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The date and venue for the Aurealis Awards has been announced. Saturday 12 May at the Independent Theatre in North Sydney.

Excited much! I have just purchased a ticket to the Aurealis Awards. I couldn’t make it last year, so this is probably why I feel extra excited. I lurrve the Aurealis Awards and up until 2011 they were always held in BrisVegas, my home base, making it pretty easy to get to.

This year, come hell or high water – I’m going to SYDNEY. SpecFaction NSW are the organisers of this wonderful event and here is their latest press release. I can’t wait to see who will be nominated out of the wonderful work submitted from 2011. Oh – so now that I have a ticket, I had better look into flights and accommodation

PARTY TIME ♥ celebrating Australian speculative fiction and writerly things with my tribe, while making new friendships along the way.

If you have never been or heard of the awards before they are designed to recognise the achievements in Australian speculative fiction. As the list of finalist and winners grow each year it raises the profile of Australian writers in the genres of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. More info here:

Tickets to this event are limited and if you book before 15th March there is a discount click here for all the details

Midnight rambler excited and buzzy. Awards + Writers + Sydney = Bliss!

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Happy Australia Day…

Hope most of you had a dry and safe day. It’s been very wet here in Queensland over the past few days with many celebration/festivals cancelled and parts of NSW are having their fair share of the big wet! Hope it didn’t hamper too many celebrations and that you had a good day!

As I’ve talked about here , I listened to the Hottest 100 on Triple J and most of the songs I voted for came in and I actually enjoyed the countdown from 100-20 more than the top twenty itself (slightly disappointed). But I was really happy with the top 8. And of course I knew Gotye would get #1 – no surprises there! Well done to Wally and Kimbra. I thought it would be a battle between Gotye and Matt Corby but Matt came in at #3 and I was pretty stoked that The Black Keys made #2. Hoorah! Click here for the full list.

Anyway, that’s it for another year – until the album release. I love the Hottest 100 –it’s celebrated on Australia Day, it’s music, it’s Triple J and many of the artists are Australian and damn fine ones at that. And here’s No: 1 – Enjoy ♥

And just for something different here is Matt Corby’s ‘Like a Version’ of the #2 spot for ‘The Black Keys – Lonely Boy’. It’s not the pumpy, rock out version of the brilliant Black Keys but it’s pretty brilliant just the same. Let me know what you think…

Midnight rambler about to curl up with iPod and Triple J as have just received another one of those creepy, severe storm alerts for the northern suburbs and Moreton bay in which I live…Here we go again!

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