Tehani Croft Wessely's Blog, page 29
August 7, 2012
Visit to the snow
On Saturday, my husband stepped off the plane after two weeks away and decided to take the kids up to Ben Lomond to see the snow for the first time. As I had a house to clean and a bunk bed to put together (ugh), I was happy to wave them off, despite my misgivings that our car would actually get UP the mountain! They came home very pleased with themselves about their adventure, and a couple of photos (Miss Six actually took a bunch of really nice ones on her DSi, of all things, but I have to...
What is YA?
My photo of Garth Nix giving the “unicorn salute” (Zombies vs Unicorns) at the Aurealis Awards in 2011.
A discussion on Twitter yesterday saw a bunch of cool people weighing on on what defines YA (in the face of a new designation, New Adult, which I think is a bit blech, but anyway…!). Whenever I see this discussion take place, I’m reminded of my favourite definition of YA (Young Adult) fiction, which was penned by Aussie author Garth Nix as a comment on a blog post by editor Jonathan Strahan....
August 6, 2012
Aurealis Awards talk for Launceston Friends of the Library
On Saturday I was the guest speaker for the Launceston Friends of the Library, on the topic of the Aurealis Awards. It was a nice little crowd at the Launceston Linc, and I enjoyed it a lot! I prepared a bit of a talk (below), but the conversation and questions ranged far further afterwards, with a lot of discussion about speculative fiction in general!
Talking about the Aurealis Awards
TheAurealis Awardswere established in 1995 by Chimaera Publications, the publishers ofAurealismagazine, to re...
July 31, 2012
Worlds Next Door giveaway on Goodreads
Goodreads Book Giveaway
Worlds Next Door
by Tehani Wessely
Giveaway ends August 21, 2012.
See the giveaway details
at Goodreads.
FIVE COPIES TO BE WON!
Tagged: competitions, fablecroft, giveaway, worlds next door
July 25, 2012
Pregnancy update
We found out a couple of weeks ago that our private health cover doesn’t include obstetrics. I’m certain it did when we took out the cover, but it doesn’t now. This means that our pregnancy plan had a rather dramatic reshuffle, which was very frustrating. Had my final appointment with the lovely obstetrician yesterday, and bumped in to the general hospital under “shared care” today. The staff at the hospital also seem lovely, which is reassuring (not that I actually doubted it – we’ve had gre...
July 22, 2012
Being a better mummy
Heh, well, I feel like I’m finally getting to closer to the mum I want to be, rather than the mum I HAVE been in the past six months. While I’m still surgically attached to the internet (it feels like), I have managed, in the past three days, to:
take youngest swimming (and meet a new friend)
take 9 year old to soccer, and actually watch (most of) it
spend some one to one time with Miss Six, including brushing of hair (which we used to always do together, but she’s so self-sufficient now that it...
July 19, 2012
More days off!
I’ve done my one day at work this week (two days off as school was closed for mid-year break, plus new regular part-time days added up to that!) and now have three delicious days off again. Decided to start out a bit more energetically than usual, and after we dropped the big kids at school, Master Two and I headed to the aquatic centre. First time the two of us have just hung out doing something all year I reckon! We were practically the only ones there to start with, which was very pleasant...
July 17, 2012
Doctor Who in Conversation – Podcast!
While our New Who in Conversation series is still quietly chugging along, Tansy and David are trying to convince me that I need more Classic Who in my life. To that end, we took a slightly different approach and decided to podcast our thoughts on the Third Doctor debut episodes, “Spearhead in Space”. Tansy made the recommendation for a number of reasons, not least for the fact that it was the first appearance of companion Liz Shaw (played by Caroline John, who died recently).
It was a lot of f...
Okay, where did that six day break go?
Thanks to my new part-time roster, combined with mid-year break/boarders’ weekend, I’ve had a six day break. It’s been very pleasant, but you know how when you’ve got more time than usual, you don’t ever get as much done? Yeah. Instead of just hooking in and doing things, I’ve been very leisurely about it. Case in point, the washing. Still not done after six days off (and a couple of days off before that too, really, thanks to sick daughter). Partly done a few times, but never completely – si...
July 16, 2012
Spider-Man and Snow White – a movie kind of day
We have two extra days off this week, thanks to mid-year break/boarders’ weekend for school. Master Two still has daycare booked though, so it meant the big kids and I could catch a movie or two! We arranged to meet one of Master Nine’s mates for The Amazing Spider-Man around lunch time (we had a baby scan this morning – all looks good!). I’ve seen the Tobey Maguire Spidey movies more time than I can count, thanks to a kid who just loved all things Spidey for a few years, and I though this on...
