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A while ago, I had the honour of participating in a celebration of Women’s History Month over on Gillian Polack’s blog. I’ve now crossposted the entry here along with my other collected blatherings. For what is a journal without blather?

Speaking of which, I’m only 4000 words ( Read more... )

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The title of this entry comes from a post-it note written to myself at about 11:30 pm last night, after getting out of the shower. I don’t know about you other writing folks, but I often work out plot points in the shower. Then I write notes to myself so as not to forget the ( Read more... )

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I had the pleasure lately of participating in one of SF Signal’s ‘Mind Melds’ - if you are one of the unitiated, as I was before this experience, that means a cross-section of the SFF community contributing views on a given subject. We don’t speak to each other beforehand, so ( Read more... )

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It’s a rather special year for antipodeans at the Gemmell awards. Not only do we have the most excellent Helen Lowe representing on the Morningstar shortlist, but two artists from downunder on the Ravenheart list as well, one of whom I happen to know passably well! Ahem. So if ( Read more... )

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I have some lovely news to report: both ‘Samiha’s Song’ and ‘Oracle’s Fire’ have been shortlisted for the Sir Julius Vogel awards here in New Zealand! Colour me chuffed. (Both books! I’m a little flabbergasted.)

As if that weren’t enough, Frank Victoria is also shortlisted for ( Read more... )

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Tim Jones has interviewed me over on his blog, ‘Books in the Trees.’ I’m a fan of Tim’s work (‘Transported’, ‘Men Briefly Explained’) and it was a great pleasure to pop over for a chat! Tim asks very insightful questions about the YA-or-not-ness of Chronicles of the Tree, ( Read more... )

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Tim Jones is a regular contributor to the ‘Tuesday Poem’ collective (if that’s the right noun: what would you call a group of poets? A rasp of poets? A blackness of poets, considering the wardrobe tendency…?)

I was rather chuffed to see he’d chosen my poem ‘Rapunzel’ for today’s ( Read more... )

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Lately, I’ve had the pleasure of contributing to Nicole Murphy’s regular blog feature, discussing different writers’ habits and processes. It’s fun, because I don’t think I would have answered these questions the same way a couple of years ago… I’m getting pickier and harder to ( Read more... )

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As you well know if you’ve been reading this blog, I’ve been a regular visitor on Helen Lowe’s site over the past couple of years, and a reader of her excellent fantasy series, ‘The Wall of Night’. This time, it’s my turn to have Helen over for a visit on the 7th of April, when ( Read more... )