Monthly Archives: August 2016

Things have been a bit bonkers lately, with a heck of a lot going on at work and home. One of those things earlier in August was the Aust SF Snapshot, a (basically) biannual interview blitz where a bunch of us try to interview as many people in and around the Australian spec fic writing scene as we possibly can in a (basically) two week period. It’s been going for 11 years now, and from its humble beginnings with Ben Peek it now takes a big stack of us to take on a huge number of folk (almost 200 this year!). Loads of fun, but loads of work, too, especially when you’re the silly person who says “yanno, a website would be good…” and queues up all the posts! While still doing interviews too 🙂 Anyway, it was a good few weeks and kind of zapped my brain for any other blogging, but I thought I’d better do my round up before it became completely irrelevant – oh hello September, I see you around that corner there…

So, I undertook the following interviews, and was in return also interviewed by the excellent Alex Pierce (see my ramblings here):

1. Alex Adsett
2. Lee Battersby
3. Lindy Cameron (Clan Destine Press)
4. Stephen Dedman
5. Thoraiya Dyer
6. Richard Harland
7. Narrelle M Harris
8. Edwina Harvey
9. Erica Hayes / Viola Carr
10. Lian Hearn / Gillian Rubenstein
11. Andrea K Host
12. Amie Kaufman
13. Bren MacDibble
14. David McDonald
15. Claire McKenna
16. Meg McKinlay
17. Foz Meadows
18. Garth Nix
19. Stephen Ormsby (Satalyte Publishing)
20. Angela Slatter
21. Cat Sparks
22. Jo Spurrier
23. Suzanne J Willis

Also on the new website we have archived every single one of the previous five Snapshot projects, from Ben Peek’s first in 2005 right through to the present day, making one handy dandy repository of Australian SF history all in one spot. And it’s been catalogued at Pandora for posterity, which is awesome!

So there’s lots of other stuff going on, including a pending move interstate and job seeking and all that jazz, but right now I’m focussing on getting a book to print in time for Conflux and looking forward to a few social events with friends in the next month or so, including another quick trip to WA in early October for the WA Premier’s Book Awards ceremony – can’t wait!