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  • A plus

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    Wow. I had to blog this straight away because … wow. Ever been disappointed with the whole plus-size-model thing? Felt like something wasn’t quite right? Here’s something that’s right. How stunning — and, importantly, how *modern* — do these women look? No more freaking ‘rubenesque’, apologetic plus-size photo shoots, thanks, world media! From now on…

  • Weeding your literary garden

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    If, like me, you have limited space in your life, then perhaps you, too, are looking for ways to eliminate those nasty little disease-carrying lurgies called BOOKS! The roomfordebate blog shows you how. Says author Chang-rae Lee, “Anthologies of fiction and poetry that have “greatest” in the title; “best” is O.K., but “greatest” usually means…

  • The year that was

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    If you asked me how I feel about 2009 being over & I started with “WooooooHOOOOOOO” and ended with “thankgod, thankgod, thankgod”, then you’d probably have a pretty clear idea of your answer. No? There were some highlights, of course. Apparently my name is now on the cover of a book (that really happened, right?)…

  • Lemme just read that again

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    “This is an original and unusual work whose purpose is to make madness” That’s what I read on the dust jacket flap for THE DIVIDED SELF, R.D. Laing’s first published examination of ‘ontological insecurity’ — the sense for some people that they’re losing themselves, becoming lost in the world. For many students of psych, Laing…

  • More on endings

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    Over at the American Book Review, they’ve made a list of 100 best last lines from novels. Most of ’em aren’t even spoilers. Some of ’em really make you wonder what the hell kinda book came BEFORE that line. Check it out. Also a note to whatever hacker tried to line up vietnameseorphansfund.org to point…

  • In general

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    I can’t believe how OLD Die Hard looks. Please, goddess, please, don’t let anyone entertain the idea of doing a re-make of this film. Not only because they’d screw it up, but also because who could possibly afford all the glass they’d need to break/smash/shoot in the action sequences? Rat-a-tat-a-tat!!! In other news: * Twelfth…

  • Chastised

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    One of the opportunities A Book of Endings created was the chance to get my writing in front of a wider audience. To see what the rest of the world might think. The Australian genre scene is so warm & welcoming that I’d grown suspicious of the kind words occasionally attributed to my work in…

  • And in today’s unusual discoveries…

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    … turns out you can still buy Redsine #7, edited by Trent Jamieson & Garry Nurrish, from about 2002. I loved Redsine and always wished it had continued for longer. It was a classy zine, and short (a good characteristic for a zine, imho: one-sitting-reading always scores well with me). And I love it not…

  • Readers and writers and short stories

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    Honestly? I got into short stories because it seemed like a good way to learn to write. It’s become much more than that, of course, but I’ve not paused very often to think about what place they do have for me, and further what place they have for readers. I’ve been surprised by the amount…

  • Pretty things

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    I love a good Friday night off from social engagement, committment, plans, duties, things-to-do. A Friday night on the lounge with a good book and some Law and Order episodes on TV. And I love new pretty links. Today: Looking for business card inspiration, I found this awesomeness: http://creativebits.org/cool_business_card_designs Looking for the gift for the…