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adelaidesean) wrote2007-03-22 08:54 am
adelaidesean) wrote2007-03-22 08:54 am
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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.
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.
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