Carol Ryles
Excerpt
The stranger stepped out from the Marri trees and onto the track three metres ahead. A man. A tall, pale man with the kind of spiky, black hair that looks more at home on a brushtail possum. His amber gaze was fixed on my ankles. "Don't move," he said, his voice smooth and calm. "Whatever you do, don't...move...an... inch."
from "Snake Charmer," More Scary Kisses, Ticonderoga Publications
Bio
I live in Perth, Western Australia, and have enjoyed reading science fiction and fantasy since the age of ten. A graduate of Clarion West Writers Workshop in 2008, I also love hiking around misty mountains and walking in the rain, preferably as far away from the equator as I can get. I am currently finishing a steampunk fantasy novel as part of my PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Western Australia.
Publications
"Snake Charmer," More Scary Kisses, Ticonderoga Publications
"Deeper than Flesh and Closer," Belong: Interstellar Immigration Stories, edited by Russell B. Farr, Ticonderoga Publications, 2010
"The Bridal Bier," Eidolon 1, edited by Jeremy G. Byrne & Jonathan Strahan, 2006, (shortlisted in the Australian Shadows Award and given Honorable Mention in the Aurealis Awards for fantasy)
Writing Description
I write wherever my imagination takes me: usually science fiction or fantasy with a touch of dark.
Goals
Finish my current novel: i.e. 50,000 third-draft words in six weeks. Estimated: 25,000 total rewrite words, and 25,000 reshuffling of old second-draft words.
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