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What a crazy few weeks it's been!
I'm very bad at blog post titles, and this one is dull but functional. Because it has indeed been a crazy few weeks. As many of you will know, I had an insanely busy (but wonderful!) Sydney Writers'...
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In which I am a tiny entry in a Reading Matters Twitter Wordle
Brought to you by the fab gals (and guy?) at Alien Onion.
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Bad reviewing isn't limited to blogs AKA there's no such thing as chick lit.
There's been a lot of talk over the years about the quality of critical thinking and reviewing in yer average book blog—concerns that I've shared at times. It's not so much the fangirl stuff that...
View ArticleRoberta Lowing and the Prime Minister's Literary Awards Shortlists
I caught up with my one-time student Roberta Lowing during Sydney Writers' Festival, where she was on the program to talk about her first novel, Notorious, published by Allen and Unwin late last year....
View ArticleWhither the Children's Book?
I first used this phrase in my blog post about this year's Sydney Writers' Festival in context of the panel I chaired on the young adult/adult cross-over novel that was, rather ironically I thought,...
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Mary Poppins at the State Library
I attended a talk by Valerie Lawson, biographer of PL Travers at the State Library of NSW tonight. Valerie and one of the Library's curators, Emma Gray, who put together a Mary Poppins exhibition at...
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Hoorah for the lovely ABBA bloggers!
No, no, no, not THAT ABBA—my favourite band of the 70s (one day I will share my ABBA scrapbook with you all). No, the lovely UK writers (will you just check out that list!) who collectively blog at...
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Penni Russon's Only Ever Always: My Goodreads review
Only Ever Always by Penni Russon My rating: 5 of 5 stars I loved Penni Russon's mysterious, elliptical novel of place, dreams, grief and identity. I was going to add time to that list, but that's not...
View ArticleWriting retreat in Bali with Phillip Gwynne
Hey, here's an amazing opportunity! Phillip Gwynne, multi-award winning author of books for children, teens and adults, has moved to Bali with his young family. (Don't be Facebook friends with him—the...
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Timecatcher by Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick
My goodreads review: Timecatcher by Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick My rating: 5 of 5 stars Disclaimer—Marie-Louise is a dear friend and one of the loveliest people I know. She's been a picture book artist...
View ArticleIn which two, or possibly three of my passions come together..
Amber Benson, Tara in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, on her new(ish) career as a writer and her love of, among numerous writers, Diana Wynne Jones. (And if anyone has read her middle grade novel Among the...
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Goodbye, and thanks for all the Apples
I'm writing this on a Mac.Pretty much everything of value I've ever written, I wrote on a Mac. Book reviews, articles, blog posts, aborted attempts at novels and short stories and picture books—written...
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To beguile many, and be beguil’d by one.
I've just got home from a school drama performance. I don't go to these very often any more—I have a few nieces and one nephew who were into drama, but they've all finished school now, and anyway, it...
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WestWords on Facebook
Happy new year, everyone! I had a lovely, if too short, break over Christmas and into the middle of January, and am now back on deck at the Day Job. The exciting news from that front is that WestWords...
View ArticleFarewell Serendipity
And so an era comes to an end. Misrule has been operating on the Serendipity platform since its inception in about 2003, including an earlier version that got swamped by spam comments and had to be...
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