Monthly Archives: October 2009
Opportunities at SLQ's The Edge
Catalysts and Residents
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If you’re interested in – or even a little obsessed by – media, journalism, zines, open source, hypertexts, blogs, sound, VJing, DJing, mashups, games, writing, sustainability or any other area where creativity meets technology you might just be who
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Little Red Riding Hood – Life off the Path
This is an article I wrote – it formed part of my Masters “Black-Winged Angels” – and it appeared in Apex Science Fiction and Horror Digest #12 (March 2008). For when boredom strikes and one is feeling particularly nerdly … it has appalling bad footnotes and a bibliography, for which I apologise profusely – my academic streak is thin, if
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For I Am a Nerd
… and I love this stuff. Thanks to Brain #2 for the linkery
Once upon a time there was a world of tragic princes who had been transformed into small amphibians, beautiful princesses who were temporarily languishing in a life of drudgery, unprepossessing trolls with rights-of-way issues, and a
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A Cross-post … as opposed to a cross post
From my dear friend Lee McGowan’s blog, The Simplest Game. He is not a stupid man.
the secret is there is no secret…
It’s no secret that there’s no secret to successful relationships. Keeping the emotional credit good with the wife is, for me anyway, not that difficult really. You don’t even have to understand the great mystery that is ‘woman’. If there
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I Want THIS Job
Dream Job for this Fairytale Nerd. Of course, it’s poverty level stuff (ain’t it always?), but working in The Sussex Centre For Folklore, Fairy Tales and Fantasy? In a department with the word Hermeneutics in its title? Nerdly swoon – where’s my fainting couch?
William Gray
Professor of Literary History and Hermeneutics
Department
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The Jacaranda Wife
… looks like she’ll have a new life in a yet-to-be-named anthology of Australian folklore stories (yes, even made-up ones like mine), so in celebration here are some pics of the original Jacaranda Wife in my backyard. The old lady’s a bit smaller than she used to be, having suffered some mandatory lopping, but she’s still lovely and filled with purple.
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Finding a Literary Agent Australian-Style
What’s a literary agent do? Well, hopefully bring your work to the attention of publishers, negotiate contracts for you, negotiate the sale of rights and reprints, etc. They need to have (among other things) a superior knowledge of copyright issues, rights issues and have excellent contacts in the writing and publishing industry. They generally take 10-15% of your earnings –
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The Coming Dark at IROSF
I did an interview with some of Australia’s up and coming writers, which is now up at IROSF (thank you Stacey Janssen). Funnily enough, the day we finished this was the day the dust storms started and the sun turned red – some of Deb Biancotti’s photos of the apocalypse are there too. Here’s a taste:
The Coming Dark
Australia, as everyone knows,
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Despatch from Nerd Island
The Darkling Duo – Nahrung and McDermott
Working hard
Arrived home this morning after a lovely five and a bit days at Bribie Island with The Edge Writers Group – who invited me to join them … of course, it’s always
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