by Rabarts, Dan
Jan Goldie is a working writer, creating content for websites, print media, corporate communications and social media. She’s hoping her first YA fantasy adventure novel Brave and True will be published in 2013. In the meantime she’s writing a multitude of short stories and working on several picture book projects. Writing Love Hurts made her realise how much she’d like to have her own super powers; particularly the power to write ‘kick-arse’ prose at top speeds with minimal editing. Maybe in another life!
Speculative writer Jean Gilbert moved from Virginia, US to New Zealand in 2005, and has since called the Waikato Valley (the Shire) her home. When not assisting in surgery, Jean spends her time writing, reading, movie-watching and enjoying the great outdoors. As an avid science fiction/fantasy buff and blogger, she is a geek, and proud of it. Jean is the coordinator for the Central Island SpecFicNZ meet-ups. Read more about Jean at jeangilbert.com.
Jenni Sands grew up in Wellington, trying hard not to believe that her toys came alive in the night or that witches lived under the bed. Now grown up, she believes even worse things. Jenni has been published in Enamel, RPGirl and Filament magazines, as well as a very short story on nanoism.net and a previous collaborative book called The Event. She has also self-published a roleplaying game about teen supernatural romance called The Silver Kiss of the Magical Twilight of the Full Moon.
Lewis Morgan is a professional storyteller who has worked in New Zealand schools for the past twenty years. He writes and tells his own stories and also teaches creative writing. When not travelling New Zealand storytelling he resides in the Waikato on his two acre farm, pursuing his twin passions of mountain biking and breeding poultry. To this day he maintains a love/hate relationship with the Alien.
Matt Cowens is the co-author of Mansfield with Monsters and Steam Pressed Shorts, and is the artist responsible for a series of self-published comics which appeared in tiny numbers in comic shops around the country in the 1990s. Matt has collaborated with Debbie Cowens (née Giltrap) on a number of projects including card games, short films, roleplaying games and short story anthologies.
Matthew Sanborn Smith’s works have appeared at Tor.com, Nature and Chizine, among others. He is an occasional contributor to StarShipSofa and is the creator and voice of the podcast Beware the Hairy Mango.
When not delving into the intricacies of managing digital collections in his day job as a librarian, Michael J Parry wrestles with the idea of being a writer. His comfort place is science fiction and fantasy, and while horror is often closely related to those genres, it’s not one he has explored much. He has a couple of novels out in ebook format which you can find out about at michaeljparry.com.
Morgan Davie lives in Lower Hutt, NZ. He writes all sorts of things, keeps a blog at morgue.isprettyawesome.com, and is probably taller than you.
Award-winning writer Paul Mannering is the gleeful author of dozens of published horror stories, a long-running Doctor Who and podcast audio drama. His first novel, Tankbread, been published by Permuted Press. Paul lives with his writing widow wife and two cats in the cold hills of Karori in Wellington, where the summits are too rounded and symmetrical to give a sense of comfort and naturalness, and sometimes the sky silhouettes with especial clearness the queer circles of tall stone pillars with which most of them are crowned.
Piper Mejia is the current president of Tauranga Writers, the longest-running writing group in New Zealand. She hosts both the Tauranga Writers webpage (taurangawriters.org.nz) and a website dedicated to help young New Zealand writers hone their craft (youngnzwriters.weebly.com). She is the co-editor of Write Off Line (2012) and Beyond This Age (2013), collections of writing by New Zealand students. Since 2009 she has written several articles for Creative Beat, Sunlive News, Bay of Plenty Times and the Katikati Advertiser about the literature movement in the Bay of Plenty. As an advocate for New Zealand writers and literature she has run The Great NZ Book Race for the last two years with the support of the New Zealand National Library, the New Zealand Book Council and New Zealand Book Month.
Sally McLennan writes like an addict does blow. She just can’t help it. The words are in her system and the buzz is irresistible. She can be found most nights, gripping her pen in a sweaty paw to write fairy stories, horror, erotica, children’s stories, science fiction and YA fantasy. Previous publications include the children’s picture book Deputy Dan and the Mysterious Midnight Marauder and she has a YA series in the process of being published. When she is not in the throes of the muse, Sally enjoys fooling around with her Clydesdale and hanging out with fellow geeks.
Jack Newhouse is an author of science fiction, fantasy and frankenpunk based in Wellington, New Zealand. He bears a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and political science and scars from driving thieves out of brothels. In his free time he builds gaming miniatures, knits, bakes, and plays table-top RPGs. The release of his first novel, Darwin’s Monster: Balaena, in ebook format is expected to be later in 2013. Find him on twitter @Chirurgic.
