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Aletheia ARCs now available
ByJSB
The first review copies of my new novel Aletheia are available from Crystal Lake Publishing. Contact them, or me, if you’d like an advance read. Here’s a taste: Nose Island was a glacial booger sneezed up by Funes Lake, five miles to the north of town. Most people you asked swore that it had always…

Caught on the web
ByJSB
Submitting opportunity at Tor.: The mighty Vincenzo Bilof on This Is Horror. William Vandenburg’s Punctures at Pank The human body is generous. The hole healed over. In our remaining months, he referred to it as a puncture. I disagreed with him. I said that a puncture only goes in one side. A hole is all…
Only rock n roll
ByJSB
The great thing about having clever friends who send you their work is that you get to read it ‘in the raw’, half-baked and oozing with promise and hope and so much life that you will remember the joy of reading it in this state—as a .docx or an attachment or as half-toned pages smeared…

The Bridge Wins Ditmar Award for Best Novel
ByJSB
An incredible Conflux Weekend, culminating in being honored by the committee and voters with this wholly unexpected award. Grateful doesn’t begin to described it. I am totally floored. Congrats to all the finalists and winners, especially pals J.Ashley Smith (Best Novella) and the divine Kaaron Warren (Best Collection, Best Short Story). Aside from that, it…
Bob Hawke still rocks.
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He may have been a tad intimidated but Andrew Denton managed to keep his cool for most of a spellbinding confab with that wiliest of politicos—Bob Hawke. Hawke remained pretty tight-lipped throughout. Denton had to had to dig deep— in other words he had to hope his subject had soft underbelly and that it was…

Hands Across Australia
ByJSB
One of the astonishing pics taken by my friend Sarah Klenbort as she travels around this country with her family. Those shadows are camels, btw, on Cable Beach. Here are more, a freshie in the night, and rowing down the Drysdale River. More here. I’ll be visiting SK in Darwin in a couple of weeks,…