Monthly Archives: June 2015
QWC / Hachette Australia Manuscript Development Program 2015
This highly useful program is open once again, so if your novel is ready (i.e. edited and proofread and carefully plotted with well-rounded, believable characters), then enter!
WHAT IS THE PROGRAM?
Up to 10 emerging fiction and non-fiction writers will work with editors from Hachette
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Corvidae cover reveal
And now here is the cover for the latest from Rhonda Parrish and World Weaver Press!
Associated with life and death, disease and luck, corvids have long captured mankind’s attention, showing up in mythology as the companions or manifestations
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Echoes of Empire: Mark Barnes
The delightful and talented Mr Mark Barnes was kind enough to chat with me about his Echoes of Empire trilogy and a wide variety of other stuff. He is most excellent and has three rescue cats, Odin, Sif and Frey.
What do readers
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The Sourdough Posts: A Porcelain Soul
“Poupée c 1870” by Photo: Andreas Praefcke – Self-photographed. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons – https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Poup%C3%A9e_c_1870.jpg#/media/File:Poup%C3%A9e_c_1870.jpg
While reading for my MA I came across a piece by Rainer Maria Rilke called “Some Reflections on Dolls”, and it
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Over at the Place of Mark Barnes: On the Importance of Being Edited (and Editing)
Author’s own mess.
The lovely Mr Mark Barnes asked if I’d write a short blog post for him about how important editing is to your work at every stage. I wrote a lot. May contain ranting, but
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Movies and Memories
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I spent yesterday being unwell and so curled up for some quality time on the couch. I watched three of the Hammer Horror Dracula movies, which seemed appropriate given Christopher Lee’s recent demise, and his place in my
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HORROROLOGY: THE LEXICON OF FEAR
And here’s another secret I’ve been sitting on for ages, the new anthology from Stephen Jones and Jo Fletcher Books Horrorology: The Lexicon of Fear, with cover art and internals by Mr Clive Barker.
And yes, I’ve
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Of Sorrow and Such cover reveal
The things that happen on the other side of the world while you’re fast asleep! Tor.com revealed the cover for my novella Of Sorrow and Such. The artwork is by the wonderful Anna and
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The Sourdough Posts: A Good Husband
Random mermaid by Kathleen Jennings
“A Good Husband” came from my researches into water creatures. I didn’t want quite a mermaid because, well, everyone’s got a mermaid (note: yes, I know all the art
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