So where do you get your ideas from? This is the question most guaranteed to set a dedicated author’s eyes rolling. I mean, duh, creative people pluck them out of everywhere, don’t you know: the aether, their hair, their arses, … Continue reading
Lilith Saintcrow has written a brilliant column over here about paranormal fantasy – AKA angry chicks in leather. She addresses some really interesting issues of feminism and perceptions of gender in literature, and talks about how liberating it is to … Continue reading
As I need a break from a certain novella writing project – which, in my mind, has highlighted some of my problems as a writer, I thought I’d write about them here. I’m not a very methodical writer – which … Continue reading
Lilith Saintcrow has written a brilliant column over here about paranormal fantasy – AKA angry chicks in leather. She addresses some really interesting issues of feminism and perceptions of gender in literature, and talks about how liberating it is to … Continue reading
We write because we love it. But we also we write because we have the ideal reader in our heads who ‘gets’ our stories/books. But how do we reach readers? We ROR writers are all readers who love the speculative … Continue reading
Hi! I admit it, I’m a blogging virgin. I’ve been a member of the ROR group for several years now, though I wasn’t there at the start. It’s great to be part of a critique group of professionals, especially critiquing … Continue reading
Have you ever had one of those days, where you work flat out from the moment you get up and when you go to bed, your life is more complicated than when you got up?
My Aurealis Award Shortlisted Story “Delivery” is now online at Cosmos, so you can experience it free. It’s the only skiffy story I wrote last year, and it’s got cool spaceships, science*, and everything. Check it out. *pseudo and not … Continue reading
I’m the badly behaved one of the ROR group. I’m also the one they turn to when they want to be fed properly. This is going to be a challenge for me. Though I already keep an electronic journal elsewhere, … Continue reading
I’m currently putting together my acquittal form for the Arts Tasmania grant I received this year, to write a gothic Tasmanian history YA called “Three Janes and a Haunting.” As well as filling out forms to talk about the successes … Continue reading