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……
This week, I’m over at the Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild blog talking about the wrong paths writers can sometimes take in life… Picture this: I was twenty-four, it was my first day working for a top London law firm, and I already knew I’d made the biggest mistake of my…
Last week, I asked how far you usually go to solve unpleasant experiences in your life. At what point do you let things go? Well, after I wrote that post, I wondered how other authors handle unpleasant online experiences and what, if any, advice they had for other writers. The…
Okay, so let’s get one thing straight – I don’t consider myself famous! My kids sometimes think I am because I’ve been in the newspaper and on the radio a bit over the last few years, trying to make myself difficult for publishers to ignore (come on, publishers – I’m…
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…
