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Monday, January 25, 2010

WRITERS: ON NOT ALIENATING YOUR MARKET

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I found the above image on a blog called The Physics Geek, which had got it from somewhere else, while I was looking for a cliched image of ...
Wednesday, January 20, 2010

F2M: The boy within. By Hazel Edwards and Ryan Kennedy. Melbourne, Ford Street, 2010.

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Eighteen-year-old Skye is a member of an all-girl punk rock band. Skye has never felt like a girl. Inside, (s) he is Finn, a boy. Making th...
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Emel Alp Sari - new link

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Recently, I got a "friend" request from SCBWI (Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators) from someone of whom I...
Tuesday, January 19, 2010

What I'm re-reading #3: Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone

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I have read this series many times, mainly because it's my comfort reading, like the books of Tolkien, Kerry Greenwood and Terry Pratche...
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Monday, January 18, 2010

JESSICA’S GUIDE TO DATING ON THE DARK SIDE By Beth Fantaskey. Camberwell:Penguin, 2010

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Jessica Packwood knows she was adopted as a baby by the Packwoods, who were in Romania at the time, studying a local culture. She has grown ...
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Saturday, January 09, 2010

HARRY, A HISTORY By Melissa Anelli. London: Penguin, 2008

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Some time in the late 1970s, I went with my family to the airport to wait for my aunt to arrive. It was going to be a long wait and I went f...
Wednesday, January 06, 2010

Forbidden Fruit by Kerry Greenwood. Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 2009. ISBN 9781741759822

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This is the latest novel about the baker Corinna Chapman, who runs her bakery, Earthly Delights, in the middle of Melbourne, with the help o...
Saturday, December 26, 2009

On Writing and Agents

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I write. I haven't got one. An agent, that is. I did have one, sort of, for a short time, a nice lady in Perth, who did try, but didn...
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Monday, December 21, 2009

MY LOVE LIES BLEEDING By Alyxandra Harvey. London: Bloomsbury, 2010

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Lucy and Solange have been friends since childhood. Lucy’s parents are hippyish New Agers who make her eat tofu. Solange has a large number ...
Tuesday, December 15, 2009

THE OTHER SIDE OF THE SLUSHPILE#2 By a grumpy Andromeda Spaceways slusher

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I am still reading slush for A ndromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine (aka ASIM). I read them as a reader, not as an editor. I ask myself, “...
Saturday, December 05, 2009

UNSEEN ACADEMICALS By Terry Pratchett. London: Transworld, 2009

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Who would have thought it? They play football in Ankh-MorporK! Well, there were those street urchin games run by Captain Carrot, it’s true. ...
Thursday, December 03, 2009

Of Qualified Teacher-librarians

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Below is a link to a petition that has been running on-line in Australia. I am a qualified teacher-librarian. In Victoria, we've been a ...
Tuesday, December 01, 2009

PASTWORLD By Ian Beck. London: Bloomsbury, 2009

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The year is 2048. Daily life is a bore - except in Pastworld. The whole of London has become a Victorian-era theme park, complete with nigh...
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Saturday, November 28, 2009

THE GENIUS WARS By Catherine Jinks. Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 2009

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It began with Evil Genius , in which orphan Cadel Piggott was being raised to become a criminal matermind. As part of this, he was sent to t...
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Friday, November 20, 2009

A Day At The Opera - AIDA without Elephants

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I've used this opera in my fiction, in a short story called "Nefer", in which a cat mummy follows a kid home from the museum, ...
Thursday, November 12, 2009

Seeing Things Differently.SLAV Conference November 13 2009

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I have just been to this year's end-of-year library conference. I usually hold out for this one, because, unlike the earlier ones, it...
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Saturday, November 07, 2009

HEART’S BLOOD By Juliet Marillier. Sydney: Pan Macmillan, 2009.

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Young scribe Caitrin, fleeing an unwanted marriage with a violent cousin, finds herself on Whistling Tor, whose chieftain, Anluan, needs a s...
Monday, November 02, 2009

AND ANOTHER THING … Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy. Part Six of Three. By Eoin Colfer. Camberwell, Penguin, 2009.

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I first discovered The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy when I was studying librarianship, many years ago. We used to throw quotes at ea...
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Thursday, October 29, 2009

WHO WASHES THE DISHES IN RIVENDELL? THOSE ARISTOCRATIC ELVES

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This was written for a fanzine, some time ago. I can't recall which one, alas! But I think it's worth a re-visit. I have recently re...
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Thursday, October 22, 2009

Jacinta washes dishes for the tsunami victims

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It's nearly 4.00 p.m. on a Friday afternoon. I am the last person left in the library. The last three weeks have been exhausting if sati...