While I was offline… and OMG look at all the Conflux book launches!

Sean the Bookonaut has been blogging up a storm. Viz, an examination of Grimdark — a category of genre coding I hadn’t even heard of.

Angela Slatter is having a book, Narrow Daylight, published by my digital publisher Xoum — yay for being stablemates (and stable mates, though are we, as individuals, stable? argh!)

Lisa L Hannett has had a new essay published at This Is Horror, calling for a consideration of less used/abused things that go bump in the night, which in turn leads to an essay from James Bradley about the ever-evolving vampire metaphor.

Random House is taken to task for onerous conditions in its digital imprint Hydra, and makes amends, as reported by Locus.

A Brissie launch on April 9 for Charlotte Nash’s debut novel Ryders Ridge.

Dymocks ends its publishing effort, D Publishing, perhaps on the nose from the get-go due to a roundly criticised contract base.

Margo Lanagan makes the long list of the Stella Prize with Sea Hearts.

And I’ve sifted the program for Conflux next month to find the book launches — hold onto your hats!

Thursday, April 25, 5.30pm: The Bride Price, by Cat Sparks (Ticonderoga Publications)
Friday, April 26, 11am: The Bone Chime Song and Other Stories, by Joanne Anderton (Fablecroft); One Small Step (anthology, Fablecroft) and, a couple of Twelfth Planet Press titles TBC (thanks to Tehani for the heads up on these, below)
Friday, April 26, 3.30pm: Fragments of a Broken Land — Valarl Undead, by Robert Hood (Borgo/Wildside)
Friday, April 26, 6pm: Next (anthology, CSFG Publishing)
Saturday, April 27, 11am: Quiver, by Jason Fischer (Black House Comics)
Saturday, April 27, 1.30pm: Song of the Slums, Richard Harland (Allen & Unwin)
Saturday, April 27, 3.30pm: The Machine Who was Also a Boy, by Tom Dullemond and Mike McRae (?)
Saturday, April 27, 6.30pm: The Shadowed Throne, by KJ Taylor (Harper Voyager), and The Valley of Shields, by Duncan Lay (Harper Voyager)
Sunday, April 28, 11am: In Fabula-Divino (anthology, edited and published by Nicole Murphy with eMergent)

I’m not sure if it counts as a launch, but Angry Robot (whose supremo Marc Gascoigne is a guest of honour at the con) is having ‘an hour’ from 1.30pm on the Sunday. Angry Robot is chockers with Aussie writers (Kaaron Warren, Jo Anderton, Trent Jamieson, Lee Battersby …) so it’ll be bookish, whatever it is.

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