I’m so chuffed right now… I just got a personal message from Lillian Csernica, a reviewer for Tangent Online. Every year, Tangent Online puts together a ‘Recommended Reading List’ of all the best speculative fiction stories published in the preceding year, worldwide. The List was finalised on 30 December 2013,…
For those of you late to the party (don’t worry, there aren’t too many adults here yet), Adventure Time is an American animated television series created by Pendleton Ward (here in Australia it airs on Cartoon Network Australia (censored) and Go (uncensored)). I love Adventure Time and sit down to…
Do you get inspiration from travelling to new places? I do! I love new experiences and seeking out unusual sights and stories. Now that I’m a mum, I don’t get out as much as I used to, so have to draw on my memories and notes about places for inspiration…
‘Tis the season to be jolly! My kids are on holidays. I won’t be starting my next major writing project (novel number three!) until they’re back at school in February. I still have some editing work to do and some collaborative writing projects to maintain, but otherwise that’s it for…
In January this year, I asked a bunch of writers what their writing goals were for 2013. Was their focus going to be novels, short stories, non-fiction… what? I was interested to see what everyone was planning to achieve, so conducted a poll on my Facebook page. Here are the results…
Yay – I won the Glen Miles Short Story prize! What could be better?? Being able to read my winning story for free, of course! Here’s the opening paragraph of “Champions”, the story that just won me my seventh national writing competition (squee!)… “Can you believe it? Twenty-four years ago…
Last weekend, I took my two kids to a book fair. In the interests of book-loving parents everywhere, I thought I’d share with you what made this particular book fair so very wonderful! 1. Stock plenty of kids’ books! Kids love looking at and buying books! If you’ve got a…
