So I've been playing around with this website, hunch.com which is sort of designed to help you make decisions like 'what book should I read?' or 'what should I study at school?'. The idea being that you answer a bunch of questions about yourself and your preferences and it can then tell you what movie you'd like to see at the cinema or something.

As ( Read more... )

This morning I opened my laptop to find an email from Helen (my supervisor) saying 'CALL ME, I've lost your number!'. So I did ( Read more... )

Last week while wandering through Leederville Rick and I decided to stop by Retro Betty's, they've been a favourite of ours for burgers for some time and since their sister store changed to being Betty's Cafe and altered their menu somewhat to a version that is not quite as delicious we thought we would resample the original stylings of the first ( Read more... )

This week I did two things. Okay, I confess, I actually did lots of things, but two of them stand out like they’ve been dipped in glow-in-the-dark fluorescent paint.

First, I finished the book (okay, for certain values of ‘finished’, shut up).

Second, I bought a house (again, for certain values of ‘bought’ - traditionally that word only applies ( Read more... )

So… a number of people have asked me to post about this. Therefore…

Operation: Wedded Squee

I may have mentioned before that some of the people who have in the past edited my work occasionally appear to be not very bright. I try not to make judgements because reading editorial makes me grumpy. So I'm putting this out to you guys - does the person who wrote this comment sound sane to you?

(This appeared regarding a scene in which a witch ( Read more... )

I enjoy intelligent editorial. I do. Like every writer I have ever met, I'm also kind of randomly defensive of my work and act like a cat with its hair standing on end even when I'm asking for critique.

I think it's important that I say that first.

Right now I'm running through some edits of my novel. Some of these are by my supervisors, some of them ( Read more... )

I like that this was the photo of the day yesterday:
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At popular request our Not-On-Christmas-Eve-This-Year Party ( Read more... )

So... I decided that US English was just a little too annoying for me, and I was going to switch my facebook language to UK English, as I recently have my Gmail (to my own quiet amusement - the changes are so cute!), but I was seduced by a third option they had available: English (Pirate), I strongly urge you all to try it ( Read more... )