Snippets: Earthdawn Sale; Readings and Launches; Valley Micropress; Likeable Things

Earthdawn 15th Anniversary Sale

This month marks the 15th anniversary of the roleplaying game Earthdawn. To mark the occasion, publishers RedBrick have discounted the prices of Earthdawn products until 4 September, so you can get my novel Anarya's Secret for a little bit less until then (in hardback, paperback, or e-book via RPGNow or DriveThru).

Readings and Launches

From the social pages: here in Wellington, it's been the season of readings, launches, and both combined. I wasn't able to make the launch of Sue Orr's Etiquette for a Dinner Party: Short Stories, but did attend the Wellington launch of AUP New Poets 3 - Wellingtonian Janis Freegard is one of the three poets included in this volume, together with Katherine Liddy and Reihana Robinson, and Janis ran an enjoyable launch at Mighty Mighty.

I was also an apologetic no-show at the first instalment of the annual Winter Readings Series, which featured the launch of three books by Mark Pirie, including Slips which I reviewed a while back. There's an excellent report on Helen Rickerby's blog.

I'll be there next week, though, when Helen's new book of poetry My Iron Spine is launched with Harvey Molloy MC'ing, and the following week sees the launch of Michael O'Leary's Paneta Street.

I've had a sneak peek at My Iron Spine, and it's excellent.

And the launches don't stop there: Harvey Molloy's Moonshot is not far away from lift-off!

(Enough capital-centrism: there's lots of readings and poetry events right round the country, such as Kay McKenzie Cooke reports on from Dunedin.)

Valley Micropress

I took part recently in a Montana Poetry Day event in Upper Hutt, and organiser Tony Chad kindly sent me a copy of the "Poetry Olympics" booklet arising from the event, and also a copy of the magazine he edits, Valley Micropress. This is a monthly - that's right, monthly - poetry magazine which Tony produces. Subscriptions cost NZ $30 per annum, and contributions are mainly from subscribers, but also include other work at the editor's discretion. If you'd like to know more, please email Tony, tony.chad (at) clear.net.nz

Likeable Things: Second Instalment

maps, a poem by Jill Jones

The Bibliophilia shop, which sells the handmade books of Meliors Simms

Blackmail Press 22

Strange Horizons

Eating Greengages, a beautiful piece of writing by Fionnaigh McKenzie.

A few things I've learned about writing poetry, a very useful and interesting blog post by Janis Freegard.