It has been suggested by minds cleverer than mine, namely Tansy, that a list of SF & Fantasy (or any genre really) books by female authors available on the Kindle in the Aus/NZ region would be a useful thing.
And since I haven't actually managed to start the challenge for myself yet, and since I'd been toying with the idea of starting a twitter list of aussie women authors only to find I didn't need to because Elizabeth has one started, I thought this might be something I could do to help.
So!
If you are — or know of — an Australian female author with books available on the Kindle in the Aus/NZ region, let me know.
Leave me a comment here, or send me a twitter reply/dm (my username over there is debkalin), or email me and I'll set up a post or page with the collated information. Links to author's websites (and/or straight to the Kindle store) would of course be appreciated, but for those who forget to/can't provide one, I'll do my best to hunt out what I can on that front. Genre information for the author and/or book might not go astray either, for the benefit of those seeking books to review.
Amethyst Adams [12 January 2012 @ 9:48 am]
My friend Phillipa Fioretti is published by Hatchett, and in an Australian romantic mysteries writer.
1Deb [12 January 2012 @ 9:50 am]
Thanks, Amethyst!
2Thoraiya [12 January 2012 @ 10:22 am]
I think Claire Corbett's "When We Have Wings" is available on Kindle.
But I don't have one and I don't know how to tell who's allowed to buy what on Amazon; it seems to be a process of adding things to your trolley and then being yelled at in red letters at the checkout when it realises you're from Australia :p
3Deb [12 January 2012 @ 10:27 am]
Awesome system, isn't it? Thanks for reminding me – I'll see if I can find out availability etc. I think she's A&U, so chances are good it's available – they put mine up pretty swiftly.
4Foz Meadows [12 January 2012 @ 10:27 am]
*raises hand*
Also Mary Victoria, who's a NZ fantasy author
5Deb [12 January 2012 @ 10:31 am]
My favourite Foz, thank you for not taxing/trusting my already-beleaguered memory banks. I shall add you to my list of links.
Let me know of any others you can think of – trying to do too many jobs this morning and I'm forgetting all of them.
6Alisa [12 January 2012 @ 11:27 am]
Love and Romanpunk by Tansy Rayner Roberts
Thief of Lives by Lucy Sussex
And very soon the other 2 published volumes of Twelve Planets and then the rest as they are released.
7http://www.twelfthplanetpress.com
Claire Corbett [12 January 2012 @ 11:31 am]
Hi Thoraiya (thanks) and Deborah – yes When We Have Wings is definitely available on all e-formats, including Amazon/Kindle. It is only available as an e-book to Australian and NZ readers at the moment, though that may change when European editions come out.
8Deb [12 January 2012 @ 11:33 am]
Thanks Alisa – I was just about to google/email regarding the TPP titles. Is Deb's Book of Endings up there too?
9Deb [12 January 2012 @ 11:35 am]
Hi Claire, thanks for confirming! I'll be sure to get your name and links up on the list. Read the first chapter of your book at my mother's place over Christmas, actually – do you read much spec-fic, or do you tend more towards the literary genre?
10Melinda Goodin [12 January 2012 @ 2:28 pm]
Hi Deb, this has mirrored in broken html at LiveJournal. I don't know if you visit there often anymore, but the entry is almost impossible to read. Good luck with your list – I just got a Kindle yesterday and am hoping to feed it with good words soon.
11Deb [12 January 2012 @ 2:55 pm]
Oops! Thanks so much for letting me know – I mustly visit LJ via my phone app these days, and it's displaying the post fine so I didn't spot any problems. Hopefully fixed now – and lucky you, Kindle! My cousin was showing off a Kindle Fire this Christmas. Looked very slick and sleek.
12Tansy Rayner Roberts [12 January 2012 @ 3:22 pm]
Hey Deb!
Glad someone's doing this! The first 2 books of my Creature Court trilogy, Power and Majesty & The Shattered City, are on the Kindle for Aus/NZ, and the third (Reign of Beasts) will be up there I imagine on the 1st Feb.
13Deb [12 January 2012 @ 4:26 pm]
Thanks, Tansy! I'm not entirely sure I knew what I was signing up for – my twitter stream has been going crazy all day and I know I've just barely scratched the surface.
Have your name on the list for linking – let me know if you can think of anyone else.
14Claire Corbett [15 January 2012 @ 7:43 am]
Hi Deb
15In answer to your question, yes I do read a lot of spec fic as well as literary fiction – though for me there's a lot of crossover. There are many books that def fall into both categories.
Deb [15 January 2012 @ 9:05 am]
Oh, absolutely – I find genre more useful for selling books, rather than writing them. So it's as common as not for a book to stray over genre lines. Congrats on your publication – good to have you on board
16Claire Corbett [15 January 2012 @ 12:21 pm]
agree – thanks. My most serious genre cred at the moment is that I turned Jeff Noon ("Vurt") on to The Windup Girl. I reckon that's pretty cool
17Deb [15 January 2012 @ 12:39 pm]
Ha! Good work! I bought a copy of that while I was in Salzburg recently, and devoured it in a couple of days. Some great stuff in that book.
18Jennie Brumley [4 February 2012 @ 2:04 pm]
Hi Deb, I realise I'm coming in late on this but hopefully not too late. I am an Aussie Woman Writer and both of my erotic romance novels are available for Kindle.
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=ntt_at_ep_srch?ie=UTF8&search-alias=books& field-author=Jennie+Brumley&sort=relevancerank
Cheers and thanks for this opportunity to share our work,
19Jennie
Deb [4 February 2012 @ 2:10 pm]
Not too late in the slightest – a link to your books is now up!
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