I’ve just been told I will be unable to get an advance copy of Surprise! back by the time the Melbourne Writer’s Festival rolls around at the end of next month. Not that I was really thinking of doing a reading of it to a room full of adults – not unless they were happy to…
We’ll all be speaking at next month’s Melbourne Writers Festival. The program isn’t officially launched until next week and my spot isn’t 100% set yet, but it looks like I will be on Sunday 31st August in the evening at the Festival Club (ACMI). I will be doing a reading of some of my work (not sure…
Sick of all the writing talk yet? Yeah, me too, a little bit. What’s left then? Well, let’s see, I was in a minor car accident yesterday. We’re all fine, thank heavens, but the car is being towed away today to get fixed because it is undriveable (luckily I was able to get it home,…
No, not this I read the other day that Brad Pitt’s new tattoo (and I think it’s the above one) was drawn first upon his back by Angelina, and that they liked it so much, they converted it into permanent form. Lucky she drew something so…abstract, then. If I’d let my husband near my back…
I have not loved well this week. Not well, nor hard. Or right, I feel. My temper is short and all attention has been channelled towards completing THE BOOK. This project, hereafter referred to in metaphoric form as ‘The War’, has been won through long, concerted battles and my children have been the innocent victims;…
Here’s the link I apologise about the quality of the scan – well, the scan was fine, but I couldn’t figure out a way to drop the file size without sacrificing the final resolution of the jpg. Sorry. You will also see I’ve blacked out the particular suburb I live in. I’m sure you understand why.
I have always felt rather at home on a university campus. All the ones I’ve ever been to look pretty much the same – sad concrete boxes with brown glass windows; the gardens surrounding them, if there’s a budget for gardening to start with, always offer a stark contrast back upon their inorganic, decrepit neighbours….
