Last week I posted on having made the shortlist for the 2014 Sir Julius Vogel Award for “Services to Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror.”

I also posted the citation, which includes mention of my “… blog and … space in SF Signal and [my] presence at events to inform the world” of NZ SFF.

Anyway, I can’t really link to events here, but can provide a list of my interviews with other writers, both here on “…Anything, Really” and on SF Signal and Plains 96.9 FM, just in case you’re curious and/or not already familiar with the blogging ‘backlist.’

Tomorrow, I’ll post a further feature on guest posts and other SFF-related features I’ve hosted — but for now, onwards to those interviews.

“Fun With Friends” On SF Signal:

This series focuses on my interviewing fellow SFF authors from Australia and New Zealand, with a short interview format focusing on “who they are” and “what they do” in writing terms. SF Signal, for those who may not know, is a Hugo Award-winning genre site based in the US. Here are the NZ authors interviewed to date (in chronological order):

Juliet Marillier
Tim Jones
Jane Higgins
Adam Christopher
Elizabeth Knox
Stephen Minchin
Karen Healey
Freya Robertson

The Supernatural Underground:

The Supernatural Underground is another US-based genre site and I interviewed Juliet Marillier there when her new YA novel, Shadowfell, was published in 2012:

An Interview with Juliet Marillier Discussing “Shadowfell”

Interviews With Fellow NZ SFF Authors On My Own Blog: “Helen Lowe on Anything, Really”:

On 31 May, I will have been blogging for four years. In that time, I have conducted several interviews with NZ authors on the blog — as well as bringing international authors to my NZ-based blog — to check out some of those interviews, click on Guest Interviews. But the three specifically Kiwi interviews are:

Mary Victoria (on publication of Samiha’s Song)
Pip Ballantine & Tee Morris (on publication of Phoenix Rising)
Mary Victoria (on publication of Oracle’s Fire)

Interviews With Fellow NZ SFF Authors On Women On Air, Plains 96.9 FM:

Although my main ‘gig’ with the “Women On Air” show, on local Radio Station Plains 96.9 FM, was interviewing poets, before the  programme closed in 2012, I was privileged to interview several NZ speculative fiction authors on air.

At the time, the interviews were released by Plains FM as podcasts, but as these are no longer available the link provided is simply to the linking post on my blog. The authors interviewed include:

Jennifer Fallon (on her move to NZ)
Nalini Singh
Ripley Patton (winner of the the Sir Julius Vogel Award for Services to Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror in 2012.) Ripley’s interview also featured on my US publisher’s Out Of This Eos blog — now Harper Voyager)
Mary Victoria (on the publication of Tymon’s Flight)

As above, the next post will be on the fellow NZ SFF authors I’ve hosted by way of guest posts / features, with an additional post/s on articles on NZ speculative fiction and the “What I’m Reading” series.