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  • Chocolate Friday

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    Today I had a chocolate bar. Which is not of interest in & of itself, except with relation to the fact that I rarely eat chocolate bars & don’t even remember the last time I ate a chocolate bar or what that chocolate bar might’ve been. But today I was tired enough that the charity…

  • Woohoo!

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    How cool, A BOOK OF ENDINGS has made the shortlist for the 2010 William L. Crawford Award! I’m assured the readers are ‘very picky’, so a heartfelt *hug* and congratulations to fellow short-listers, Kari Sperring (LIVING WITH GHOSTS), and Ali Shaw (THE GIRL WITH GLASS FEET — wow, I love this title) and an even…

  • AA-ed

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    It was bittersweet being at the LAST Fantastic Queensland AA ceremony. Before FQ took over, I never even attended an AA event. But they made such a classy event out of it that eventually I found I couldn’t NOT attend. I’m looking forward to hearing which brave souls take up the baton. (I was about…

  • Big

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    Hahaha, this Skribit business is already paying off, with a new suggestion received at other.blog today (thanks, Liz!). So: up next (soon-ish) will be Albert Camus. But first: Australia is BIG, people! See, I told you.

  • Feeling social (media)

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    Have been filling my site with all kinds of social media widgets lately (I mean the site over at deborahbiancotti.net, with attendant wordpress blog, in case you’re reading this in lj — which I haven’t gotten around to updating yet). And so I’ve now borrowed Liz Argall‘s cool widget & added Skribit to my WordPress…

  • Getting through

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    For anyone who tried the livejournal email address overnight: my apologies. I had to execute some command or other to get it working (again, I may’ve turned that off some years back & forgotten). However, both email addresses are now working, & your request for copies of the BSFA-nominated stories ‘Problems of Light and Dark’…

  • Well, that’s kinda cool

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    Look at that, two of the new stories from A Book of Endings (now available, etc) are on the nomination list for the British SF Awards. Woot! *Not* the shortlist, I hasten to add. It simply means, I think, that some kind member(s) of the British SF Association has (er, have) nominated ‘Diamond Shell’ and…

  • David Mitchell’s Rat

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    Yes, yes, we all love David Mitchell. How can we not? The man’s a bloody genius. For proof: a story about a rat and a divorce. Thank-you, Guardian. I love you. Today is typically Sydney: both overcast AND muggy. To compensate I am watching In Treatment Season 2, which is frikking awesome. Maybe more awesome…

  • I remember now

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    I was gonna say, my stars are warning me that I’ll be very happy this year, provided I’m not too prescriptive in what I want. Man. I only just got through setting those goals. In other news, I went into Dymocks today to spend some of my Xmas book voucher on CM Priest’s BONESHAKER, &…

  • Forward and back

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    Ahhhhh, January, welcome back. With the last precious few days of my holiday running out, I’m fighting off the organising-the-year blues (insurances, taxes, gym, house maintenance) & trying to make the most of what I gots while I gots it. “The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with,…