South African writer Sarah Lotz sells new novel to Hodder

South African author Sarah Lotz has signed a major new deal with UK publisher Hodder. We have previously reported on Sarah selling her Deadlands novels (zombies in South Africa!) to Constable & Robinson, and reprinted her story Maun of the Dead. She also contributed to our 2011: South African SF/F in Review. Congratulations, Sarah! From...

Lily Herne novels coming to the UK

I was delighted to find out yesterday that Lily Herne's novels, Deadlands and Death of a Saint, published in South Africa by Penguin, have been picked up at the London Book Fair by Constable & Robinson, under their Corsair imprint, for UK and Commonwealth publication in 2013. Herne is a pseudonym of author Sarah Lotz (who, together with...

2011 South African SF/F in Review

2011 - A Year South African Speculative Fiction Gathers Momentum By Sarah Lotz, Nick Wood and Tanya Barben   2011 has been a bursting year for South African speculative fiction, as it gathers further pace and push from the heralding, punchy impact of Lauren Beukes's first two novels. (2011 being split almost mid-year by the...

Tuesday Fiction: “Maun of the Dead” by Sarah Lotz (Author Week #3)

Our new story this Tuesday is "Maun of the Dead" by Sarah Lotz, one half of S.L. Grey. Maun of the Dead Sarah Lotz The YOU magazine is over six weeks old, but I don’t care. I grab it from its otherwise empty shelf and greedily flick through the dusty pages, pausing at a Becks...

South African SF/F Panel

The South African Mail & Guardian reports on the recent science fiction and fantasy in the city panel from the M&G literary festival in Johannesburg: South African writers who dare to venture into the fantastical are accused of writing "untruths", said Gwen Ansell, chairing "Science Fiction and Fantasy in the City" at the M&G Literary...

South African horror novel The Mall published

The latest genre novel from South Africa is The Mall, by S.L. Grey. S.L. Grey is the pseudonym of South African writers Louis Greenberg and Sarah Lotz. About the book: Dan works at a bookstore in a deadly dull shopping mall where nothing ever happens. He's an angsty emo-kid who sells mid-list books to mid-list...