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My mum passed on to whatever is next on the 12th of December. I didn’t make it to her in time as I had to take several stops on the journey because I was so tired and my hands in so much pain. I missed her by less than an hour.

I spent some time with her and she was back in her home town of Gla...

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from Everything Changed When I Forgave Myself by Charlotte Eriksson

Last month I had the absolute pleasure of speaking with The Garret Podcast live at the State Library of Victoria, alongside brilliant writers Clementine Ford (Fight Like a Girl and Boys Will Be Boys) and Alice Pung (Unpolished Gem, Her Father’s Daughter and Laurinda).

Our conversation, recorded l...

Do you remember the excitement of getting the Wish Book in the mail? To me, that event marked the beginning of the Christmas season. My brother and I would pore over the pages, marking the things we wanted. One of my most fervent wishes was to receive a full-on cowgirl outfit, so those pages of [...

Merry merry, one and all …

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Jonathan Kieran is the author of the Rowan Blaize series of epic contemporary fantasy books (Brightbourne 2012), as well as the critically acclaimed (Midwestern Book Review, Manhattan Bo...

When I make these lists, I normally do so to recommend all the books on them. But once in a while I’ll use the lists for a different purpose. The most controversial children’s book of 2018 didn’t come from the areas you might usually expect. One of them was, as it turns out, an easy book.

As for...

It’s 17th December already, so only a week until Christmas Eve (sorry to panic you!). I do hope you’re having a wonderful festive season so far.

It’s time for another Tudor treat from the Anne Boleyn Files Calendar! Today’s treat is from author Sandra Vasoli and it’s a lovely musical one. I won’t...

The best way to ensure that your most important work gets done is to dedicate time to doing it. Whether you work in an office or on your own, it’s critical that you learn to build barriers around your time and dedicate focused efforts to your most important work. The best way I’ve discovered to d...

For startups, 2009 was a good year. More than 20 companies launched at that time, including Uber, Slack, Pinterest, and Blue Apron, eventually achieved $1 billion-plus valuations. Given that those companies were all venture-financed and emerged from Silicon Valley, you might assume that the ke...

Microcosm, an independent publishing house in Portland, announced in July 2018 in Publishers Weekly that it will be taking back control over its distribution for the press. The book and zine publisher, which was previously distributed by PGW/Ingram, decided to keep distribution efforts in-house a...

Ori and the Blind Forest by maga-01

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Jaxson Pierce has a secret. He’s in love with his best friend’s little sister, Noelle. Together he and Dane own the streets and have earned a reputation for being unstoppable. But that means big brother Dane feels responsible for taking care of Noelle, and he is so overly protectiv...

I’m not a fan of Christmas songs, so I thought it would be interesting to make a playlist of music related to, or about history. With one exception, all the songs here are from my personal collection. Consequently, there’s a lot of folk and rock, particularly Billy Bragg and Iron Maiden. I’ve add...

“The United States will continue to target corrupt foreign officials . . . so U.S. companies can compete fairly in transparent business climates.”

– National Security Strategy of the United States of America
– “U.S. Anti-Corruption Efforts,” United States Department of State

Aggressive enforcement...

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Producing or filming a play involves making a whole lot of choices – not just about about “obvious” things such as casting, costumes, set design, lighting, music, and so on. Many of the choices are text-related, such as how to interpret and deliver the dialogue, what bits of stage business or act...

When I was asked to write young adult (YA) novels in 2010, I’ll admit it, I wasn’t a YA reader. I mean, that genre was for teenagers, right? But with a career opportunity on the table, I started doing some research.

First, I asked around to my reader friends to see who were reading young adult. ...

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Magic doesn’t require beauty. Easy magic is pretty. Great magic asks that you trouble the waters. It requires a disruption, something new.

A very long time ago (twenty years maybe?) I read a manuscript by a friend.  Well, I read the first 160 pages before I gave up.  I handed it back to her and said, “I quit reading at page 160 because nothing new was happening, it was the same damn thing over and over.”  And she said, “But that’s w...

I've been down with health issues again this week, alas, and will be back in the office just as soon as I can be. With the good medicine of rest, books, and a canine companion, I trust that will be soon.