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Thursday, May 29, 2008

The Book and Me

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When I took long service leave, I'd hoped to get a book to write while I was away from work. I had taken an extravagant twelve weeks, on...
Saturday, April 05, 2008

Trust Me! Published by Ford Street Publishing

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Okay, I can't review this book, because I have a story in it. Still, I can't resist giving it a plug. It started life as an antholog...
Monday, March 31, 2008

New YA fiction series begins!

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GIRLFRIEND FICTION 1 and 2: MY LIFE AND OTHER CATASTROPHES By Rowena Mohr and THE INDIGO GIRLS By Penni Russon When I began my first job as...
Saturday, March 15, 2008

Books and Writing: SCBWI conference, Sydney (1)

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Books and Writing: SCBWI conference, Sydney (1) This is a link to Sherryl Clark's con report, a lot tighter-written than mine! Both type...

Sydney SCBWI Conference, February 23-24, 2008

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This was the second conference in Australia of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. Like last time, it was held at t...
Tuesday, January 08, 2008

STRIDE’S SUMMER By Jenni Overend

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Allen and Unwin, Crow’s Nest, NSW, 2007. 163 p. It starts with a funeral - Stride’s father’s - and pouring rain. Stride’s father Frank, a f...
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Monday, January 07, 2008

Review: Teeth Marks By Rose Moxham

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It starts with a bicycle crash. Nick, the crash victim, ends up on his back in the local hospital, remembering how it all happened, in flash...
Saturday, December 15, 2007

Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony By Eoin Colfer. Published by Penguin Books.

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ARTEMIS FOWL AND THE LOST COLONY By Eoin Colfer When Artemis Fowl first came out, it was, as usual for children’s books at the time, acclaim...
Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Technorati Claim

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This is for my Technorati claim, to give this site more prominence. Technorati Profile
Saturday, October 27, 2007

Before The Storm By Sean McMullen

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BEFORE THE STORM By Sean McMullen This is one of the first two books to be published by Ford St Publishing, a new company formed by Australi...
Friday, October 05, 2007

On seeing a movie of a beloved book

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All I can say, after watching the movie supposedly based on Susan Cooper's The Dark Is Rising is - thank goodness J.K. Rowling had contr...
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Wednesday, October 03, 2007

New link added - Moira Dahlberg

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Moira Dahlberg is a Western Australian teacher, writer and science fiction fan. I met her through Blake's Seven fandom and remember her ...

Fremantle Impressions review

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This review is currently awaiting publication by January Magazine. January Magazine has quite a big backlog of my reviews and I have kept th...
Sunday, September 23, 2007

Review: Heart of Gold

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This review has been sent to January Magazine and will probably be published there sooner or later, but probably later, as there are a numbe...
Saturday, September 08, 2007

Vale Centero!

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Centero is no more, alas! I remember getting my first copy of what was then a print newsletter centred around Blake’s Seven, which was the r...
Friday, July 20, 2007

Me 'N Harry

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In a few hours, I will be going to the offices of Allen and Unwin in East Melbourne to collect my reviewer's copy of the very last Harry...
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Friday, June 29, 2007

Further musings on the slushpile and rejections

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I'm one who has seen the slushpile from both sides - I have made a number of sales, books, short stories, articles, though I have receiv...
Friday, May 18, 2007

Collected Works Bookshop - 84 Charing Cross Rd in Melbourne

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I have just added a link to the new web site/blog of the Collected Works Poetry and Ideas Bookshop. It's located in Melbourne in the Nic...
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Tuesday, May 08, 2007

Nullus Anxietas - Australia's first Discworld Con

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This is my report of a con held at the Carlton Crest Hotel, Melbourne, February 2007. I hadn't planned to go. It was almost the last min...
Saturday, April 28, 2007

The Last Days - review

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Although this book is new in Australia, where the author spends part of every year, it has appeared in the US already, in 2006. I thought it...