Garth Nix

Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more.

There is something about cold and heavy rain that suggests to me I should take up my hat, cloak and staff to begin an arduous journey to bring warning of a great evil. Such travels never begin on sunny days.

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Australian brushturkey - Wikipedia

Though I see from this they are now not uncommon in Sydney. I’ve only ever seen them in Queensland before, in the bush or bush adjacent semi-rural properties.

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Urban Scrub Turkey sitting on a fence rail outside an apartment building

Snufkin and I encountered a scrub turkey yesterday on Bronte Rd, very exciting for the dog and a surprise to me. Never seen one this far south or in the city.

No, it was a private house on AirBnB, near West Kington, on Broadmead Brook. Actually the holiday house of a film/tv star, which was a surprise (that they let it out).

Donate to Fantastic Fiction reading series at the KGB Bar, organized by Matthew Kressel Fantastic Fiction at KGB is a monthly speculative-fiction reading seri… Matthew Kressel needs your support for Fantastic Fiction reading series at the KGB Bar

I've never made it to Fantastic Fiction at KGB, but I know everyone loves them, and I hope one day a NYC trip will align and I can get to one. In the meantime, I've donated to help make sure it keeps going, you might want to do the same.

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I remember the already highly finished sketch for this cover coming through the fax machine (a long time ago, 1995). I was waiting for another entirely unrelated fax, I saw this cover slowly emerge and couldn’t believe how great it was, even though I did know the Dillons were amazing artists.

A big day at the #willoughbyliteraryfestival with @garthnix.bsky.social @bothersomewords.bsky.social @jeremyszal.bsky.social and more!!

On my way to Chatswood for the Willoughby Literary Festival. Keynote at 10am!

I usually say every new piece of work gets you another spin of the wheel, but with whisky taken, who knows 😀 And what you can win includes positive chances for old works, not just a good outcome for the new one. And everything we do to help books shifts the odds very slightly, but better than zero.

Keynote speaker: Garth Nix Garth Nix will share his experience of levelling up as a speculative fiction author, followed by a Q&A.

I'll be giving the keynote talk for the Speculative Writing in Focus day of the Willoughby Literary Festival, Saturday 26 July at 10am. It's free, but you need to register. There will also be a Q&A and a signing and more good stuff throughout the day.
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Keynote speaker: Garth Nix Garth Nix will share his experience of levelling up as a speculative fiction author, followed by a Q&A.

I'll be giving the keynote talk for the Speculative Writing in Focus day of the Willoughby Literary Festival, Saturday 26 July at 10am. It's free, but you need to register. There will also be a Q&A and a signing and more good stuff throughout the day.
libraries.willoughby.nsw.gov.au/Eventbrite/K...

Poetics of Loss: John Masefield’s The Midnight Folk and British Fantasy in the 1920s The close of the Great War saw an astonishing eruption of fantasy fiction written in English; above all fiction by women, or fiction by men about women, as if the appalling loss of male life in Fla…

I couldn’t remember where I first read that speculation, just did a search and it was from this excellent piece by Rob Maslin thecityoflostbooks.glasgow.ac.uk/poetics-of-l...

I love that she was probably the inspiration for Sylvia Daisy Pouncer in John Masefield’s THE MIDNIGHT FOLK.

Farmhouse in North Somerset.

View from farmhouse in North Somerset to brook running alongside property

It isn’t necessary to visit real places to draw on them for fiction (imagination is a powerful tool), but it can be inspirational and handy! This is the farmhouse and brook near Bath I used for Susan’s house in THE LEFT-HANDED BOOKSELLERS OF LONDON. We stayed here for a week after Christmas in 2018.

Congratulations to everyone shortlisted in the World Fantasy Awards! A particular hurrah to Australian @julietmarillier.bsky.social for the Lifetime Achievement award!

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Congratulations, Lev!

Congratulations to you and @maryrobinettekowal.com !

"Oh, an em dash—"
"Yes, I often see them about the place," interrupted Bill. He was reading a book—a novel about vampiric pseudo-sentients—and didn't look up from it to reply.

I don’t usually answer story-related questions as I think explanations lessen the narrative effect and remove part of what makes things interesting for readers. I appreciate you thinking about it, though. Sorry!

All of these things! (There are six books in all, by the way.)

Hi. Thanks for reading. I’m afraid I don’t answer questions of this kind as I think it is better for readers to find their own answer (or not). Often explaining stories removes their power.

a man in a red hat stands next to two women Alt: Christopher Lee as Rochefort, Nicole Calfan as Kitty, Faye Dunaway as Milady in Richard Lester’s THE THREE MUSKETEERS (1974). By far the best film adaptation of the book, screenplay by George MacDonald Fraser

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Wars, Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, or Marvel

Snufkin the dog caught as he goes for a face lick to remind me it is his dinner time.

Snufkin has no problem telling me to my face (literally) that it is dinner time.

Happy anniversary! Two months ago my wife Anna and I spent a wonderful week in Venice for our 25th wedding anniversary (an easy choice as it was immediately following the Bologna Book Fair). We crossed the Scalzi bridge at least half a dozen times.

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The Many Worlds of Andre Norton - Wikipedia

“On Writing Fantasy” in en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man... but I read it in the Daw paperback reprint called “The Book of Andre Norton”

I just bought my fourth copy of THE GLASS HARMONICA by Barbara Ninde Byfield, to give as a present. I didn’t have a copy when I wrote SABRIEL (I couldn’t find one until 1996, I first read about in an essay by Andre Norton in the 70s) it would have been handy for the entry on bells!

Cover of Frogkisser! by Garth Nix A shades of green cover has drawings of frogs leaping amongst lily pads. The exception is a yellow one wearing a crown. Title and author are in white script. Cover text reads "Wise and wondrous - a beautifully told romp." -Holly Black, Author of Doll Bones Frogkisser! by Garth Nix

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A princess quests for the ingredients to undo a spell that turns people in to animals as her increasingly evil stepfather keeps using it on his enemies.