Okay, so for those who don’t know me, I’m not the fainting type. I have a sturdy constitution, I never throw up. I’m rarely sick. I have a high pain threshold too – I break bones and don’t know it; I needed no drugs to give birth to either of…
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…
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:…
As regular readers will know, I recently won the short story competition run by the Fellowship of Australian Writers Manly branch… three years in a row! Three years in a row. Three different judges. Three separate wins of ‘first place’. Hat trick! I know! I couldn’t believe it either. Who…
Creating dreams, and pursuing them… Last Saturday at the 2011 NSW Writers’ Centre Speculative Fiction Festival, Pamela Freeman (Blood Ties, Deep Water and Full Circle) said that speculative fiction was: the kind of story that my mother would say weakens your hold on reality For me, this summarised the entire…
