Dark Matter #6 - eFanzines.com

197 Pages·2011·3.73 MB·English

Cover: Wolverine by JKB Fletcher
Dark Matter
Issue Six, Nov 2011
SF, Fantasy & Art
[email protected]
Dark Matter
Contents: Issue 6
Cover: Wolverine by JKB Fletcher 1
Donations 6
Via Paypal 6
About Dark Matter 7
Competitions 8
Winners 8
Competition terms and conditions 8
Ambassador’s Mission - autographed copy 9
Blood Song - autographed copy 9
Passion - autographed copy 9
The Creature Court Fashion Challenge Contest 10
Christmas Parade 11
Visionary Project 13
Convention/Expo reports 14
Tights and Tiaras: Female Superheroes and Media Cultures 14
#thevenue 14
#thefood 14
#thesessions 15
#karenhealy 15
#fairytaleheroineorfablesuperspy 16
#princecharmingbydaysuperheroinebynight 16
#supermom 16
#wonderwomanworepants 17
#wonderwomanforaday 17
#mywonderwoman 17
#motivationtofight 18
#thefemalesuperhero 19
#dinner 19
#xenaandbuffy 20
#thestakeisnotthepower 20
#buffythetransmediahero 20
#artistandauthors 21
#biggernakedbreasts 22
#sistersaredoingit 22
#sugarandspice 23
#jeangreyasphoenix 23
#nakedmystique 24
#theend 25
Armageddon Expo 2011 26
#thelonegunmen 27
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#doctorwho 31
#cyberangel 33
#bestlaidplans 33
#theguild 34
#sylvestermccoy 36
#wrapup 37
Timeline Festival 40
MelbourneZombieShuffle 46
White Noise 51
Success without honour 51
New Directions 52
Interviews 54
Troopertrek 2011 54
#update 58
#links 58
Sandeep Parikh and Jeff Lewis @ Armageddon 59
#Effinfunny 60
#5minutecomedyhour 61
#theguild 63
#stanlee 67
#neilgaiman 68
#eringray 69
#zabooandcodex 70
#theguildcomics 72
#thefuture 73
JKB Fletcher talks to Dark Matter 77
#inthebeginning 78
#sandiegoagain? 84
#artquestionsculture 85
#thefuture 88
#graffitiasart 89
Rowena Cory Daniells talks to Dark Matter 91
#dayjob 91
#booktrailer 92
#coverart 93
#booktrailers 95
#brisbanesupanova 98
#thejourney 98
#writersontherise 100
#creativejourney 102
#selfdiscipline 104
#workliferelationship 105
#selfpublishing 106
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#writingforchildren 107
#booksRCDwrote 108
#worldbuilding 109
#research 112
#thefutureofpublishing 113
#thefuture 114
Marianne de Pierres talks to Dark Matter 116
#becomingawriter 116
#authoreditorrelationship 117
#journeyintopublication 119
#writersgroups 119
#criticism 122
#winningawards 124
#publishednovels 124
#comicbook 125
#roleplayinggame 130
#YAbooks 130
#SheKilda 131
#worksinprogress 131
Ian Irvine talks to Dark Matter 133
#thejourney 133
#editing 135
#worldbuilding 138
#plotting 139
#characters 140
#otherbooks 142
#typecasting 144
#planningfuturenovels 146
#booktrailers 146
#dayjob 147
#novelinfluences 148
#relationshipwithfans 149
#thefuture 150
Richard Fairgray @ Armageddon 153
Marta Tesoro’s Fishbones 156
Book Reviews 157
Archangel’s Blade 157
Avenger’s Angel 159
The House Of The Wind 161
Angel Arias 163
The People Next Door 164
Bitten 166
Shipbreaker 168
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The Rare: Books One and Two 169
The Revisionists 171
The Steel Remains 173
Cold Commands 173
Emperors of Dreams: Some Notes on Weird Poetry 176
The Enterprise of Death 178
The Broken Ones 179
Theodore Boone: The Abduction 180
Path of the Stray 181
Side Jobs 184
Liesl & Po 186
Black Rain 187
Poirot and the Doctor 188
They Trade in Eyes 189
Comic Books & Graphic Novels 190
Becoming 190
Screen Stuff 192
The Haunters 192
Freedom 194
Dark Matter Volunteers 195
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Credits for dark matter
Editor:
Nalini Haynes Donations
Proof reading:
To date Dark Matter Fanzine
Edward Haynes
(DMF) has been running off
Contributors:
our household expenses,
Chris Hayes-Kossman
while DMF expenses continue
Elyse Taylor
to grow. A post box, mailing
Jade Hounsell
James Wallis books to reviewers, mailing out
Lloyd Penney prizes to winners, attending
Nalini Haynes conventions to report, purchase
Rebecca Muir
of a dictaphone for interviews
Steve Cameron
and so on... All these things cost
Cover Art & Design:
money. DMF would appreciate
Wolverine by JKB Fletcher
any donations, no matter how
Art:
big or small, to enable DMF to
Ian Gunn’s Silly Illoes used with
continue running.
