Tag: writing
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Waking in Winter give-away!
To celebrate my guest post on Mary Robinette Kowal‘s My Favorite Bit series AND the recent Kindle eBook launch of Waking in Winter on Amazon, I’ve launched a giveaway! ONE hardcover copy of Waking in Winter will be available *worldwide*. That’s right. You could be anywhere, & I’ll post you a book. I’ll even sign…
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Another Waking in Winter update
In news today, my SF Signal guest post is LIVE! Whereupon I wax lyrical (or not) about the setting for a sorely under-appreciated little telemovie called A Cold Night’s Death–& various other tangentially related thoughts around the topic of icy, remote research stations in fiction. Also today, the first reader review is LIVE! Stephanie Gunn…
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Two quick WiW updates
Two updates for my novella Waking in Winter (WiW, for those in the know): The latest PS Publishing newsletter links to a video interview I did about Waking in Winter. Please admire the warm red wall of my loungeroom! I broke my camera tripod setting this up, so I can’t watch the video without feeling…
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Winter is Coming
Okay, first I steal the title of my new novella, Waking in Winter, from Sylvia Plath. THEN I steal the title of this post from Game of Thrones. Have I no shame*?! Next week I’ll share the opening paragraphs of Waking in Winter on the blog. But first, I wanted to remind you that the…
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Exotic Gothic 5: pre-orderable and pretty amazing
Let me be up-front and say: this blog post exists solely to show off the awesome covers and awesome contents of Exotic Gothic 5, available in TWO BIG VOLUMES OF GOTHIC GOODNESS available for pre-order from PS Publishing. Buy Volume 1, Volume 2, or both in a slipcase. And hurry, because this may well be…
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Blog: Choosing your reality
She says: “I have to get back to real life again. It wasn’t an easy decision, because it took a lot to get to the stage of being a published author. But during my teacher training so far, I’ve dealt with so much – flooded schools, fire alarms going off, children being sick …” And,…
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McKee & me
One marvellous thing I did for myself recently was buy membership of Robert McKee’s one-day Thriller seminar in Melbourne. As far back as – I think – 2004 I did a similar trip, heading to Melbourne for McKee’s Horror seminar. It was the most invigorating day of story I had that year and for possibly…
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The War of Art
Years ago I stumbled across Steven Pressfield’s THE WAR OF ART (no, I didn’t write that down wrong) & loved it. Loved its passion & determination. Loved it so much I bought a copy for a friend’s birthday. Only to shortly hear that he didn’t want gifts that birthday. So I shelved it until an…
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December! 2010!
What. A. Year. It’s pretty much done: one more day of day-job, several weeks of resting AND writing, and then back for another round in 2011. January seems so long ago I can’t even remember what I wanted to get out of this year. Of course, I *should* have written myself a message at futureme.org,…
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The irony of writing: Joss Whedon
Not so shiny: Plenty of drama for Buffy creator Joss Whedon — Bernard Zuel, Sydney Morning Herald, August 25, 2010 More seriously, he says that the cancellation of Firefly not only made him “the sourest man alive” but had an unexpected and potentially devastating side effect. “I stopped having ideas, which for me is an…