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Anne Lawson and a new take on giving

I never know what new, and wonderful thing I’m going to discover when I go blog hopping of a morning. Sometimes it’s a song, an insightful political comment, happy news, funny news, horrendous news… Well, today I’d like to thank Anne Lawson for introducing me to ‘suspended coffees’. It’s nothing like what you may be [...]

Before and After

This post is going to be all about self-image. Yours. Mine. Women’s perceptions of themselves. I’m not being sexist here, it’s just that I have no information on how self-image affects men. So, sorry guys, I’d still love to hear your views. Okay, I’d like to start this discussion happening with an amazing video clip [...]

Earning Your Place – reblogged from CaressingTheMuse

This post by Stephanie Allen Crist really hit the spot for me today. I’ll comment at the end. Earning Your Place Posted on April 20, 2013 by Stephanie Allen Crist “In most people’s minds, marketing is about promoting a product or service. It’s about advertising. It’s about sales. But the full cycle of marketing involves [...]

iVokh and the Poacher’s Knot

My father always secretly longed for a son, but he ended up with just one daughter [me]. However, being a very practical man, my Dad made the most of things by teaching me many of the ‘boy’ skills – such as gardening and carpentry – he would have taught to a son. That quirk of [...]

Hugh Howey on Wool

One of the nice things about getting to the Supanova Expo rather late on the last day was that I missed the crowds around the Dymocks stand. That stroke of luck allowed me to spend quite a long time chatting with Hugh Howey about his work, in particular Wool. Wool started out as a one-off, [...]

Boston Marathon Tragedy

I have nothing new to add to the news reports already filling the net. I would just like to express my horror that once again, innocent people have been targeted in some stupid campaign or other. Whatever the purpose of these attacks, the people carrying them out have no honour. My thoughts are with the [...]

Tad Williams on Otherland online

Tad Williams has been one of my all time favourite authors since I fell in love with his Otherland series. Since then my Daughter has become a fan, as has her boyfriend, so I guess you could say it’s a family affair. Something else we share in our family is a love of gaming and [...]

Tad Williams AND Hugh Howey!

Today I attended the Supanova Expo here in Melbourne, and met two of my writing idols in the flesh! And because the gods were kind, I even managed to spend about ten minutes talking books with them.  I’ll write more on the interesting things I learned in tomorrow’s post as I’m too tired, and waaaaaay [...]

Nunc Incipitur

Nunc Incipitur is Latin for ‘now it begins’. It is also happens to be the prologue to book 2 of the Vokhtah cycle. I have been struggling with book 2 because I spent too long away from the story, and because I already knew what book 2 would be about. There were no surprises, or [...]

Vote Wikileaks in September

This title may sound a bit tongue-in-cheek, but I assure you I am quite serious, and so apparently is Julian Assange. According to the ABC news this evening, Wikileaks the political party will be on the ballot papers when Australia votes in September. To be honest, I have no idea what kind of policies a [...]