Monthly Archives: February 2010

At the moment I am enjoying …

February 19, 2010 | fairy tales, Pimping/Promoting!, Random | Leave a comment

… the rather glorious prose of Eugie Foster … Returning My Sister’s Face is awesome. Thank you to BDC, whose gift it was.

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Here's a cartoon I can get behind

February 19, 2010 | Random | 2 Comments

Courtesy of my fave Apocalpse advocate, Jason Fischer*. Nice to see no sign of Scrappy – reckon he would have made an excellent stew.

* Note: he also believes Puffins will soon take over the world.

Tagged jason fischer, scooby doo. apocaylypse, zombies |

Hit the ZOMG Button!

February 18, 2010 | News | 4 Comments

This was one of my fave books when it came out – it was set in Brisneyland and it was creepy. I’ve had 3 copies of it and have leant them all out and never seen the damned things again.

I will be getting one of these and NO ONE is borrowing it. NO ONE!

KIM WILKINS
WINNER OF 2 AUREALIS AWARDS

Australian musician
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Tagged kim wilkins, the infernal, ticonderoga publications |

I'm not someone who plays computer games …

February 18, 2010 | Random | 2 Comments

… but quite frankly this review (recently pointed out to me by *someone who does*) is almost enough to make me start … or maybe I should just listen to more reviews like this.

Language and lack’o’political correctness warning …

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/57-Painkiller

Tagged painkiller, reviews, shurkans and lightning |

Word from the Indie Press

February 17, 2010 | Uncategorized | 4 Comments

Charles Tan, the Bibliophile Stalker (the only good stalker is a bibliophile stalker – no, really) interviews Alisa Krasnostein, Guiding Goddess of Aussie indie Twelfth Planet Press, over here http://charles-tan.blogspot.com/2010/02/interview-alisa-krasnostein.html

Writers who want to be informed will read this … take responsibility for your career and expand your knowledge of the industry!

Tagged Alisa Krasnostein, bibliophile, charles tan, twelfth planet press |

Sigh of Disappointment

February 17, 2010 | Random | Leave a comment

I got a copy of Joe Hill’s Horns in the mail the other day (great cover). It’s the first thing I’ve read of his and I was looking forward to it … on the upside, I think he’s a better writer than his dad … on the downside, on about p.5
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Tagged horns, joe hill, reading, whodunnit |

Pondering …

February 17, 2010 | On Publishing, On Writing: General | 9 Comments

… the idea of self-promotion, something with which a lot of writers are quite uncomfortable.

I’ve just finished writing an article for the next edition of the Australian Writer’s Marketplace on finding a literary agent … one of the points I put in there was ‘Write first, agent second’.

‘Splain?

Sure.

If you’re approaching a literary agent, you need to have
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Tagged agents, Australian Writer's Marketplace, self-promotion, writing |