Anthony Eaton's Blog: Musings from an Outer-Spiral-Arm

Just Don't. That's all for now. Details later, when I'm less in the mood to strangle someone.

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1. I was really, and I mean really looking forward to flying on the new Airbus A380 - we booked our flight especially after checking to make sure it would be the A380. And then we got to the gate in Sydney, and it wasn't. It was a fairly clapped out old 747.
But, even more disappointing:
2. Standing in the immigration queue at LAX, surrounded by homeland security officers with guns and grim expressions, I look up and see Kyle Sandilands standing at the head of the queue. Just my luck that the o...

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So tomorrow morning at 0900, Imogen, Toby and I get on a plane to L.A. (well, technically we get on a plane to Sydney, which will then connect with the plane to L.A, but you get the general idea...) We're off to visit my sister and her husband and two little girls (one of whom we've never met, and the other of whom is my goddaughter) in Houstin, Texas. This should be awesome.

We're flying on the new Qantas A380, which probably doesn't mean much to a lot of people, but which - to an aviation geek

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The Girl In The Cave has just been released in Chinese! I discovered this when two copies of the Chinese edition arrived in the mail today. This actually proved to be the perfect end to a very surreal day, which included (among other things) me keeping a sick parrot in a box in my office for several hours. But that's beside the point.
The funny thing is, TGITC is the only book of mine not to have done all that well here in Australia (It's still on its first print run, six years after it was origi

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There's a scene in Douglas Adam's The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul where his character, Dirk Gently, is too scared to open his fridge, as it's been six months since he last did so, and he's afraid of what might have grown inside. In the end, he just dumps the fridge and buys a new one.
Unfortunately for me, you can't just dump a backyard, and so today, metaphorically speaking, I opened the fridge...
And, trust me - not fun!
I'll explain.
Since Toby came along, it's funny, but a few of the things I

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I'm sitting in the greenroom at the MWF. Outside the rain is falling so heavily that it's difficult to make out the other side of Flinders Street. The State Emergency Service was on the news just before I walked down here, pleading for commuters to leave work early and get out before the front came through. They're forecasting 120kph+ winds to hit the city at around about 6.00pm. Plus hail. Plus possible snow down to 500 meters
There's a mass exodus happening out there at the moment.
I have a pane

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Toby is nine months old today. 
Scary.
Effectively, he's now been outside for as long as he was inside. So to speak. And the truly frightening part is that, for me at least, the nine months inside seemed to take forever, whereas the nine months since have just vanished.
So, here then are the Ten Things I've Learned in the Last Nine Months:
1. Sleep. Treasure it. It's a valuable commodity.2. Likewise time: I can't believe how much of it I used to waste. On selfish stuff. Like, you know, reading...3.

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Hi everyone...
So, I'm sitting in a cafe in Federation square, making good use of the free wireless, on my second coffee of the morning, and trying desperately to convince myself that I'm actually *not* nervous about my first Melbourne Writer's Festival schools session in a couple of hours. No, I'm really not. I mean, I'm just talking about writing. How hard can that be?
The fact that my session is sold out is also not doing much to calm my nerves...
I had a lovely time yesterday, doing a seminar s

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*Apologies for the lack of graphics and hyperlinks in this one: I'm working on a strange computer with reticent internet, while in a horribly sleep-deprived state....*
So...
It's been a good day today. Now I can finally talk about it, too.
Why so good?
Well, today was the announcement of the CBCA Book of the Year Award, and I'm thrilled that Into White Silence picked up an honour book award in the Older Reader's category. The winner was my mate Shaun Tan, for his very funny and thought-provoking Tal

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So this morning, the Centre for Youth Literature, who run the awesome Inside-a-dog website, announced the longlist for their annual 'Inky' awards and guess what?

I'm on it! (Well, technically Into White Silence is on it, but still...)

Yay!

This is a real buzz. Mainly because there are soooo many other awesome books on the longlist and it's just cool to see my book in such good company. Of the others, I've read Broken Glass, Exposure, The Two Pearls of Wisdom and Where the streets had a Name, and th

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