A few years ago, my husband and I were living in a tiny unit with our two young kids, and it was bathtime. Our bathroom had so little ventilation that unless we left both the window and door open, mould would grow on the ceiling from trapped steam. While Hubbie…
It’s my birthday today. Woo hoo! To celebrate, I have a gift… for you. It’s another blog post over on the Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild blog – lucky you!! This time I’m talking about how to manage your writing time efficiently… Time – as writers it’s probably our most precious commodity.…
This week I’m over on Need Help Write Now being interviewed by the very lovely and influential Eda Utku about my favourite books, geography, themes I explore in my writing, inspiration and my next writing project… Spotlight on Zena Shapter Zena Shapter is a British-English fiction writer, published author and…
Have you ever wondered how we’re going to properly navigate this new ocularcentric culture of ours, where the semiotic landscape is dominated by the visual? What is the future of language when it’s becoming so entwined with such plural literacies? Well, Jessica Frawley, a researcher in the UTS Centre for…
I can’t believe it… I’ve been nominated for a Ditmar Award for Best New Talent! Thank you so much to everyone who nominated me for this wonderful honour – I’m seriously indebted to you 🙂 For anyone who doesn’t know, the Ditmar Awards celebrate achievements by Australians in speculative fiction…
This week, I’m over on the Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild blog talking about writer envy… I don’t get writer envy. At least, I don’t get it anymore. I used to compare myself to other writers and wish I had their lives. It bugged me that their writery lives were so glamorous…
Is it good to be chirpy all the time? I’ve been asking myself this lately because I am, mostly, chirpy. Over the years, I’ve become fairly comfortable in my own skin. And on the odd day when I’m not comfortable in that skin, I go jog it off. Simple. But……
