Category Archives: On Writing: General

So You Want to Write for A Franchise, Or Thanks for My New Kitchen, Mr Lucas: in the Lair with Karen Miller and Sean Williams

As readers of this column know, we regularly and without thought of consequences, kidnap our guests by means of a malfunctioning vortex manipulator. The problem with doing this to people who write Star Wars novels is that they tend to have their own working
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Women’s History Month over at Gillian’s place

Dr Gillian Polack has been running a series of guest posts over on her blog for Women’s History Month. There’s a whole bunch from folk such as Lisa Hannett, Sue Isle and Donna Maree Hanson.

Mine is there today, about one of my fave painters,
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Ursula Le Guin on the Death of the Book being very much exaggerated

Over at Book View Cafe, the legendary Le Guin talks books, reading on screen and writing ‘What tosh’ in margins.

People love to talk about the death of whatever — the book, or history, or Nature, or God, or authentic Cajun cuisine. Eschatologically-minded people do, anyhow.

After I wrote that,
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Tuesday Therapy at the Hannettorium

Joanne Anderton talks disconnecting over here.

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Reign of Tansy: Tuesday Therapy

Meanwhile, over at the Hannettorium …

… the delightful and terribly clever Dr Tansy Rayner Roberts talks small goals.

Huzzah!

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New Sourdough news!

I’m very happy to announce that Tartarus Press has produced a paperback version of my sold-out collection, Sourdough and Other Stories.

Available here.

*snoopy dance*

“These stories are stupendously good.” Paul Kane, The Compulsive Reader

“There is magic in this world.” Rick Kleffel’s Agony Column

“An absolute treasure.” Paul
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And over here …

… the lovely Angie Rega of the Amberjacks writing group talks about some ‘new’ fairy tales.

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Tuesday Therapy

Over at the Hannettorium, Allyson Bird (she of the Stoker-shortlisted Isis Unbound) mediates on censorship, writing and, whether there will be a cull of horror writers!

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Discovered …

… at Adelaide Writers’ Week: Megan Abbott.

Hard-boiled noir thrillers from a female point of view.

Awesome writing, succinct, harsh, powerful and just downright devastating.

Read two in the last two days, I have one left and one coming in the mail … I will need to
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In today’s Tuesday Therapy: Cat Sparks

Over at the Hannettorium, Cat talks zone and rhythym.

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