Kaaron Warren

“Kaaron Warren is a fresh, amazingly talented voice out of Australia. You must read her work.”
– Ellen Datlow

Slights – 1 July 2009 (UK/Oz), May 2010 (US/RoW)
Walking the Tree – February 2010 (UK/Oz), July 2010 (US/RoW)
Mistification – June 2010 (UK/Oz), December (US/RoW)

Slights is Kaaron’s first novel,

the first of three jaw-dropping books to be published by Angry Robot. Her award-winning short fiction has appeared in Year’s Best Horror & Fantasy, the Poe and Haunted Legends anthologies, Fantasy magazine, Paper Cities, and many other venues in the US, Europe and Australia. Her short story “A Positive” has been made into a short film called Patience, and her first ever published short story “White Bed” was dramatised for the stage in Australia.

She is currently working on a novella about the goddess Ishtar, and a novel about the washerwoman in history. She is an Australian, currently based in Fiji.

Other random stuff she told us
~ I always wanted to be famous and changed the spelling of my name for that reason. There were too many ‘Karens’ in the world and I wanted to stand out.

~ My favourite kind of lolly (sweetie) is a hard one gone soft. Think Blackpool rock you can chew.

~ I’m an extremely bad drawer but I draw deliberately worse to make my children laugh. Can’t have them thinking I’m perfect.

~ I wrote my first novel at 14. Called Skin Deep, it was inspired by S.E.Hinton’s The Outsiders. It might have been published if I’d been able to type faster.

~ I see stories everywhere, even in the names of birds. I have “spine-tailed swift” in my ideas notebook.

~ I love to read anything and everything. Weird specialist magazines are a fave. I love the secret language they use, and the way people can be famous in their field but unheard of elsewhere.

Kaaron’s Writing Blog | Life in Fiji Blog

Press Release: 02 Feb, 2010 – Angry Robot Announces a New Way of Telling Stories

Interview with My Favourite Books (April 2009)
Interview with writer Robert Hood (April 2009)
Interview with Luke Reviews (June 2009)
Guest cook at Foodpast.com (July 2009)
Interview with the mighty Falcata Times (July 2009)
Interview with Zone Horror (July 2009)
Interview with Opinionated? Me? (Sept 2009)
Interview with Temple Library Reviews (Oct 2009)
Discussion on environment and place, at World SF (Oct 09)
Discussion on what is really scary, at Temple Library Reviews (Oct 09)
Interview with the mighty SF Signal (Nov 09)
Guest Post at SF Signal’s Mind Meld (Dec 09)
Interview(er) at World SF News (Dec 09)
Interview as part of a round-up of Australian genre writers (Feb 10)
Interview with DragonKat (Feb 10)
Interview (part of Women in Horror Month) (Feb 10)