I've been busy for the last couple of months setting up my own freelance editing / copywriting business. I have a fair few projects happening at the moment but unfortunately nothing particularly lucrative just yet. The most exciting opportunity is a TV show pilot I filmed and am working on. It's a show about books (surprise suprise) and I am the ( Read more... )

So, I was right on the money on Thursday and I walked into my last meeting at Random House knowing exactly what was about to happen. In this regard I was more fortunate than the other 13 people to be cut this week - almost 10% of the entire Australian workforce. I at least had been able to come to terms with the whole thing before walking in and ( Read more... )

Well, the global financial crisis is about to catch up with me. In 1 hour from now I am to sit down in a meeting with the sales director of Random House Australia and he is going to explain, as apologetically and sympathetically as possible, why my position in the company has been made redundant. I will be the fourth and final account manager out ( Read more... )

Well, it's been over a year since my last post and I bet more than a few of you were wondering whether I'd fallen of the LJ wagon for good! I hope you all had a great Christmas and New Year and, while I'm at it, a fantastic 2008. I always like to look at the year just past in terms of how my life was going at the start of the year and compare that ( Read more... )

It's been four months since Mel and I broke up and three and a half since my last lj entry. I barely even managed to come online to talk about the Deathly Hallows (which I loved by the way). I have to say that the past months have been, without doubt, the hardest of my life. I have been depressed before so I know the signs and this was easily the ( Read more... )

Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday dear Fraaaaaankieeeeeeeee
Happy birthday to yoooooooouuuuuuu!

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Hooray!

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Hooray!

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Hooray!

Hope you have a good one girl

Yeah, so I've been MIA for a long while again. What can I say, I'm a bit over committed at the moment and I rarely get the spare moments these days to update. Life's good, just busy. Mel and I are both working hard but travelling along happily enough ( Read more... )

It was time for a change. My LJ colours never quite worked for me and I had a day free so I went for the change. It didn't go all as planned. I intended simply to change the colours but it seems the theme I was using is no longer available so once I started fiddling I lost it for good. I liked the expressive style but none of the themes that went ( Read more... )

I have just been playing around on Wayano.com, the site Bron asked me to have a look at. I posted some reviews I wrote for my booksellers on there and thought I may as well post them here too. I'll do more of that. Most of them will be Random House published books, for obvious reasons, but some others may slip in. Not all of them will be avaliable ( Read more... )

Book Review:

The Lizard Cage - Karen Connelly


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