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Nature of the beast
I’ve been putting together some thoughts for my next book. There will be strange, hybrid creatures and there will be humans who become partly animal, slightly other. I’ve been thinking about how that will change them, because of course it must. I don’t like to admit to being influenced by physiology. But, if I’m honest,…
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Picturing characters.
This is my drawing of the K’lenws, a character from the novel I’m working on now. And no, it doesn’t quite look like the image I have in my head, but that’s mostly because of my limited drawing skills. There’s a great article over at Jacket Mechanical on picturing books, particularly characters in books. Peter…
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Book Giveaway now closed
Just a quick note to say that the Australia Day Book Giveaway is now closed. I’ll be collating all the entries and running them through random.org very soon. (update: the winner is bn100. Congratulations!) Thank you all so much for all your comments, likes and follows and tweets. I hope each and every one of…
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Australia Day Book Giveaway
January for me means sifting floating ants from the top of my coffee then drinking it in front of a fan. And it means more time than usual to read books (at least, more time that shouldn’t be spent doing something else). Which makes me glad that I am part of the Australia Day Book…
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Catalina
I’ve been tagged by T.B.McKenzie (a fellow Dragonfall Press author) to post something about my current work-in-progress as part of The Next Big Thing. I’ve spent some time recently reading some other Dragonfall writing and have just finished Danny Fahey’s Catalina. It’s a curious mix: a fairy story in which you think you know all…
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Advice to Aspiring Artists
“Saying that we have enough artists is like saying we have enough scientists, we have enough designers, we have enough politicians — we have enough politicians — but, you know, nobody gets to be you except you. Nobody has your point of view except you. Nobody gets to bring to the world the things that…
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The SPF
I’ve put up a short Christmas story free on Smashwords. It’s really a children’s story, but, you know, time corridors, mechanical mice, and a contemporary, somewhat testy incarnation of the Sugar Plum Fairy. Something fun.
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Alice Hoffman
I’ve been drowning in a sea of Alice Hoffman over the past few weeks. Many books, but there are similar strands: love at first sight, ghosts, people who are stuck in tragedy, terminal illness, drug addiction, hope and loss. I like the way in which which she weaves the ethereal into the every day and…
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