Excuses for not blogging

The last couple of weeks have been a blur of editorial revisions for Little Sister, trying to finish the Day Job project I've been working on all year and getting stuck into a new (Day Job-type) project that needs to be whipped into some sort of presentable shape before we head to Sydney next week.

Inbetween whingeing about my workload, the crowds of Christmas shoppers and my deep desire to escape to an island that is deserted except for a small cocktail bar and stay there until 2 January, I've been enjoying other people's rather more productive blogging:
Kate Gordon's 7 questions not to ask a YA writer made me nod and shake my head and cluck in agreement (I get asked 5 and 7 on a frequent basis, as kate says, only by adults and only by those who never read YA)Adele Persnickety Snark announced that she's coming to melbourne (yay!) to join the State Library of Victoria's Centre for Youth Literature (double yay!)in related CYL news, the 2011 Reading Matters program has been announced and it looks like a doozyI was pleased to see some of my favourites on Popbitch's list of Top 10 movie geeksand of course I enjoyed My Girl Friday's contribution to Inkcrush's 2010 Best of series!