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  • Reminder re. the BAD POWER giveaway, this week only

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    A reminder that you, too, can win a copy of BAD POWER by answering the question: “If you had a superpower, what would it be – and why?” Answers in the comments or via email deborahb AT livejournal DOT com. Competition open until the end of the week! And if you prefer to buy your…

  • More Book Business Links

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    I woke up to a Twitterverse full of book industry talk. a) “All sorts of middle-class folks agree with the billionaire owners of sports teams that the millionaire players make too much money.” Good point, Sherman Alexie. Some interesting questions raised here about the effect of the current eReader gold rush on culture, especially for…

  • BAD POWER giveaway

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    A bunch of BAD POWER review copies arrived today & in celebration I’m giving away a copy to the best answer to the question: “If you had a superpower, what would it be – and why?” Answers in the comments or via email deborahb AT livejournal DOT com. Competition open until the end of the…

  • Book Business links

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    Here’s a quick round-up of some of the articles I’ve been reading on the whole ‘book industry’ future panic that’s going on. Mostly as a result of Amazon’s move into publishing. Which is the kind of smart capitalist move that makes a worldwide centralised marketplace so worrying. What’s Amazon worth, again – about USD$88 billion,…

  • Great Character Moments in Film #1: SIXTEEN BLOCKS

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    (With SPOILERS) I just love the turn in SIXTEEN BLOCKS, the moment Bruce Willis goes from drunk deadbeat cop to hero. The entire movie spins on that point and even the camera spins, giving us Willis’s grim, slack face and his suddenly sharp & sober eyes. And he looks around, at the new world he’s…

  • The Bad Power/Goodreads competition…

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    … closes today! There are 688 entrants, but only two winners. Will YOU be one of those winners? Not if you haven’t entered, you won’t. C’mon, be part of history, win a book!

  • In which I provide a random general update

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    So I took a few months off to do some writing. I’ve done this before, but I don’t think I’ve ever *needed* to do this as much as I needed to do it right now, this year. I’d spent a lot of time in recent years feeling inauthentic, shall we say. It’s good for my…

  • Blog: Finishing my first book for the AWWC2012

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    I’m cross-posting my first goodreads review for the Australian Women Writers Challenge 2012. I read Helen Garner’s THE SPARE ROOM in a couple of days, having left it on my ‘to read’ list for far too long. And, look, I admit up-front that I admired it more than I liked it: “A brutal, honest look…

  • Blog: AWWC 2012, Item #1

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    Yesterday was Day One of the Australian Women Writers Challenge for 2012 – & the day I commenced with Helen Garner’s THE SPARE ROOM. I’ve been meaning to read this for a long while: I loved THE CHILDREN’S BACK in the eighties as a gritty & honest look at motherhood & relationships, but then I…

  • 2012 Australian Women Writers Challenge

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    I’m taking the Australian Women Writers Challenge in 2012. Whatever your preference, whether you’re a fan of one genre or a devoted eclectic, the 2012 Australian Women Writers Book Reading & Reviewing Challenge invites you to celebrate a year encountering the best of Australian women’s writing. I’m a Dabbler (according to the rules: more than…