UPDATE: more valuable feedback has been received, helping further with the story. In some recent reviews I have let rip on the need for and value of having extra eyes reviewing your work. And I have a short example of how beneficial that can be. Very recently I dashed off a short story for a […]
February 21, 2014
Here in Australia, we do not have a brilliant history in our relations with Indigenous Australians and reconciliation is an ongoing process. One thing that was achieved was the Australia Council for the Arts adopting a set of formal protocols for producing Indigenous Australian Writing. The Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild, of which I am a […]
December 17, 2012
This post first published at www.awritergoesonajourney.com While perhaps better known for her series of crime novels, Tara Moss has had a love affair with speculative fiction for a long time which has come out in her Pandora English series. Here, in a blog entry from her website that she kindly agreed to share with us, […]
November 24, 2012
One of my newest online friends is SM (Frankie) Blooding. Her bio makes really interesting reading, including her role in paranormal rescue – no, that doesn’t mean she runs around doing the paranormal equivalent of animal rescue. Looking at the details of her latest book, The Hands of Tarot, it seems quite interesting. Sadly I […]
November 2, 2012
While working on my current novel-in-progress, I found myself struggling with a scene that I had thought I had in control. The words dried up. This was frustrating but in working on the problem, I had an important realisation. Some time back, I read Write Away by Elizabeth George. This sets out her approach to […]
September 21, 2012
Over the last couple of months I have found myself on a more-than interesting little journey. So far I have learned all sorts of things that I had not thought of or not given sufficient thought to. And so here go – the first of a string of posts that shall be documenting what it […]
December 30, 2016
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