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showcases some incredible work ticonderoga editor russell b farr said . while his stories can be dark they also show an incredible respect for the human condition and each one enriches the reader russell b farr added . i m so pleased to work with ticonderoga on this book alan baxter said . i can t imagine anyone who would do a better job . it s really exciting to see so many years of my dark weird work collected like this . the sale was made via alex adsett of alex adsett publishing services . alan baxter is the author of the dark urban fantasy trilogy bound obsidian and abduction the alex caine series published by harpervoyager australia and the dark urban fantasy duology realmshift and magesign the balance 1 and 2 from gryphonwood press . his short fiction has appeared in the magazine of fantasy & science fiction beneath ceaseless skies daily science fiction postscripts and midnight echo among many others and more than twenty anthologies including the year s best australian fantasy & horror 2010 2012 and 2014 . he has been a finalist in the aurealis awards and a five time finalist in the ditmar awards . he won the 2014 australian shadows award for best short story shadows of the lonely dead and the 2015 australian shadows paul haines award for long fiction in vaulted halls entombed . ticonderoga publications is a multiple award winning independent press based in greenwood western australia . founded in 1996 in 20 years ticonderoga have published over fifty titles . crown shine is scheduled for publication in late 2016 . the collection will be available in limited edition hardcover hardcover ebook and trade editions . links alan baxter www.warriorscribe.com alex adsett publishing services www.alexadsett.com.au aurum we need your backing we ve set up a kickstarter to partly fund aurum a golden anthology of novellas . aurum is an anthology of awesome speculative novellas by some of australia s brightest talents . at this point we have locked in joanne anderton stephanie gunn angela rega lucy sussex and susan wardle and expect to have at least a couple more awesome names before we go to print . 3 april edit we are chuffed to be able to add juliet marillier to this star studded line up aurum will be approximately 90 000 words of exceptional original fiction all novellas more than 7500 words giving the writers space to develop stories and write at a length not always considered commercially acceptable . we re giving the writers an opportunity to tell the stories they want to tell and the space they want to tell them in . aurum will be edited by the a. bertram chandler award winning editor russell b. farr . aurum also celebrates the 20th year in publishing for ticonderoga . we started way back in 1996 and since then have produced over 50 titles . aurum was originally planned as our 50th title hence the name but a few other books came through and pushed it back a little . numbers aside aurum will still be our golden book . please check this out and back us at https www.kickstarter.com projects 499651181 aurum a golden anthology of original novellas add new comment the year s best kickstarter is funded a huge thank you to everyone who helped us reach our goal we re over the moon to have got there and are now looking at some stretch targets to pay writers and artists more . we re also a sfwa star project please consider backing us there s less than 2 weeks to go here s where you can find our kickstarter project . https www.kickstarter.com projects 499651181 the years best australian fantasy and horror 6 the project the year s best australian fantasy and horror is over 150 000 words of the best fantasy and horror fiction written by australians and new zealanders and published all over the world in 2015 . we ve already done this five times for the years 2010 2014 and we d like to do it again . in addition to the reprinted fiction the year s best australian fantasy and horror series features an extensive introductory essay on the annual state of the genre obituaries a recommended reading list and a list of australian and new zealand award recipients . it is the only volume of its kind being published in australia at present . how you help putting together a volume of this size usually featuring the work of more than 30 contributors is a big task for two editors and a small press . the year s best australian fantasy and horror series is an important work but it is also a considerable up front cost several thousand dollars of outgoings before a single cent comes back . we re doing this because we love australian speculative fiction we love books and we want to keep doing this as long as we can . we re in this for the long term but could use some help to keep this title going . please consider backing us https www.kickstarter.com projects 499651181 the years best australian fantasy and horror 6 add new comment the finest ass in the universe is locus recommended locus has announced its 2015 recommended reading list and we re incredibly over the moon that anna tambour s collection the finest ass in the universe has made the list and one of her original stories in the collection lab dancer made the list too you can buy this book at 20 % off until the end of february at the finest ass in the universe http www.indiebooksonline.com catalog product info.php products id 197 you can check out the full list of finalists at http www.locusmag.com news 2016 02 2015 locus recommended reading list add new comment congratulations to our 2015 ditmar award finalists the final ballot for the 2015 australian sf ditmar awards has been announced and we re very chuffed to be among the nominees a huge congratulations to kathleen jennings a hedge of yellow roses hear me roar best short story amanda pillar ed bloodlines best collected work kathleen jennings cover art bloodlines best artwork and good luck the results will be announced at the end of march at the australian national convention . you can buy these books at 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best anthology and good luck the results will be announced at the end of march at the australian national convention . you can buy these books at 20 % off until the end of february at hear me roar http www.indiebooksonline.com catalog product info.php products id 196 bloodlines http www.indiebooksonline.com catalog product info.php products id 204 the year s best fantasy and horror 2014 http www.indiebooksonline.com catalog product info.php products id 202 the finest ass in the universe http www.indiebooksonline.com catalog product info.php products id 197 you can check out the full list of finalists here https aurealisawards.org 2016 02 17 announcement 2015 aurealis awards shortlists add new comment the year s best kickstarter we ve set up a kickstarter project . https www.kickstarter.com projects 499651181 the years best australian fantasy and horror 6 we need your help to become the first australian focussed year s best speculative fiction anthology series to publish 6 consecutive volumes . the project the year s best australian fantasy and horror is over 150 000 words of the best fantasy and horror fiction written by australians and new zealanders and published all over the world in 2015 . we ve already done this five times for the years 2010 2014 and we d like to do it again . in addition to the reprinted fiction the year s best australian fantasy and horror series features an extensive introductory essay on the annual state of the genre obituaries a recommended reading list and a list of australian and new zealand award recipients . it is the only volume of its kind being published in australia at present . how you help putting together a volume of this size usually featuring the work of more than 30 contributors is a big task for two editors and a small press . the year s best australian fantasy and horror series is an important work but it is also a considerable up front cost several thousand dollars of outgoings before a single cent comes back . we re doing this because we love australian speculative fiction we love books and we want to keep doing this as long as we can . we re in this for the long term but could use some help to keep this title going . please consider backing us https www.kickstarter.com projects 499651181 the years best australian fantasy and horror 6 add new comment 20th year 20 % sale to commemorate our 20th year in publishing we ve taken 20 % off all of our paperback titles at indiebooksonline for the entire month of february check out our range get awesome new titles like hear me roar our feminist sf anthology edited by liz grzyb or classics like the award winning magic dirt the best of sean williams . check it out at indiebooksonline.com . add new comment ecopunk speculative tales of radical futures ecopunk speculative tales of radical futures edited by liz grzyb and cat sparks to be published by ticonderoga publications in 2017 human activity has forced the earth into a new geological epoch . by 2050 the world s population is expected to rise from the current seven billion to around 9.5 billion . the worst impacts will be felt by the world s poorest people victims of the developed world s excesses . the earth must brace itself for enormous changes in patterns of global temperature and rainfall significant sea level rise with huge effects on water and food security . engineers and industrialists are currently faced with the challenge of inventing new sustainable technologies and the means of implementing them technologies that may well improve