About cat_hellisen

I write.

Mother, Crone, Maiden is up

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  My companion piece-slash-prequel to When the Sea is Rising Red is up at Tor.com. How fantastic is that art? When I saw it I just about died of glee. I want to snuggle it and hold it and love …

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Shiny Things; A Round Up

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Thanks to South African YA writer, SA Partridge, I now know this tumblr exists: I REALLY LOVE AFRICA And with good reason, darling:     Also, you pretty much want to see Seven Nation Army being performed on lab equipment. …

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The Friday Magenpie: Hollow Pike

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I’ve been seeing some shiny covers bouncing around. And because I am easily hooked by things like pretties I’m going to give some cover-love.     It’s about witches? It’s set in England? I dunno.   I like that cover …

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paper computers and tiiiiiiiiny chameleons

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Yep, I focus on the cool things today. It’s a bit of link-soup:   First, laptops made of paper. Yes please.   And the world’s smallest chameleons found in Madagascar. Yay, Madagascar, we knew you were good for more than …

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Daily tea time: a reasoning

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If you follow me on twitter, you’ve probably been spammed with pictures of food. Sorry.   The #dailyteatime came about mainly because I needed a highlight to my day. I stay home and write, and homeschool my spawn, and deal …

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Goodreads give away.

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I’m giving away a copy of When the Sea is Rising Red on Goodreads, so yay go enter!   Goodreads Book Giveaway When the Sea is Rising Red by Cat Hellisen Giveaway ends February 28, 2012. See the giveaway details …

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Something Wicked and Lightsabers

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The horror and science fiction magazine, Something Wicked, is doing a limited kindle give away of their back issue 8. It’s a bumper one with stories from award-winner Lauren Beukes and horror writer Sarah Lotz in the mix:     …

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African SF anthology open to subs and review round-up

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Here’s an anthology open to African writers of science fiction. Sounds like a cool idea. If I wrote SF I’d be all over entering this.   In other news, you can read the first few pages of When the Sea …

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I’m a school marm

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Well, I’m a home-schooler. People tend to assume that obviously this means I am a Christian fundamentalist who only allows my children out in public if they’re wearing virgin-white smocks that cover them from wrist to ankle. These people do …

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Wheeee no time left in my universe!

The Spawn and I have started school.   This time both Younger and Elder Sprog are at school, and it’s a little intimidating teaching two very different age groups. The first day was pretty much the definition of awful. When …

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