My Mum, Dad and brother visited me this festive season, all the way from England. I was overjoyed to see them and feel their realness again. Conversations on Skype can only relate so much. At times, old family grievances returned. Still, as usual, I cried at the airport as they…
What a year. Fast. Quick. Over. It’s gone so fast in fact, that I’ve barely had time to thank all the people who have made my writing this year so darn fabulous! So I’m going to do that now.
So, the incredibly talented Ditmar award-winning Joanne Anderton just tagged me in this Next Big Thing thingy (thanks too Amanda Bridgeman and Amin Chehelnabi for also asking me), meaning I now have to answer ten questions about my current masterpiece in the making… Thanks Jo!! 1) What is the working…
2000 – the Y2K bug was supposed to bring an end to our world 1997/1999 – Nostradamus predicted Armageddon 2012 – now it’s the Mayans turn to predict our doomsday… According to an ancient Mayan inscription carved on a stone staircase in the ruins of Guatemala’s La Corona, 21 December…
You know when you’ve been to the gym, or you’ve gone for that extra long walk, and your muscles are throbbing? You’re exhausted, yet feel good for it? Well, that’s how my writery mind feels today. This is what my weekend entailed… Friday night – GenreCon cocktail party Main activity:…
This weekend in Sydney, free love reigned… of the speculative fiction variety. Having been invited to join a host of local authors to promote and celebrate speculative fiction in 2012 – there was only one thing a girl like me could say… Yes, yes, yes! Towering high above Sydney in…
What a great week I’m having! Now, to top it all off, I’ve become a Page 3 Girl! (do you see what I did there? He he…) My thanks go to my local newspaper, The Manly Daily, for their awesome write-up and great photo of me published this morning on…
