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Proud to be a Lifer at the SAWC

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In all its history, the SA Writers’ Centre has bestowed just three honorary life-memberships. I’m immensely pleased to be one of them. At last year’s farewell of outgoing director Barbara Wiesner (also the annual St Lucy’s Xmas party) I was invited up to present the winner of the innaugural Writing Australia Unpublished Manuscript Award (Hannah [...]

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a small thought on writing big

posted on 26 Jan 2012 at 5:12 am
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“Don’t write the words. Write the book.” (To paraphrase the ever-wise Fred Clark quoting Angela Lansbury.)
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Proud to be a Lifer at the SAWC

posted on 11 Jan 2012 at 6:34 am
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In all its history, the SA Writers’ Centre has bestowed just three honorary life-memberships. I’m immensely pleased to be one of them. At last year’s farewell of outgoing director Barbara Wiesner (also the annual St Lucy’s Xma
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ambience for the old year

posted on 2 Jan 2012 at 10:45 pm
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I’m in the process of downloading my first ambient album for 2012 (this one) and it occurred to me that I hadn’t posted my favourites from 2011. I listen to ambient electronic music constantly, so the search is always on for new sounds to
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World Fantasy Convention – panel

posted on 21 Oct 2011 at 10:43 pm
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WFC’s program is online, and I’m pleased to be scheduled on a panel at 10am Friday morning. The topic is “Bring Me That Horizon: The Exploration of Untrod Lands as a Fantasy Theme”, and I’ll be appearing with Grania Davi
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HOPE

posted on 11 Oct 2011 at 11:38 pm
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Hope is an anthology intended to help raise awareness of suicide. You can buy it here. It’s a very worthwhile cause and a great collection too, containing stories by Paul Haines, Karen Lee Field, Pamela Freeman, Rowena Cory Daniells, Alan Baxte
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On creative burnout

posted on 9 Oct 2011 at 9:21 am
The magnificent Deborah Biancotti, in response to this article, asked a bunch of writers how they avoid creative burnout, or what to do about it if you’ve got it, or something. Here’s my answer. Spoiler: it involves chocolate. (That’
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Character Stakes in Post-Scarcity Novels (SF Signal)

posted on 15 Sep 2011 at 2:42 am
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When people have everything, what keeps them interesting? Lots of answers here, including mine.
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marking time

posted on 11 Sep 2011 at 7:18 am
deadline X deadline That spot. That’s me. Between deadlines. That’s all.
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Sharing the Small Press Lurv

posted on 9 Sep 2011 at 12:19 am
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Tehani Wessely asked for my thoughts on small press, and here they are.
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Ghosts by Gaslight are GO

posted on 8 Sep 2011 at 12:54 am
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A copy of Jack Dann and Nick Gever’s awesome anthology Ghosts by Gaslight has reached my hot little hands and it’s a beautiful thing. It contains a new story by me, “The Jade Woman of the Luminous Star”, and a host of others,
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