The trailer below was produced by Curtain University Students
You can purchase the paperback book from Twelfth Planet Press but if you want to pick up a cheaper ebook version to test the waters see their sale page here.
If you have a local library with its finger on the pulse of the Australian genre scene, you might see the paperback copy on a New Book shelf near you.
But not to be content with that TPP have also announced a Young Adult anthology called Kaleidoscope. It will be released in late 2014. It will be edited by Alisa Krasnostein and Julia Rios ( of Strange Horizons and Outer Alliance Podcast Fame).
As befits the name, the editors are:
“… not simply looking for cookie-cutter vampire or urban fantasy stories, but for things that transport us and subvert our expectations. We particularly want to see characters of color, disabled, neurodiverse, and mentally ill characters, QUILTBAG content, and non-western cultural elements.”
Eager writers can check out the specific submission details here.
In Perth A Trifle Dead was launched by Dr Helen Merrick, snapped here by Twelfth Planet Press Director, Alisa Krasnostein. I believe that the author appeared at the Hobart launch, but shots of the elusive Ms Day are …um ..eluding me.
You can check out Ms Day’s website here. And follow her on Twitter as @liviadaysleuth.
If you want to get a sneak peak at Australia’s best kept Crime fiction secret check out the first chapter below:
Chapter 1.
You can tell a lot about a person from their coffee order. I play a game with the girls who work in my café—guess the order before the customer opens their mouth. It’s fun because half the time you’re spot on—the bloke who would rather die than add anything to his long black, the girl who doesn’t want to admit how weak she likes her latté, the woman who’ll deliberate for twenty minutes as to whether or not she wants a piece of cake (she does), the mocha freak, the decaf junkie.
The rest of the time, you’re completely wrong. An old age pensioner requests a soy macchiato, a gang of pink- haired school girls want serious espresso shots, a lawyer in a designer suit stops to chat for half an hour about free trade… The best thing about people is how often they surprise you.
Ever wondered what kind of coffee a murderer drinks? Yeah, me neither.
I tumbled into the kitchen of Café La Femme, arms full of bakery boxes, a vintage mint-green sundress swirling around my knees. Late as usual, but at least I was wearing my favourite sandals.
A gal can cope with anything when her shoes match her bra.
Nin paused in the middle of kneading focaccia dough to stare at me from under her expressive eyebrows. I love her eyebrows. They make Frida Kahlo’s look meek. ‘They’re here again,’ she said, and went back to kneading. [read on…]
Another Amanda Rainey cover and this time I think she has really outdone herself. This book makes me want to eat trifle and read…but not kill people.
A Trifle Dead is the debut novel of stunning new crime writing talent Livia Day* the first of the Dealines imprint from Twelfth Planet Press
You can preorder your copy now.
* it should be noted that I have only read the first chapter, but then Livia Day occupies the same brain space as Tansy Rayner Roberts so, I sure it will be excellent.
But for those readers who have passing interest in Speculative Fiction and who might enjoy a good crime novel I give you - Deadlines a new crime imprint from Twelfth Planet Press.
The first cab off the rank will be:
A Trifle Dead by Livia Day
Tabitha Darling has always had a dab hand for pastry and a knack for getting into trouble. Which was fine when she was a tearaway teen, but not so useful now she’s trying to run a hipster urban cafe, invent the perfect trendy dessert, and stop feeding the many (oh so unfashionable) policemen in her life.
When a dead muso is found in the flat upstairs, Tabitha does her best (honestly) not to interfere with the investigation, despite the cute Scottish blogger who keeps angling for her help. Her superpower is gossip, not solving murder mysteries, and those are totally not the same thing, right?
But as that strange death turns into a string of random crimes across the city of Hobart, Tabitha can’t shake the unsettling feeling that maybe, for once, it really is ALL ABOUT HER.
And maybe she’s figured out the deadly truth a trifle late…
Livia Day is another Tasmanian writer (something in the water or is it the apples?) whose crime influences include Ms Emma Peel and Miss Marple. She blogs here.
Maybe we might see a crime/speculative fiction mashup if TPP can get Tansy Rayner Roberts and Livia to work on a project together?
