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… is that Kathleen has put the Flash Gordon and the ducks designed up at Redbubble.
Go here.
As my birthday gift to myself, I am getting it in a green hoodie.
Also, tomorrow I teach a 3 hr masterclass at the Gold Coast’s Literati Festival – about putting your
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… because this arrived from Redbubble.
Kathleen Jennings is putting her designs (slowly, oh so slowly. HINT!) there for transmutation into magnificent t-shirts and hoodies and stuffs, oh my!
You should go here and order something and encourage her to make more of her wonderful designs available … if
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The lovely Meg Vann, CEO of the Queensland Writers Centre, writes her monthly letter to members and it goes out with our copies of WQ magazine.
A very talented writer herself, Meg hits on a basic truth here.
The Scream by Munch
… you can hear me breathing and no, not in a creepy phonecall kind of way.
Having returned from the whirlwind of Conflux in Canberra, barely escaping mummification by the hotel’s heating system (BTW: if you need somewhere to mummify a body, talk to me),
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I’m really happy to be able to reveal this cover for my mate SM Johnston’s first book. Sleeper is book one of her Toy Soldiers series, coming atchya from Entranced Publishing.
The blurb for this new adult book reads:
After a life saving heart transplant, eighteen-year-old Mishca Richardson is
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Hecate by William Blake
So, I think we may have *just* missed Women in Horror month, but that shouldn’t stop you from checking out Lisa Hannett’s latest post over at This is Horror. Any time is a good time to read creepy stuff by excellent women writers.
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Just in case no one’s thought to mention it, I’m teaching a day-time course for Queensland Writers Centre, starting on 8 May.
It’s the Toolkit for Writers, and will take place on Wednesdays 8, 15, 22 and 29, from 10.30am to 12.30pm. There are still a few places left.
Blurb:
Learn the narrative
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Okay, this is what arrived in this morning’s mail – sorry for the dodgy video (hey, I’m a writer, not a cinematographer), but I wanted to show how gorgeous and special this book is. A Book of Horrors, super-mega-ultra-special edition.
Dear Writers,
Professionals have a range of bios of varying lengths and depths that can be tweaked at a moment’s notice when an editor asks you for it.
Amateurs shudder, throw themselves on fainting couches and howl ‘Whatever shall I say about myself in the third person!?’
So, noobs, here is your task
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The ToC for the latest YBAF&H (yes, you *should* sing that to the tune of “YMCA”) has been released into the community – on parole, really, with little chance of it respecting its good behaviour bond. With fiction from the likes of Margo Lanagan, Lisa L. Hannett, Alan Baxter, Kathleen
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