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January 21, 2010
Ghostbook snippeteen.
click the photo to read the Ghostbook snippet at insideadog.
As you know, I'm currently polishing the Ghostbook before handing it over to my OBP editors. Today I've posted a wee snippet of it over at insideadog. Hope you like it.
As usual I've chosen to illustrate it with one of graciferblue's mosh photos - they just resonate so well with this story.
January 19, 2010
Thanks to a reader
Big Thanks to Joleene Naylor who e-mailed me her reviews of The Poison Throne and The Crowded Shadows.
Joleen's entry to the Loups-Garous contest
Joleene was one of the winners of the Loups-Garous competition back in old 2009. The competition asked readers to illustrate the vision inspired by the words Loups-Garous and the prize was a copy of the first two Moorehawke books.
You might remember this wonderful drawing which Joleene did for her submission?
Joleene enter the competition via an art...
January 17, 2010
Zombies and Addicts and Libraries, oh my
Latest post up on insideadog.
Talking about reviews how I don't do 'em - then contradicting myself by scoping out the latest issue of Kirkman/Adlard's Walking Dead and Anthony Keidis's Scar Tissue
January 15, 2010
Polishing the Ghost
Latest insideadog post up. Talking about self-editing,polishing, editorial process and generally poncing on about what I was up to today.
January 13, 2010
Genre at insideadog
New article up on insideadog. Talking about genre and how useful it is to know who you are as a writer, but how it's best not to let it confine you during the creative process.
Branching out... or not.
January 12, 2010
Thank You Met Éireann
Many many thanks to Noreen Brennan in the queries dept at Met Éireann.
I wanted to check if the weather in my current project would have been historically correct. Despite the fact that Met Éireann's records only go back to 1940, Noreen took the trouble of going to the library and looking up some journels from 1890! This was dedication above and beyond the call and, I think, deserves a public thanks!
Crowded Shadows #3 in A&U top ten teens!
So happy to see that Crowded Shadows is one of Allen and Unwin's top ten teen sellers for January! And The Poison Throne is still hanging on in there at the number ten slot! WOOTS!
1.My Love Lies Bleeding by ALYXANDRA HARVEY
AUS/NZ cover for The Crowded Shadows.
2.Somebody's Crying by MAUREEN MCCARTHY3.The Crowded Shadows by CELINE KIERNAN4.Dear Swoosie (Girlfriend Fiction 17)by KATE CONSTABLE AND PENNI RUSSON5.Furnace: Death Sentence by ALEXANDER GORDON SMITH6.LiarJUSTINE LARBALESTIER7.
January 10, 2010
Why write fiction?
A little cartoon I did for my latest insideadog article. If you would like to read the article just click the cartoon :0)
(ETA: some very very polite folks have asked can they print this off for thier office wall. Of course you can! There's a better quality one HERE though.)
January 6, 2010
Insideadog
I'll be writer in residence at insideadog for the next month, folks. If you would like to keep following my incomprehensible babblings you can find me there :0)
December 28, 2009
The Poison Throne: UK/US confusions :0)
Very excited to discover that Orbit have released the ARCs for The Poison Throne ( what a beautiful promotional package they put together too! I am so happy! THANK YOU ORBIT!!!) There seems to have been a little confusion over the origins of the books however, and a few rather out-there opinions and theories being expressed via the interwebs. Given the slightly tangled online history of the book's publication the confusion is perfectly understandable, so, rather than address each query...
