karena Wynn-Moylan. Authors reading five minutes from their work and she has hundreds of these snippets. She recorded a lot of us at the recent Conflux Convention. I did a bit from The DeathPlace Set. www.narrativeslibrary.com/science-fact...

A message from the Universe? Delivery on the same day, one Under, one Over! Over London I read and loved, good job @georgepenney.bsky.social ! And The Underhistory I wrote!

"Shangrila was Rapptown, my childhood suburb. They changed the name because of the Rapptown Murders, fifteen girls killed and buried here, as if that would make it a different place somehow." Today's #sfstoryoftheday by @kaaronwarren.bsky.social in @pseudopod.bsky.social.

Just got another email for Ryan Churn, a name so perfect I used it for a porn-star wannabe in my Ditmar-nominated novellette Remnants and Bad Water!

I was looking for info on the band West Thebarton and found this article from 1891. It reads like the TOC of an anthology! "Mr Pilkington's Deceit. Mr Ferry's Spinaway. Mr Petrie's Pickpocket". https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/91535829

Drop some recs for scary stories from writers that hail from other countries. Our US stores are anemic for foreign horror. I’ll start: Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt Full Immersion by @manylittlewords.bsky.social Slights by @kaaronwarren.bsky.social Kin by @kealanburke.bsky.social

Looking forward to OzComicCon this weekend. We'll have copies of Vandal: Tales of Damage. Trying to think of some suitable swag...bits of broken glass? Small hammers? Bent nails?

It's a glorious blue sky day.