Jennifer Fallon's Blog, page 26

At the risk of sounding like a heartless bitch...

Dace had his school fair today, which meant we had to go along to watch him play in a flute ensemble and in the string group, since he started learning violin this year.

The little kids were cute. The flutes were fun despite sounding like a 4wd ru...

Worldbuilding Master Classes

Supanova in Sydney and Perth is almost on us again, so if you're interested in attending the World Building Master Classes at all, it's time to book your tickets now!

Full details about the workshops can be found at www.worldbuildingworkshops...

Thursday's Movie Review - Terminator Salvation

If you don’t know anything about the Terminator franchise, then you’ve been living under a rock since 1985 (assuming you’ve been alive that long). Terminator Salvation takes us to the future, sans time-travel plot devices, to show u...

New Pandemic Alert

My sister just sent me this. Please take note. This sounds pretty dire.
"I went to a dinner party last night, where I, and other guests, enjoyed copious amounts of alcohol. I awoke this morning not feeling well, with what could be described as ...

The Chaos Crystal - the ending I didn't write (in cartoon form)

Ok... here's a bit of fun, via the lovely Gillian Pollack in Canberra, who has a student by the name of Julian, studying... actually, I have no idea. (Probably Advanced Medieval Banquet Cuisine 101, if Prof Who Gives Out Yummy Chocolates is at t...

Stuff I did today...

Finished up and sent in my novella for the Legends of Australian Fantasy anthology. Story is called The Magic Word. It's out sometime later this year, I think.
Rearranged all my kitchen cupboards including installing a pantry unit and a ca...

If I was Christian Bale...

...before I made another movie, I'd ask the following questions:

will there be any Australians in the cast?
are they going to get all the good bits, like characterisation, dialogue and/or evil deed/heroics?
am I going to be upstaged,...

Oooh... shiny...

I opened up the box of books from the US today and discovered something I didn't know about from looking at picture of the cover...
It's shiny. Silver foil border around the title and my name is in silver foil, too.
I feel very special. Loving the ...

US Paperback edition of The Immortal Prince is on sale now!

Can't believe I didn't notice this happened a couple of days ago.
Actually, yes I can...
Did I mention that after swearing I would never renovate again, I currently have bulldozers ripping up my cliff front yard so we can put in a retaining w...

Thursday's Movie Review - State of Play

We're baaaack...
Remakes are all the go at the moment Hollywood, and State of Play is yet another remake, this time of a BBC miniseries set in the House of Commons. Transposed to the US, the setting is now Congress, where Rep Stephen Collins (Ben Af...