Monthly Archives: October 2012
Today …
… is back-at-the-novel-day.
It’s also, coincidentally, the first quiet day I’ve had in the two weeks since the British Fantasy Awards were announced. I’ve spent large chunks of that time talking about myself – which is not my usual setting
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Sandpaper & Salt
So, Tessa Kum is available to edit your work and her flensing services are second to none. That is all you really need to know. Go here. 
Not quite convinced? How about listening to Jeff VanderMeer?
“I highly
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And so, the sequel became a prequel
After I finished Sourdough and Other Stories I was certain, quite certain, that when I once again began writing in the world of Lodellan, it would be for a sequel. I had – still have – these stories
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A truly superb post from Peter M. Ball
Things I would do if I were planning on becoming an indie publisher…
1) LEARN TO WRITE FASTER
To put it bluntly: I wouldn’t even bother epublishing until I was routinely cranking out 2,500 to 3,000 words every day on
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At the top of the TBR pile …
… is this shiny new anthology, A Season in Carcosa, edited by Joe S. Pulver.
Published by Miskatonic University Press, it contains stories by such leading lights as Allyson Bird, Cate Gardner, Gary McMahon, Simon Stranzas, Laird Barron, Michael
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The Drawing Room
And so on Monday Oct 29th I’ll be in The Drawing Room on Radio National with Waleed Aly and Wesley Enoch, director of David Williamson’s Managing Carmen. We’ll be talking about stuff. Live to air (so, I will need to turn down my Billy Connolly dial) at 6.40pm.
In my head, The Drawing Room looks like this. Read more…
You know you’ve made it when …
… you’re on the ABC News website 😀 .And the QUT news site.
Unquotable Quotes
As we struggle to the end of all the required ‘stuff’ required to get a book out into the world, we thought we’d share some of our less-than-successful requests for cover quotes. Note: none of this
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The Maiden in the Ice
Rackham’s Undine.
Whilst walking around the park yesterday (trying to psych myself into a jog), I came up with the plot for another of The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings stories.
I’ve had the title “The Maiden in
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Good advice
8 Rules of Writing from Grandmaster Gaiman, as laid out over at Maria Popova’s Brain Pickings. 
Write
Put one word after another. Find the right word, put it down.
Finish what you’re writing. Whatever you have to do to finish
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