Kevin Maclean lives in Auckland, New Zealand, along with two non-feral artists and entirely too many cats. He gives his profession as ‘burned-out computer geek’, but his background is broader than that implies, from bartending at Les Girls, to advising a NSW Royal Commission, to co-founding a major Auckland computer company. His short fiction has featured in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, the DAW anthology Misspelled, Millennium Nights, a number of Pipers Ash collections, and Julie Czerneda’s Realms of Wonder series for Fitzhenry and Whiteside. He won the Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best Short Story in 2004, 2005, and 2008. He has recently finished a standalone novel which he describes as ‘very strange’, (which, considering he considers HP Lovecraft’s work ‘normal’, is somewhat worrying) and is now working on the next novel in the same worlds. This is his first short story to be written or published since 2007. Enjoy!
Acknowledgements
It’s fair to say that this book would not have been possible without the contributions and support of dozens of people, and the editors would like to pass on a huge thanks to everyone who got involved and made Baby Teeth a reality.
Thanks to authors Jake Bible, Anna Caro, Debbie Cowens, Matt Cowens, Morgan Davie, Elizabeth Gatens, Jean Gilbert, Jan Goldie, JC Hart, Alan Lindsay, Kevin G Maclean, Sally McLennan, Paul Mannering, Piper Mejia, Lewis Morgan, Eileen Mueller, Celine Murray, Jack Newhouse, Michael J Parry, Alicia Ponder, Darian Smith, Matthew Sanborn Smith, Jenni Sands, Grant Stone, and M Darusha Wehm, for their stories;
To Duffy Books in Homes, for coming on board with us and giving us all something worth working towards;
Huge thanks to our sponsors, SpecFicNZ and Lambton Property Management, for giving us the financial boost we needed to get the word about the book out to as many readers as possible;
To everyone who has donated to our PledgeMe campaign and rewards, artwork and design, and to those responsible for proofing, layout, print and ebook publication and audio production: Marie Hodgkinson, Elizabeth Heritage, Chad Dick, Sandra Dusconi, Tony C Smith, Larry Santoro, Amanda Pillar, the Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine Hivemind, Stephen Minchin, Beaulah Pragg, Romilly Brown, and Chris Barnes of Dynamic Ram Audio;
And to everyone who backed our PledgeMe campaign to raise the funds for the print run and promotion: Brian Ackles, Fran Atkinson, Kevin Berry, Celia Black, Ellen Boucher, Jan & Tony Braddock, Sarah Bunker, Jesse Colvin, Cassandra Cook, Pauline Cowens, Sandra Dusconi, Duffy Books, Pearce Duncan, Julian Fitter, Annette Gelfi, Kylie Gorringe, Fiona Hall, Joffre Horlor, Alana Hyland, Cameron A Jack, Jeanette Marsh, Zephfi May, Tracie Mcbride, Frankie Mundens, Александра Миронова, Lorena Norling, Craig Oxbrow, Richard Parry, Simon Petrie, Beaulah Pragg, Chrissy Rabarts, Derek Robinson, Scott Roche, Jim Ryan, Kenneth Tagher, Keith Teklits, Shayne Thurston, Ivan Towlson, Danielle Walker, Craig Walter, Dana Voysey.
Without your support, this book would not have happened. Thank you all, and we hope you’ve enjoyed the stories in these pages.
Pa
per Road Press
Paper Road Press is a Wellington-based publisher of science fiction, fantasy, and any other genre entertaining enough to get through the door.
Baby Teeth is the first book to be published by Paper Road Press, and we are proud to be a part of Dan and Lee’s scheme to funnel money into Duffy Books in Homes (even if Baby Teeth is not the sort of book you’d want a kid to bring home, really).
Look out for more Paper Road Press books in all good bookstores in 2014.
First published in 2013 by Paper Road Press
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All stories contained in this collection copyright © 2013 their respective authors.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted or utilised in any form, or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher.
A catalogue record for this book is available from the National Library of New Zealand.
Cover image © Dan Rabarts
Design by Marie Hodgkinson
Ebook conversion by Paper Road Press
ISBN 978-0-473-25689-0 (epub) 978-0-473-25688-3 (print) 978-0-473-25690-6 (mobi)
An audiobook of this book is available from Dynamic Ram Audio Productions, ISBN 978-0-473-25691-3