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I used to watch a lot of movies. I used to know a fair bit about the history of movies, too. In fact, my original chosen minor at university was supposed to be film studies. It said it was available in the 1996 UAC guide, I swear. However when it came to enrollment week, once…
My sister-in-law gave me a Borders gift voucher for my birthday. I went in there the other week to buy The Slap and I swear it was in my hand when the warm pink cover of McSweeney’s on the adjacent shelf captivated me like a Siren’s call. (Yes, I mixed the metaphor {sight/sound}. Oops, never mind)…
Been tinkering with my feeds, since Google asked me too. Hope this works. Thinking of America this weekend with the inauguration xx
Read / January 18th, 2009
Here’s a good post of how not to send query letters to literary agents (One day I might post my successful one here) Planning Queen reminds me yet again why I need to dust off my menu plans Sarah happens to be one of the finest writers around. She’s been on my reading list since I began…
Read / January 17th, 2009
If anyone else sees Surprise! on the shelves of their local bookstores, please let me know. I’m impressed with Dymocks so far. I know Borders in Melbourne has had it somewhere because it’s in their system. (I looked it up. I’m shameless) A&R I’m not sure about.
Keira is watching Sesame Street and the letter of the day is ‘O’. Keira: Mum, what does ‘O’ and ‘H’ spell? Me: It spells ‘Oh’ Keira: But what do they spell together? Me: The word, ‘Oh’ Keira (confused): Oh… Me: You see! There you go, you said it right! Keira dropped it there; I think…
Like a fog, I’m just going to walk into this post and hope I come out at the other side in the right place. ****** One beginning of the story is with my vomiting last Friday night, all night, and then sleeping all the following day, desperate to recoup enough in time to make an…
Well dream no longer. You could. The media is loving this story. Heck, I might even apply.
