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  • Flying just got less fun

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    Snakes on a plane — for real. (So they say. Who trusts the mainstream media anymore?) Fumigated the little devils to death. Wouldn’t you just love to be on THAT plane now, eh? *cough* *cough* *gasp for breath*

  • Covering up

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    OK, so I’m getting a little obsessed with cover art (ever since Nick Stathopoulos turned in the fabulous A Book of Endings cover!). Yesterday I spent a couple hours staring at these sites: http://www.thebookdesignreview.com http://shelvedbooks.blogspot.com http://henryseneyee.blogspot.com I also followed various links, finding myself in a world of cover debate. Including a link to a rant…

  • Hallett’s Marmalade

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  • Tall glass of water

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    Typing has been slowed at chateau deborahb owing to an altercation with a glass of cold water over the weekend. It’s hard to say who won. Me, I ended up with five stitches in my wrist (& post-traumatic flashbacks to the moment I thought I was dead). The glass of water, however, wound up in…

  • A Book of Endings gets a cover!

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    It’s here! Nick Stathopoulos has done something really special — and really quite different to his usual work — to create this striking, modern, urban cover. A far cry from his trademark surreal landscapes or beautiful portraits. I love it! Buy the book, get yourself a Nick Stathopoulos cover. There’ll be stuff inside, of course,…

  • Job lot

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    There’s something reassuring about being jobless in a sea of joblessness. Nobody asks you much about *why* you’re jobless. The same string of suspicious questions you usually face about your peripatetic approach to the day job don’t come up. Oh, sure, they still pose the usual ‘why did you leave your last role’, but once…

  • Sworling, swirling and whorling

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    Why isn’t there more use of the word ‘sworl’? (Yes, these are the questions that obsess writers.) I thought it was reasonably common, but several searches of the online dictionaries reveal two things: a) it’s not reasonably common, & b) the only online Australian dictionary I could find charges a subscription fee. Consequently I am…

  • “please bring either an umbrella or a frozen spatchcock –“

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    “– and some toothpicks.” Yes! Fans of the mysterious Craig unite! He’s finally creating headlines with his bizarre street signs (though another article says the signs haven’t been seen for some time). Craig should be easy to spot. His favourite costume is “a pirate outfit on the top half but has clown pants and big…

  • It’s my birthday!

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    Which leads to one crucial question: where is the best cake in Sydney?

  • Not that I needed to expand my reading list

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    BUT lots of interesting reading suggested at SF Signal. In this case, non-genre titles for genre readers. And there’s also recommendations on literary fiction for people who hate literary fiction at Emerald City.