Personal writing achievements and news for happy sharing.
As some of you may know, my debut novel Towards White is currently with my literary agent Alex Adsett seeking its best publisher. The waiting is a killer. Every email update from my agent, every time my phone rings… I’m holding my breath and hoping. Of course I’m getting on…
Winds of Change is an anthology of short stories published by the Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild and it’s awesome – and not just because it’s got one of my sci-fi stories in it!! For the first time since its publication in 2011, it’s now available online (in most formats from…
The lovely Jen Persson has interviewed me over on The View From Here literary magazine: http://www.viewfromheremagazine.com/2013/01/interview-with-zena-shapter.html Jen read my website, my blog and my Facebook page before asking me these twenty considered questions, so some of them were very difficult to answer!! Thank you, Jen, you did a great job…
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…
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…
