{"id":201,"date":"2012-05-28T13:18:38","date_gmt":"2012-05-28T13:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ticonderogapublications.au\/index.php\/2012\/05\/28\/the-years-best-contents-announced\/"},"modified":"2012-05-28T13:18:38","modified_gmt":"2012-05-28T13:18:38","slug":"the-years-best-contents-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ticonderogapublications.au\/index.php\/2012\/05\/28\/the-years-best-contents-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"The Year&#8217;s Best Contents Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebooksonline.com\/catalog\/product_info.php?products_id=114\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ticonderogapublications.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/years-best-fantasy-and-horror-v2-slide.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"120\" align=\"right\" style=\"float: right; border: 0; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;\" \/><\/a>We&#8217;re really happy to be able to announce the final line-up of the second volume of <strong>The Year&#8217;s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Liz Grzyb and Talie Helene have compiled 32 fantastic stories and poems first published in 2011, from New Zealand&#8217;s and Australia&#8217;s finest writers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\">The contents are<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Peter M Ball &#8220;Briar Day&#8221; (<em>Moonlight Tuber<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li>Lee Battersby &#8220;Europe After The Rain&#8221; (<em>After the Rain<\/em>, Fablecroft Press)<\/li>\n<li>Deborah Biancotti &#8220;Bad Power&#8221; (<em>Bad Power<\/em>, Twelfth Planet Press)<\/li>\n<li>Jenny Blackford &#8220;The Head in the Goatskin Bag&#8221; (<em>Kaleidotrope<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li>Simon Brown &#8220;Thin Air&#8221; (<em>Dead Red Heart<\/em>, Ticonderoga Publications)<\/li>\n<li>David Conyers and David Kernot &#8220;Winds Of Nzambi&#8221; (<em>Midnight Echo<\/em> #6, AHWA)<\/li>\n<li>Stephen Dedman &#8220;More Matter, Less Art&#8221; (<em>Midnight Echo<\/em> #6, AHWA)<\/li>\n<li>Sara Douglass &amp; Angela Slatter &#8220;The Hall of Lost Footsteps&#8221; (<em>The Hall of Lost Footsteps<\/em>, Ticonderoga Publications)<\/li>\n<li>Felicity Dowker &#8220;Berries &amp; Incense&#8221; (<em>More Scary Kisses<\/em>, Ticonderoga Publications)<\/li>\n<li>Terry Dowling &#8220;Dark Me, Night You&#8221; (<em>Midnight Echo<\/em> #5, AHWA)<\/li>\n<li>Jason Fischer &#8220;Hunting Rufus&#8221; 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(<em>Daily Science Fiction<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li>Andrew J McKiernan &#8220;Love Death&#8221; (<em>Aurealis<\/em> #45, Chimaera Publications)<\/li>\n<li>Kirstyn McDermott &#8220;Frostbitten&#8221; (<em>More Scary Kisses<\/em>, Ticonderoga Publications)<\/li>\n<li>Margaret Mahy &#8220;Wolf Night&#8221; (<em>The Wilful Eye &#8211; Tales From the Tower<\/em> #1, Allen &amp; Unwin)<\/li>\n<li>Anne Mok &#8220;Interview with the Jiangshi&#8221; (<em>Dead Red Heart<\/em>, Ticonderoga Publications)<\/li>\n<li>Jason Nahrung &#8220;Wraiths&#8221; (<em>Winds of Change<\/em>, CSFG)<\/li>\n<li>Anthony Panegyres &#8220;Reading Coffee&#8221; (<em>Overland<\/em>, OL Society)<\/li>\n<li>Tansy Rayner Roberts &#8220;The Patrician&#8221; (<em>Love and Romanpunk<\/em>, Twelfth Planet Press)<\/li>\n<li>Angela Rega &#8220;Love In the Atacama or the Poetry of Fleas&#8221; (<em>Crossed Genres<\/em>, CGP)<\/li>\n<li>Angela Slatter &#8220;The Coffin-Maker&#8217;s Daughter&#8221; (<em>A Book of Horrors<\/em>, Jo Fletcher Books)<\/li>\n<li>Lucy Sussex &#8220;Thief of Lives&#8221; 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