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Highly Useful Courses
The Queen herself, Kim Wilkins, is teaching for QWC again. All hail!
There’s the Express Year of the Novel, the Year of the Edit and the Year of the Novel Online (YONline 3). The first two are members only courses, but the third can be done by anyone, anywhere, with access to t’internet.
Go here for a look-see http://www.qwc.asn.au/Shop/List/1.aspx
Writers and Money
Having had the pain a couple of weeks ago of listening to a newbie writer complaining ‘Why do we need to know this business stuff?” I’m gonna plug this issue right now.
WQ has put out The Money
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Hit the ZOMG Button!
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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The Dead Path – Again
So, I’ve been released from some of my more onerous editing duties (briefly) and I’ve been able to pick up Stephen M Irwin’s The Dead Path again.
I’m halfway through after a day of varied ‘stuff’ (including Write-Club), but I’ve been reading steadily.
And it’s freaking awesome!! Not only is the gentleman in question the nicest man in Australian horror, he’s also a
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The Awesome Kim Wilkins on The Science of Editing and Autopsying Puppies
Kim Wilkins is not only annoyingly talented, productive and good-looking, she’s also very, very clever on matters of writing and such. So have a look at this for some most excellent hints and advice on editing.
The science of editing
I’ve just finished my first edit of “Field of Clouds” and the whole process went really well. Now it’ll go off to my
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On the (ig)Noble Art of Sacrifice
My clever friend, Kim Wilkins (beautiful talented successful writer, academic, award-winner, mother of two – hate her yet? http://fantasticthoughts.wordpress.com/) made a comment today that got me thinking (sometimes it happens, me thinking). On FB last night, I said I was going to bed with the editing, and she commented that she sometimes read my status updates and imagined me
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Home from NatCon and here are the Ditmars
Results of the Ditmars are below … more comments will follow about NatCon, but that will be tomorrow when my brain is talking to me again … I only got off the plane an hour ago.
A. Bertram Chandler Award
Rosaleen Love
William Atheling Jr Award for Criticism and Review
Kim Wilkins, an article about Australian fantasy fiction in the Journal of Australian
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