I’m delighted to announce that I won four Aurealis Awards yesterday which is, still a ridiculous fact I can’t quite compute.

Before this I had won 2, Best Novel in 2011 for Power and Majesty, and the Convenor’s Award in 2012 for Galactic Suburbia. So….

FOUR. I can’t even.

The awards, btw were for Girl Reporter (Best YA Short Fiction, Best SF Novella), “The Curse Has Come Upon Me, Cried,” (Best Fantasy Short Story) and The Fictional Mother (Convenor’s Award).

To celebrate these wins, I have sent links to ALL of my Kickstarter backers to download 2 free ebooks: The Fictional Mother (essays) and Please Look After This Angel (short story collection in which “Curse” appears). If you’ve been meaning to pledge to the Creature Court Kickstarter but haven’t got around to it, this would be a VERY good week to do that, as the free downloads of my 2 Aurealis Award-winning books are available to all backers until Friday 6 April.

You can get access to the free books by pledging to my Kickstarter for as little as $1!

We still have nearly $4000 to raise for the Kickstarter and 11 days to do it in! Will I make the goal in time? Do I get to make these books????

PS: In other exciting awards news, I’m on the Best Fancast shortlist of the Hugo Awards twice, for Galactic Suburbia and Verity! Also Kathleen Jennings, whose wonderful art is an essential part of the Creature Court Kickstarter, is nominated for Best Professional Artist!!