Narrelle M Harris: writer | editor | songwriter | crafter
Words are like oxygen
This week, the Improbable Press prompt drew a song out of me. (Check out the site and try the prompts yourself!) I’ve been thinking about werewolves a lot, for an upcoming story, and this is the lyric that happened. It might also apply to vampires, actually, but mostly it was written for a new werewolf. Yes, I have a melody […]
» Read moreIn a world where wings give everyone the freedom to fly, an artist born wingless uses her art to show the winged world the wonder of the ground. But when she meets a recently injured police officer who finds himself grounded, they will both learn that there is more than one way to soar. From 1 to 30 September, Escape […]
» Read moreB Cubed Press’s fundraising anthology Oz is Burning has been released, just a little behind its original timing to coincide with the NZ Worldcon! B Cubed commissioned the stories as a response to the devastating bushfires of February 2020 (how long ago that seems now) and a portion of the proceeds will be going to WIRES. Australian and New Zealand […]
» Read moreI wrote last week about the pleasure I’ve found in rediscovering poetry through Samuel West’s Pandemic Poems on Soundcloud. Spurred by those poems, I’ve also been delving into Australian poetry, partly because of the series of Quintette interviews I did early on in the pandemic. Among the books I bought or were sent to me, I have Jenny Blackford’s The […]
» Read moreEscape Publishing has put my wingfic romance ebook, Grounded, on special in Australia and New Zealand for the whole month of June 2020! About Grounded In a world where wings give everyone the freedom to fly, an artist born wingless uses her art to show the winged world the wonder of the ground. But when she meets a recently injured […]
» Read moreI grew up influenced by musicals, and that may be why I now write so many stories with music in them. As a child I learned piano and though that fell by the wayside – partly because my family kept moving house and moving the cheap old piano along with us was a bit of a palaver – I’ve always […]
» Read moreWhile the Branch and Root anthology has been delayed for various reasons, other anthologies are still being produced and I’m absolutely delighted to announce that I have a story in another new anthology: Oz is Burning. I don’t have a cover to reveal for it yet, but I can reveal the table of contents. It’s always flattering and marvellous to […]
» Read moreI’m so pleased to reveal to you the cover of the fifth and final novella of the Duo Ex Machina series, Little Star. Willsin Rowe has designed the covers for each of the novellas, and he’s brought us to the end with this delight. About Little Star Families can be thorny, especially when the closet’s full of skeletons. It’s 2019, […]
» Read moreToday I’m asking Donna Mazza 5 questions about her latest book! 1. What’s the name of your latest book – and how hard was it to pick a title? My latest book is called Fauna. It started life as a short story called ‘The Exhibit’ but it soon outgrew the title as it moved past the exhibition of de-extincted animals that was […]
» Read moreToday I’m asking Suzanne Moore 5 questions about her latest book! 1. What’s the name of your latest book – and how hard was it to pick a title? The Place Between. The title evolved on its own over time. I can’t quite remember when I settled on the title. It was a working title and I played around with a couple […]
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