Double Shortlisting in AAs
Sean has garnered two shortlistings in the 2002 Aurealis Awards (see announcement): Best Fantasy Novel for The Storm Weaver and the Sand and Best SF Novel for Echoes of Earth (with Shane Dix), bringing his total so far to thirteen. The results will be announced at the 8th Aurealis Awards Ceremony in Melbourne on Friday 28th March, 2003.
	source: in-house	11-Jan-2003

Sean's for A Just Australia
Sean Williams has joined a small group of Australian authors who "[do] not agree with what is happening in Australia to refugees and asylum seekers" and are prepared to use their books to publicise that fact. (More)
	source: in-house	24-Nov-2002

Williams, Douglass Tour
HarperCollins Australia is touring its big-name local genre authors Sara Douglass and Sean Williams in November/December. (More)
	source: in-house	18-Nov-2002

Nix and Williams Guests at SWF
This year's Sydney Writers' Festival (Monday May 27th to Sunday June 2nd 2002), will feature both Adelaide's Sean Williams and Sydney local Garth Nix. (More)
	source: in-house	24-Apr-2002

Collections Cancelled
FPR Books' recently decided to forego future releases in its Swift Imprint, which has reprinted Metal Fatigue, and the Evergence trilogy. Unfortunately the decision also means that three planned collections of Williams' short fiction and a hardcover reprint of The Resurrected Man will not now see print.
	source: in-house	27-Oct-2001

Use The Force, Lad
In the last few months, the feverish activity at Chez Williams has seen Sean polish off the first draft of Force Heretic: Remnant, the opening book in his and Shane Dix's Star Wars: New Jedi Order trilogy. (More)
	source: in-house	09-Oct-2001

New Jedi Order, 2003
Details of the Williams/Dix Star Wars books have emerged following discussions with George Lucas. The Star Wars: The New Jedi Order series, all set to appear from Bantam Books in the US in 2003, will be Force Heretic 1: Remnant, Force Heretic 2: Refugee and Force Heretic 3: Reunion.
	source: in-house	06-Apr-2001

First of Retitled "Orphan" Trilogy Delivered
US publisher Ace Books has accepted the first novel of a new Sean Williams/Shane Dix series for publication. The collaboration was originally referred to as the Orphan trilogy, but the book titles themselves are proving a small problem. (More)
	source: in-house	01-Mar-2001

SW + SD = Star Wars
Sean Williams and Shane Dix have sold US publisher Del Rey a trilogy of Star Wars New Jedi Order novels. (More)
	source: in-house	01-Mar-2001

Williams & Dix Successful Exports
The South Australian writing team of Sean Williams and Shane Dix have just seen Japanese language rights to their Evergence series sold to Hiyakawa. The news follows closely on sales of the series to Ast in Russia and Navrat in Czechoslovakia. All three books are due to be reprinted by UK-based FPR books in April.
	source: in-house	28-Jan-2001

Williams' Greatness Now Official
Adelaide author Sean Williams has been honoured as part of this year's South Australia Day celebrations, winning the 2000 SA Great Award for Literature. (More)
	source: in-house	29-Dec-2000

"Evermore" in Audio
Random House Audio (US) will be releasing an audio version of Sean's story "Evermore". First published by Altair in its WorldCon 1999 issue, and reprinted in Gardner Dozois' Year's Best SF Volume 17 this year, the story will be read by actor Kerin McCue and will be available for download or on compact cassette in November 2000.
	source: in-house	15-Oct-2000

Williams Continues Headline-hogging Excesses
Fresh from his appearance at the National Young Writers’ Festival, Sean Williams has announced that as of 1-October-2000 he had no less than nine new books in the pipeline. (More)
	source: in-house	09-Oct-2000

Williams Still a Spring Chicken
Sean Williams will be appearing as a guest and speaking at the third annual National Young Writers' Festival, being held this year in Newcastle NSW, from October 5th to 9th. (More)
	source: in-house	05-Oct-2000

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