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[adelaidesean]

Short Trips: Destination Prague, the Doctor Who anthology with my story in it, is coming out in May. And I am appropriately excited (that is to say: as giddy as a loon).

I've been a fan of Doctor Who ever since I was, well, a lot smaller than I am now. I have wanted to write for the franchise almost as long as I could hold a pen but never tried it before for several reasons. Fear was the main one: that I'd fail to do it justice. There's only one thing worse than going through life without writing for Doctor Who, and that's writing badly for Doctor Who. That I was able to write for my favourite Doctor (Pertwee) in the period of my choice (between Jo Grant and Sarah Jane Smith) made this opportunity particularly hard to pass up.

"Midnight in the Café of the Black Madonna" is only the second new short story I've written in six years. Will it do as well as "The Seventh Letter", which won the Aurealis Award for Best Short Story earlier this year? Kate Orman and Jon Blum's excellent Doctor Who novella Fallen Gods won the AA for Best SF Novel a few years back, so anything is possible.

Anyway, the collection is going to rock, edited as it is by Steve Savile and containing a veritable esky of Australians (Lee Battersby, Stephen Dedman and Rob Hood) plus a bunch of Big Names from OS too. The cover is beautiful so that's another reason to buy it, if you need more convincing.

Wait. What am I saying? Here's the Amazon link.

It's great to live in a world where Doctor Who is cool again.

Comments

[angriest.livejournal.com]

grumblegrumbleseetheswithjealousygrumblegrumble

[ladnews.livejournal.com]

"See the swit. Hje a lousy."

I feel as though I've just been insulted by the Swedish chef. :-)

(If it makes you feel any better, I am consumed by envy of anyone who can draw.)

[angriest.livejournal.com]

I seethe with jealousy in a *loving* way.

[ladnews.livejournal.com]

Well, that's all right then. :-)

[stephen-dedman.livejournal.com]

Hey, you went to Prague! All we could do was fantasize about it!

(and many thanks for your help, too!)

[angriest.livejournal.com]

Haha haha I did!

[murasaki-1966.livejournal.com]

Congratulations. And one day jack_ryder and I will get to Prague.

[ladnews.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I am hopeful too. (Don't tell anyone I did all my research via the Internet!)

[gloripebbles.livejournal.com]

Oh joy. Another book for the house. I'm so lucky.

Sean, I'm glad you get to be giddy & possibly giggly as a schoolgirl ;) I just have to live with one who is erm, telling me regularly of when it's coming out, who is in it, what is the what *sigh*. Apparently my other half is not surprised by your selection of Dr. Me, I have no idea what either of you are going on about.

How did I get caught in the vortex of Who?? Not just that, we also now as of today own COMPLETE series of Century Falls & Dark Season.

He gets Russell. I get Joss. It's a happy divide :)

[drbob00.livejournal.com]

Wow. DrWho were the first books I really kicked into. At age 9 "Web of Fear" was the first book where I didn't make it out of the library without finishing :) I think my collection of the paperbacks topped 100 at one stage. Very very cool Mr Williams sir ;)

[ladnews.livejournal.com]

DrWho were the first books I really kicked into.

Me too. "Web Planet" (aka "The Zarbi") was the first story I ever read featuring the Doctor, and I loved it. I still have the same copy, even though the spine disintegrated long ago. And I have all the others too, around 90-odd. As I was packing up up my bookcases recently, I considered disposing of them, but knew I'd never be able to. As my short story in this collection proved, you never know when they'll come in handy...

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