Read / December 11th, 2009
Sharni asked me some questions about blogging. Here are my answers.
Read / December 1st, 2009
I was photographed last week by one of the local papers regarding the upcoming 25th anniversary of the Alan Marshall Short Story Award. Here is the short article I suspected that the angle of the shot, and the laws of gravity, would not be friendly to my face, and I was correct. I now have the…
Read / November 25th, 2009
Earlier this week I was asked by my friend Lisa to do a guest post regarding the ‘hows’ and ‘whys’ I monetise this blog and it’s now available to read. While you’re there you should take a look at the rest of the series she’s running this week called “Writers, money and the web.” There’s been some…
Read / November 2nd, 2009
Some of you may have seen the show Electric Dreams on television last night – it was about this family that had their house transformed into a replica of one from the 1970s, thus taking out nearly all modern comforts and gadgets. The first time the family returned to their house there were the usual shrieks…
Read / October 28th, 2009
Yesterday a post I’d written about my Miscellaneous Voices project went up over at Overland. It really only scratches the surface of what can be said about the increasing confluence of online/offline writing and what wider significance this might hold in store for the reading (and writing) populace. Anyway, come and have a look and…
Read / October 26th, 2009
I must say, these are pretty darn cool. These were drawn by Surprise!‘s newest fan, a five year old boy in the class of a teacher friend of mine. The likeness to several of the pictures in Surprise! is quite plain. I’m impressed!
Judging from the books about blogs and the Internet*, you can probably tell I’m still pondering this subject a week after asking you all what you thought about an Australian Blogging Conference? By the way, on that thought, I’d like to thank you all for getting back to me with your ideas and comments on…
Read / October 16th, 2009
This weekend marks the one year anniversary of the book launch of Surprise! (I’m linking to Kim because she got the best shots!) (If you want a behind-the-scenes look of the day, go here) This weekend also marks the last time dad ever made it down to visit. I remember him being there at the…
October 9 (in the USA) sees the premiere of the above documentary about Eddie Izzard, and I happened to come across this trailer quite by accident the other night on YouTube. Which annoyed me a little, because then tiny bells started ringing in my head that I knew something about this already, but forgot to…
