Thanks to everyone who came to the launch of When Dark Roots Hunt on Saturday! We had so much fun together! My editor and publisher (Anna Solding from MidnightSun Publishing) and I shared funny anecdotes from the editing process, I introduced the book and did a reading, we had an…
Wow, what a fun series that was – we have seen a lot of handwriting over the past few weeks! What about your handwriting? Have you analysed it yet? Do you have a broad perspective on life, do emotions rule your thinking, are you optimistic or visionary, how much do…
What kind of books does Ian Irvine write? Mostly epic fantasy, but also children’s fiction, and some SF (eco-thrillers). Tell me more! Ian Irvine, an Australian marine scientist, has also written 32 novels and an anthology of shorter stories. His novels include the Three Worlds fantasy sequence (The View from…
Graphologists claim your handwriting can reveal clues to your personality and that no two people have the same handwriting. Being an unconscious habit, we tend to weave our identities into the way we write, so by analysing size, slant and pressure graphologists can determine things like imagination, self-confidence, repression and…
Listening to a sequence of sounds has no obvious survival value for humans. Yet according to a 2001 study by neuroscientists at the University of Montreal, music has the same effect on our brains as sex and good food. Why? It could be because with music we get whatever emotion…
Who is Ian Irvine? Ian Irvine, a marine scientist who has developed some of Australia’s national guidelines for protection of the marine environment, has also written 31 novels. These include the bestselling Three Worlds fantasy sequence (The View from the Mirror, The Well of Echoes and Song of the Tears),…
No matter what your vocation in life, music can inspire you. It can lift and comfort. It can embrace and acknowledge. It can nullify your existential loneliness in a way unique to any other art form. It can unite us and connect us, make us think differently about situations and…
