Discussing Australian authors, their writing and fandom.
For anyone who doesn’t know, the Ditmar Awards celebrate achievements by Australians in speculative fiction writing. Nominations for the awards are currently open and can be made by anyone who has been to a recent speculative fiction convention / event OR is otherwise active in the speculative fiction world as…
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…
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…
It often amazes me how similar we writers are to one another. Whether we’re confident and smiling on the outside or visibly nervous, on the inside most of us are the same – we’re full of self-doubt, sensitive and highly analytical. We have to be these things in order to…
Wow – did you enjoy that blog series, or what??! I love peeking over other writers’ shoulders and seeing where they create. Judging from all your comments on Twitter and Facebook, it seems you enjoyed the series too. Thank you for all your discussion and involvement. Some of you shared…
Who writes here? Pamela Freeman Who’s that? Pamela Freeman is the award-winning author of over 20 books, including the fantasy series for adults the Castings Trilogy (Blood Ties, Deep Water and Full Circle) and books for children including Victor’s Challenge, Lollylegs, Princess Betony and the Unicorn, the Floramonde series and the…
Who writes here? Marianne de Pierres Who’s that? Marianne de Pierres is the award-winning author of the Parrish Plessis and Sentients of Orion science fiction series (book four of which Transformation Space won an Aurealis award). The Parrish Plessis series has been translated into eight languages and adapted into a game.…
