In an effort to bring some balance back into my blogging ways, I created at the beginning of the year a sort of mantra: ‘Dig Deeper, Move Less Earth‘. From the original post: My ‘I’ is the Karen that wants to dig, yes. But deeper. See a point through; formulate an idea to its end….
fashion faux-pas for dad Your socks are pulled high (mid-calf) It’s hard to distinguish between the gradients of white; where cotton ends and skin begins Varicoid veins are gathered behind your knee like posies of blue flowers You turn, sit, open the broadsheet pages crossing your legs, make a table for your newspaper snort phlegm…
Federation Square, setting of the Melbourne Writers’ Festival* Gauging from the audience questions (both during, and those coming people up to me afterwards) at our ‘Author as Brand’ session yesterday, it seems this subject is a hot one. I’m not surprised. I suppose it goes back to that old catch-22: to get a publisher,…
Riley sees little point in those balance bikes for children. Have you seen them? The ones without pedals? We borrowed one from the toy library this week so he could try it, but the borrowing was done with less than a want on his part, and more by coercion on ours. I daresay I was…
Reproduced with Express Media’s kind permission from over at Facebook *** Express Media @ Signal for 13 – 20 year olds, but older people welcome! Once an abandoned train signal box, Signal is now an exciting new arts studio, designed exclusively for the creative ideas of 13 – 20 year olds. Come inside this box…
I’ve been asked a few times lately to give my thoughts on the rise of mummyblogging / parenting blogs in Australia and the power and attention these are starting to get from marketing and PR companies. In all honesty, I’ve not been much help as this subject does not rate high up in my list…
I have, at last count, at least ten such notebooks like you see above. They all date from various years of my life. The smaller one at the top is (one) of the notebooks I wrote my second fantasy novel in in longhand. Yes, the coffee cup stain tells you about my working habits. The one…
It’s my great delight today to introduce to you the Illustrator for Surprise! – Kim Fleming Last weekend I finally got to meet up with Kim and I must admit I was so happy and relieved that we both have the same sorts of ideas for Surprise! I suppose because I wrote it and have…
I’ve had a few people ask me how I feel when I get rejection slips in the mail for my writing. Honestly, it doesn’t bother me much. Well, sometimes it can. This one was the first: a good ‘stock rejection’, non-personalised (well, I suppose it counts as personal if the title is tacked on in biro). At…
