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Ace will begin publishing a solo series from Sean in 2007. "Astropolis" will be his first work in space opera without regular collaborator Shane Dix, and his first solo science fiction novel since The Resurrected Man. The proposed titles are Saturn Returns, Earth Ascendant, and Increasing in Light. Alongside a YA project (watch this space), the ongoing Books of the Cataclysm series, work on a Masters of Creative Writing, and a possible move to Japan, this makes for interesting times ahead.

The Crooked Letter has won the Ditmar Award for Best Novel, announced at Thylacon in Hobart over the weekend of 11-12 June. This is Sean's fifth Ditmar Award. It is also the first time that he has won both Ditmar and Aurealis Awards for the same book, and the first time in the history of Australian SF&F that a fantasy novel has won both. The only other authors to win both are Damien Broderick and Greg Egan, putting him in excellent company. The Crooked Letter will be published by Pyr in the US next year. (In the past Echoes of Earth, Orphans of Earth, The Sky Warden & the Sun, The Storm Weaver & the Sand, The Dying Light, The Resurrected Man, Metal Fatigue, and The Unknown Soldier were all nominated for both Ditmar and Aurealis Awards. See here for more information.)

Sean has been invited to be Australian GOH at the Australian National SF Convention (Conjure) in April 2006 alongside international GOH Cory Doctorow, guest editor Jonathan Strahan and toastmaster Kim Wilkins.

Sean's name has appeared on The Celebrity Atheist List alongside such luminaries as Joss Whedon, Keanu Reeves, Isaac Asimov, and Barry Manilow.

The Resurrected Man is released in a beautiful hardcover in the States, courtesy of Pyr. Reviews are good: see scifi.com, SFSignal, Bella Online, Agony Column, and Pyr.

Sean has commenced his Masters in Creative Writing at Adelaide University. Concurrently, he is working on The Hanging Mountains, the Third Book of the Cataclysm, and a couple of other projects--details to posted here in the future.

The Crooked Letter has been nominated for a Ditmar Award in the category of Best Novel. Sean is also nominated for a Best Professional Achievement award (for The Crooked Letter and "efforts in teaching"). This brings the total of Sean's Ditmar nominations to 14 (he has won four times in the past). Results will be announced at Australia's 44th National SF Convention, Thylacon, in Hobart this June.

Sean is currently in the process of boxing up his manuscripts for donation to the Fryer Library at the University of Queensland (see photo, right). Update: boxing complete and mss donated. The reclaimed storage space is very welcome.

The Crooked Letter wins the 2004 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Novel.

Clarion South week one finished. Click here for pictures.

Follow the link to read a blurb for The Blood Debt.

Fans of The Unknown Soldier (and Evergence) will be interested to see the art by David G Williams relating to John Nine and Megan Moroney (a.k.a. Adoni Kain and Morgan Roche) for a comic book version of the novel that sadly never eventuated. See here for a glimpse of what might have been.

Re-titling of future Books of the Change: Chimaera becomes The Blood Debt. [more]

Review co-written with Kim Selling of China Miéville's Iron Council available at Internet Review of SF.

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