permission of Krin Pender-Gunn
Images attributed where known
Marta Tesoro: Fishbones Via Paypal
Photography:
DMF has a paypal account, so
Various, attributed individually where
known, usually Nalini Haynes if not donors with a paypal account
attributed. can use the send money
Volunteers’ photos are courtesy of the option in paypal addressing the
volunteers.
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darkmatterfanzine@gmail.
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personal.
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About Dark Matter
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Competitions
Winners
The winners of the copies of Daughter of Smoke
and Bone were Jeremy Hamilton and Peter Marz.
Congratulations!
Thanks to Hodder for the free books.
Competition terms and conditions
The same terms and conditions apply to each of the following
items that have been donated to be given away:
Entries must be sent via email with one and only one book title in the subject
field.
Entries close on 31 December 2011.
Each email will be assigned a number in a list.
A random number generator will be used to select winners.
Numbers will be assigned to entrants based on the order of receiving their
emails.
One entry per person; if more than one entry per person is received, only the
firstentrywillbeeligible.
No correspondence will be entered into.
Thewinnerwillbenotifiedviaemail;withinsevendaysoftheemailbeingsent,
the winner must provide a postal address.
Postal address must be in Australia or New Zealand.
Failure to provide a postal address will result in a new winner being selected by
the above method.
Email addresses and postal addresses will only be used for the purpose of this
competition.
Subscription requests need to be sent separately to enable email subscription.
This competition has been organised in good faith, and will be managed to the
bestofmyability,howeverintheeventofdifficulty,noresponsibilityistaken.
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Ambassador’s Mission
- autographed copy
Trudi Canavan has kindly donated an
autographed copy of Ambassador’s mission,
thefirstbookinherlatesttrilogy.Toenterthe
competition, email darkmatterfanzine@gmail.
com with the subject ‘Ambassador’s Mission’.
Please read the section Competition terms and
conditions.
Blood Song - autographed copy
Rhiannon Hart has kindly donated an autographed
copy of Blood Song,thefirstbookinhertrilogy.To
enter the competition, email darkmatterfanzine@
gmail.com with the subject ‘Blood Song’.
Please read the section Competition terms and
conditions.
Passion - autographed copy
Random House has kindly donated an
autographed copy of Passion by Lauren Kate,
the third book in her Fallen series. To enter the
competition, email darkmatterfanzine@gmail.
com with the subject ‘Passion’. Please read the
section Competition terms and conditions.
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The Creature Court Fashion
Challenge Contest
Tansy Rayner Roberts, author of the Creature
Court trilogy, is offering to hand write sneak
peeks of Book 3 ahead of its February release
on postcards for everyone who enters:
Designordescribeanoutfitforoneofthe
characters of the Creature Court novels to
wear.
It can be in any medium, though mostly the
entries so far are in text or images. No one
hasyetsculptedanoutfitoutofpastabut
there’s still TIME. You can send your entry to
[email protected] [email links DO
NOT work, sorry, you will need to copy
and paste] (with a postal address for Tansy to send the postcard
to) and Tansy will post it with the others on her blog, tansyrr.com.
[URL links should work.]
You can take the challenge
asseriouslyorasflippantly
as you choose. Tansy looks
forward to seeing your
entries. Competition is open
until 15th December or until
she runs out of postcards,
whichevercomesfirst!
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