A pretty shitty time
You may have heard of the recent BFF cat food ‘issues’. Our dear Alan died last Tuesday, we had to …
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Back from the west, and now up north
Hello, just a quick place-holder to report I am back and I am amid boxes and settling into the new …
Gone fishing
Am around but not around. Heading to Perth early Feb for 2-week writing retreat (“heaven, sheer heaven”) and the festivus, …
First real proper lit festival appearance locked in
I’m a bit excited because I have a booking for next year, for a literary festival. I don’t want to …
Reading catch up
I am regretting two things about my reading year. The first was even trying to do a themed approach. The …
Things I am doing
Waiting for an email from my publisher. I might have some good news soon about my next book but do …
Guest spot at ANZLitlovers
The marvellous Lisa Hill at ANZ LitLovers recently had me on her blog as part of her Meet an Aussie …
There’s something weird going on with my wordpress
I can’t seem to post comments/replies the way I used to People’s avatars are coming up without their names I …
Melbourne Writers Festivus 2016
Unlike years past, I only bought two tickets to the festival this year, and both of those last minute. I …
Open browse
Here are my next bunch of browser windows. Because it’s an easy post to do, and because I know you will …
Sundry items
I haven’t been following the Sydney WF – not really – but this blog post by Jane Gleeson-White caught my …
The ups and downs of life
It’s been a tricky, sad and exciting time in literary Australia over the last couple of weeks. Last week, I …
Author guest spot at Word Farm
I was invited to contribute something to a Facebook group called Word Farm. The brief was to send some photos …
Food from my phone
I was going through the photos on my phone and thought I’d better clear them out, delete all the crappy …
Amazon. How does it work?
That’s probably more of a rhetorical question, because I could find out myself. BUT, I was alerted last night by …
Three pages to go
Why, you ask, haven’t you finished it already? I was tearing through it, very late last night, so determined. Was falling …
Still going with Salman
It’s really really tough. What am I doing to myself? I think after I’ve finished (100 pages to go) I will …
Stuck fishing in Bali
Hope to be back early next week.
Gone fishing
Reading catch-up: Orhan Pamuk’s A Strangeness in My Mind
Book 44 for the year is A Strangeness in My Mind. I love Orhan Pamuk’s novels but I haven’t read them …
Wednesday catch-up
Well, I can barely catch my own breath at the moment. It’s all things proofing at my house, and looking …
Reading, reading and more reading. And some editing.
My edits are done. Again. So next stage will be proof pages and seeing some cover artwork. Fingers crossed for …
All things goshawk
So a little while ago I was all things Karl Ove Knausgaard. That hasn’t changed, in fact I finished his …
Saturday catch up
It’s been a while since I posted. I have just finished a full-on week of teaching, as well as getting my …
To be published later this year: my novel The Secret Son*
Someone gave me a push to write a new post here, with my news in a more highlighted fashion. I …
Getting ready to fly the old coop
Friday week I jet off (read: become paralysed stuffed in small almost-reclining seat within long metal tube) to London and …
Shacks (and one non-shack), Werribee South
This post is for Sarah, who posted some shacky stuff here and here.
Going Global, ASA Seminar held Wed 14 May, Melbourne
Anne Beilby, Rights Manager at Text Publishing. I went along to this not quite sure what it was about (my …
PWF Day 1, Publishers Seminar, Session 5. THE PITCH.
What we’ve all been waiting for, and on the day, the Pitch session was mentioned throughout, with info about how …
My 2013 reading wrap up
So everyone else is doing it, here’s mine. These aren’t all the books I read this year, but these are …
Gone fishing
Back at the end of the week my pretties.
First anniversary of this blog, and an interview with Iowa Writers’ Workshop teacher Marilynne Robinson
Well, apparently it’s the first birthday of this blog. How nice. Some stats: Today, 16 views so far from 16 …
Colm Tóibín workshop – Melbourne Writers Festival 2013
UPDATE: It was announced yesterday that Tóibín’s The Testament of Mary has been shortlisted for this year’s Man Booker Prize. …
Workshop with MJ Hyland at the Melbourne Writers Festival
MJ Hyland has written three novels and I enjoyed all of them, particularly the second (Carry Me Down) and third …
Catching up on… The Writer’s Room Interviews
I’ve mentioned this fabulous suite of interviews before but really, they are such a great source of information and insight …
Gone Fishing
Back next week.
First interview with Amanda Lohrey from The Writer’s Room
Writer Amanda Lohrey If you haven’t already subscribed to this new publication, and you are a keen student of learning …
January over, what does Feb have in store?
Disclaimer: this is a meandering post and it’s really quite self-absorbed. You have been warned. Last night on twitter I …
