If you can get a mentorship this is an opportunity not to be missed. Working with a published writer, who can guide you to help you write the best book you can at this point in your career will help … Continue reading
Vision member Gary Kemble announced this week that he had received an OZCo (Australian Literature Board) Grant. So I grabbed him and said, Gary, please tell us how you did it! A bit about Gary: Gary Kemble is a speculative … Continue reading
I’m being virtuous. Here I am even with my structural edits for book three (The Business of Death) due tomorrow, and I’ve been frantically getting them done, even though I have new stories I want to work on – writers … Continue reading
While attending Aussie Con 4, Leanne C Taylor took her lap top to each panel and made notes. She had kindly offered to share what she gleaned with us. Take it away, Leanne. When I first heard about the World … Continue reading
I’m always suspicious of people who profess a mastery of writing. Mastery’s a very slippery term. And when you start spreading that so called mastery around as some sort of writ, rather than a possibility among a multitude of possibilities, … Continue reading
Our very own Marianne de Pierres in her guise as Marianne Delacourt has won the Davitt award for book one of her Tara Sharp series. The Davitt Award is run by Sisters in Crime and is in its 10th year. … Continue reading
NOTE: As Chris just pointed out to me, today is the 15th of September. Very sorry about this, I lost track of the weeks. The Scribe Fiction Prize is annual, so look out for it next year. The Scribe $15,000 … Continue reading
Having escaped my work and family for about 10 days I went to the World SF Con but first we did our 2010 Melbourne ROR where, Dirk, Richard and Maxine confirmed what I had suspected about my latest book. Luckily, … Continue reading
Let me misquote Douglas Adams and start out by saying the World Con is big, like really really big. In the US it can be 5,000 to 7,000 attendees, while in Australia this World Con had around 2,500 attendees. This … Continue reading