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Scorpion Girl to be released January 2025
The first one hundred copies ordered will also include a signed and numbered ex libris style plate, signed by Janeen Webb. We all have our demons. In SCORPION GIRL, women of all ages face theirs. Frombattlefields to bedrooms, in these stories nothing is what it seems: creaturesfrom myth, legend, history and literature rub shoulders with ordinary—andextraordinary—people. From ghosts to scientists, from eco-terrorists to timetravellers, these courageous women come face to face with the uncanny, thesupernatural and the bizarre. They meet the challenges with whatever they canmuster—from the casual bravery of…
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Author Talk for the Prom Coast Festival
Janeen will be giving an Author Talk for the Prom Coast Festival at the Foster Library on Saturday 11 March 11:30am.Bookings via Eventbrite.
Read moreStrip Mining the Archetype
Janeen has contributed a chapter—“Strip Mining the Archetype”—to a forthcoming volume: With Great Power: Leadership, Character and Conflict beyond the Multiverse. Edited by Jonathan Klug and Steven Leonard, the book is due for release from Casemate Publishers (USA/ UK) in 2023. This is the second volume in a series using science fiction to explore strategy and conflict in the 21st century. Janeen also contributed a chapter—“Are We Such Apostles of Mercy?”— to the first book, To Boldly Go, edited by Jonathan Klug and Steven Leonard, (Casemate, 2021).
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Fish Creek Children’s Festival of Stories
Janeen will be appearing at the Fish Creek Children’s Festival of Stories, to be held in Fish Creek on September 18th, 2022. At 1pm, Janeen will team up with Liz Farrell to offer a session on The Power of Magic: dramatic readings, interspersed with discussion and audience Q&A. After the event there will also be a book signing and photo op. The Festival runs from 10am to 6pm. For more information check the website: https://www.fishystories.org/janeen-webb
Read moreIf Only She Had Spoken Like A Lady
Janeen Webb was recently guest presenter for Women’s History Month, hosted by Gillian Polack. Janeen’s article, If Only She Had Spoken Like A Lady, is a response to the media storm that erupted when outgoing Australian of the Year, Grace Tame, refused to smile for the cameras. Janeen uses the history of feminist sf to take a hard look at the gender inequality that still persists in socially embedded expectations of “proper” behaviour for women in the public arena.
Read moreUpdate: The Five Star Republic
Well, it’s here at last – The Five Star Republic, part one of the City of the Sun series, has been released in Australia, New Zealand and the UK. It’s been a long road for us. Like all other writers, we’ve been heavily impacted by the pandemic. Our plans for face-to-face launches in Melbourne and Canberra were first put on hold, then postponed, and finally cancelled altogether in the face of lockdowns and State border closures. Even local events in Victoria have had to go on semi-permanent hold. So now Andrew and I…
Read moreWorld Fantasy Award Shortlist
The World Fantasy Awards Ballot for works published in 2014 has been announced, and Janeen Webb is shortlisted with her collection, Death at the Blue Elephant. The awards will be presented during the World Fantasy Convention, November 5-8, 2015 in Saratoga Springs NY. – See more at: LocusMag for the ballots
Read moreAnna Tambour reviews Death at the Blue Elephant
“Janeen Webb is Mistress of the Contemporary Exotic: These are tales to stir the brain and the passions, spiced with bitchy observation, chilling indifference, evildoers professional (and the merely talented), and mayhem galore. Gloriously adult, these stories will transport you – but they’ll never drop you home. And the cover by Nick Stathopoulos, with its bottomless cup of almost-hidden extras to discover, perfectly suits this sophisticated collection. Russell B. Farr also did a terrific job making it a stunningly beautiful book to have for one’s selfish self, & to give as a unique…
Read moreOn Locus’ recommended reading list
Death at the Blue Elephant is on the Locus Recommended Reading List. February Locus says: “Renowned Australian author and editor Janeen Webb’s Death at the Blue Elephant is an impressive collection of fantasies enriched by the writer’s experiences traveling the world.”
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