>Animals and Us
> After seeing Dave’s post about how he’s trying to raise money to bring his animals with him to Australia, it made me realise how integral animals are to our lives. You can tell a lot about a...
View Article>The Reading List
> This riffs a little on Rowena’s post yesterday. Like most writers, I’m a scribbler completely surrounded by books. My family has so many books — on bookshelves, on tables, on counters, on top of...
View Article>Warning Touchy Subject — Racism
> Okay, so I’m writing an alternate history story that starts in Australia in the 1820s, then veers off into a different time line. The cast consists of educated Europeans, escaped English convicts,...
View Article>Past Lives in Fiction
> Ah. What a week! Apologies for being a little absent from the blogging. I had a three day short story Masterclass this week in Brisbane – part of the prize for the 2009 One Book Many Brisbanes...
View ArticleGender in Writing, Reviewing and Reading
(As Synova pointed out in her comment, we need to let people know who is writing the post. So I’ve added this.) Rowena here … I’ve come across some posts and articles recently on gender bias in writing...
View ArticleFantasy is Tough
I don’t like fantasy. You heard me. I grew up reading Tolkein, CS Lewis, Madeline L’Engle, and loving them. I remember absorbing the Pern books all out of order and visiting different libraries to try...
View ArticleBread on the waters (it brings out the fish)
‘See I’m more important than you!’ squalled the twitterati. “I’ve got more twitter followers AND more facebook likes. I’ve totally smoked you etc etc… to summarize the pursuit of irrelevance that Larry...
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