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July 31, 2019
New Inklets! #13-15 OUT NOW!
Okay, so I feel like I’ve missed a couple of Inklety announcements, but only one of them was actually for one of mine: Inklet #13, Dragon Tuesday.
On a hot and stuffy afternoon, Chay and Sham want ice cream—and to spot the strange dragon that appears on the streets every Tuesday first this time.
But when a metallic, boxy beast appears blowing smoke and vomiting people, what Chay gets costs her a lot more than she bargained for.
A cautionary tale about getting what you thought you wanted,...
July 30, 2019
Okay, Updates And Where Things Are At
First up, le website. I had to do a reboot last week, and as part of that, the shop plugin crashed. I plan to work on fixing that on the weekend, but for now if you’re in Australia and want to buy a signed book from me, best to use the Contact page.
Next up, blogging! I *think* we are back to your regularly scheduled 5-a-week-on-weekdays. At least, as much as we ever were, right? Not sure I’ll have a *whole* lot to say sometimes, but then, that hasn’t stopped me in the past, so NEVER MIND ABO...
July 29, 2019
Milestones!
Woohoo! Super excited – I actually slept all the way through the night last night. Haven’t done that since I had to start eating gluten again just before Easter. It’s been what, five weeks off gluten now? and I’m finally starting to see some pretty drastic improvements. Here’s to getting my brain back and resuming writing soon!
(Actually, although I wrote nothing last week, I wrote quite a bit the week before that, so that’s happy.)
Happy Tuesday, everyone!
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Made-It Monday: Cake!
Welcome to #MadeItMonday, where I post something I’ve made in the previous week, and where you can join in and post something you made too! The rules are easy: post a pic somewhere of something you’ve made in the last week (ish; let’s say in the last month as the hard-and-fast) and tag it. Sit back and enjoy scrolling through all the beautiful things we’ve collectively created, and celebrate the fact that humans can be awesome!
Shockingly enough, this week we are back to cakes! It’ll be cake...
July 21, 2019
Made-It Monday: Hogwarts Camera
Welcome to #MadeItMonday, where I post something I’ve made in the previous week, and where you can join in and post something you made too! The rules are easy: post a pic somewhere of something you’ve made in the last week (ish; let’s say in the last month as the hard-and-fast) and tag it. Sit back and enjoy scrolling through all the beautiful things we’ve collectively created, and celebrate the fact that humans can be awesome!
Just a quick one today. Mr BoyChild had a Harry Potter day at sc...
July 17, 2019
For The Amazing Author Campers
You guys are incredible. I was so nervous about giving up a week of my precious holidays to go do more teaching, but wow. You’ve all blown me away with your passion and talent and commitment, and you have just been a dream. I’ve had an absolute blast this week, and I really hope you guys have too
Here are some of the extra resources we talked about :
Emotion Thesaurus (free version)
Plotting series for How Not To Acquire A Castle: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4 (the video), Day 5.
July 4, 2019
Almost Alive Again
Hey guys,
A quick health update. June was pretty gross, and the depression, anxiety and sleeplessness/exhaustion were making everything pretty hard. However, the good news is, I had the gastroscopy Tuesday last week, and was able to immediately go gluten-free again after that.
It’s been what, nine, ten days? and things are starting to finally improve now. I mean, I spent three months deliberately poisoning my body to see how hard it would crash (literally, oy), so I have to figure it’s goin...
June 20, 2019
Speechless: Your Friday Musical Interlude, Courtesy of Aladdin
Ermagersh you guys. A friend sent me this the other week and I was just like.
7 seconds in, I was sold, and it only got better from there. This plus Malinda’s Fearless from the other week are my new “play them till the record breaks” song for the rest of the term. Yay!
Aladdin was one of my favourite movies growing up – I can still recite nearly the whole intro sequence – and now I’m kind of keen to go see the live action remake, because MMM THIS MUSIC. THE LOVES.
What awesome and inspirin...
June 13, 2019
These Are A Few Of My Favourite Things (Talented People Doing Talented Stuff)
Far OUT this woman is talented.
What cool/talented things have you found on the web this week?
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Fearless – Great Song, Much Love
Apparently we are on a Malinda kick for a bit 
