Jennifer Rardin (1965-2010)

Jennifer Diana Rardin (28 April 1965 – 20 September 2010)

It was with no little dismay that I discovered this evening (via Smart Bitches, Trashy Books) that author Jennifer Rardin had died suddenly on 20th September.

Carrie Vaughn @ Galaxy Books, 19th Sept 2010

Carrie Vaughn

Urban fantasy author and creator of the Kitty Norville series Carrie Vaughn had a signing at Galaxy today, and I was there with a few books bought specially for the session (unfortunately you can’t get your e-book collection autographed) and prior permission to hang around and take an excessive number of photographs.

Charles Stross, Karen Miller and Kate Elliott @ Galaxy, 26 August 2010

Before the signing: Kate Elliott, Charles Stross and Karen Miller

When Worldcon comes to Australia, it brings with it all sorts of interesting and wonderful people, opportunities and things. And if you can’t make it to the convention in Melbourne, sometimes the attendees make a side trip (to Sydney, yay!) to do a signing in your favourite bookshop.

Yesterday, Galaxy Bookshop was graced by the presence of Charles Stross, Kate Elliott and Karen Miller.

Teresa Jusino’s Doctor Who commentaries

Writer Teresa Jusino has been posting a series of very interesting Doctor Who commentaries over at Tor.com. There is currently no post/series index over there, so I’ve created one:

The Beast Lord’s Ebook

Sweeeet!

Ilona Andrews‘ Kate Daniels series is written from, well, the POV of Kate Daniels. Kate has frequent (snarky, violent) encounters with Curran, the Beast Lord or leader of the Atlanta shapeshifters. So what does he really think of her?

Gordon Andrews occasionally writes scenes from Curran’s POV containing gems like this:

What could possibly cause a cat, a wolf, a hyena, and a middle-aged medmage honey badger to risk my wrath? I couldn’t figure out the what or the why, but I had a damn good idea of the who. Kate Daniels, professional fuck-up.

Kate short-circuits my brain. In my head we always have these clear coherent exchanges, but once we meet, what comes out it is, “Kate, do what I say or I’ll kill you.” Her default reply is, “Fuck you!” and we go downhill from there.

and occasionally posts them on the blog.

And Ilona has just announced that the first volume of the collected posts:
http://www.ilona-andrews.com/2010/07/12/on-beast-lords-web-presence-of
is now available as free downloads on Smashwords.

Multiple formats are available: HTML (for online reading), Javascript (for online reading), Mobipocket/Kindle, epub, Sony LRF, Palm, and plaintext.

Like I said: Sweeeet!

Oh, and thanks, Ilona and Gordon.