Read / September 11th, 2008
Yesterday afternoon I got a package delivered to my door. Two advance copies of Surprise! I wasn’t expecting it, so it was a nice surprise (boom-tish!) It feels surreal, I must say. It feels a whole lot of things actually – things I’m still too sick to properly be able to distinguish from each other…
Read / September 2nd, 2008
Here you go, guys. If you’ve got a spare 12 minutes or so, enjoy. The first video is about writing and blogging. Or writing vs blogging, as the case may be and often is. The second video focuses more on my upcoming book Surprise! At the end of my session I did do a reading…
Sorry about the latter part of Saturday’s post. You see, my mother was here last week to help; ostensibly to give me time to get out and do some jobs I wouldn’t otherwise be able to. However, I spent a good part of her visit biting my nails, frozen. Uncertain. ****** Last week I walked…
I mentioned last month that I was asked to run a blogging workshop. Here are a few more of the details: “Personal blogging can help a writer in many ways: practice your craft, increase your public profile and gain general confidence. Karen’s workshop will cover all these aspects for those who are beginning their blogging…
Inside this EXTREMELY URGENT package is a complete plotter set* for Surprise! as well as some konica proofs** for some specific pages, including the cover, for me to approve prior to final printing release. I’m very glad they sent it – in the book, on the last page, is a lift-the-flap (think the Spot books)…
Back in the day, back when my Technorati was very respectable, and I played the ‘blogging game’ a bit better than I have the time (or the inclination) to do so these days, I made my way onto several “TOP BLOGGER” lists. Remarkably, miraculously, I remain on some of these lists and, in turn, have somehow found my…
[*no, I’m not talking about Kasey Chambers. Catchy title, though, so I’m going to borrow it.] Yesterday: The Good: An expression of interest was made in pre-ordering my book; this will end up being a number somewhere over 50 copies, which is wonderful. The Bad: I received a letter in the mail from a book…
Update: The entire program can be found in today’s The Age newspaper. My session is in there, but my author profile didn’t make it (although I think they did warn me that might happen). Now I just have to try and decide what other sessions I’d like to go to. Anyone else going? Who are you…
My father yesterday hopped on a plane and came down for a few days to help me as I slowly, so very slowly, begin recovering from WhateverthehellvirusfromSatan’slaboratory which has knocked me around for over a week. This was a lovely gesture, and I thank him dearly; however the day so far, whenever I try to…
