Creative Troublemarker. Mum. Geek Whisperer. PR wizard. Journalist. Clutz. Translator. SF fan. Activist. SFera member. Breastfeeding nut. Conrunner. Author.
Free fiction.
This category started as a GUFF fundraiser. I wanted to present European fandom and European genre authors in Australia and New Zealand; and vice versa. The plan was to beg the generous help of numerous authors to give permission to distribute some of their stories for free through my blog for a limited time. It did not work perfectly – back then, people were much more willing to pay for physical stories than for online fiction.
Today, I use the blog to publish some pieces of my own, for a limited time.
When you dive into another person’s fiction so deeply that you feel their characters as if they are of your own making, or, if not that, then at least as if you can move them outside boundaries that media like television imposes on them, then you’re a bit like a mad woman, a crazy old […]
Read More Reading fan-fiction (and sometimes, more often, writing it)Parsek is the fanzine produced by the SFera society, the oldest SF society in former Yugoslavia. It this capacity, it stands for PARadoxal SECular bulletin of the Society. At SFeraKon, there is a Special issue of Parsek featuring the year’s SFERICA winners in the literary categories. The SFERICA art categories get an exhibition of their […]
Read More Free Croatian SF Fiction online: ParsekThe Croatian science fiction scene is lively and diverse, as I have been proudly telling Australian fans at cons and club meetings. Despite the seven annual cons and two specialized festivals, there are no SF writers in Croatia who make a living writing fiction. This is less weird in Australia than I thought it would […]
Read More Free Croatian SF fiction online: EridanThe Ditmar Award would be the equivalent of the Croatian SFERA Award, if it were merged with European Science Fiction Society Awards. Kind of. The wikipedia entry equates it with the Hugo, and it is in as much as there is voting going on.
Read More Ditmar Awards 2013My parents had this huge bed which had a radio in the headboard. On Sunday morning, I would lie in with Mum and listen to plays based on fairy tales. This was not enough, of course, so I soon had cassettes. So I fell in love with radio drama at an early age. Later, there […]
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