Racism and PC in Steampunk and Spec Fic
This blog is to put my two bits in a conversation on the Vision list. We were discussing to what extent (or even if) considerations of stereotypes and concepts of Polictical Correctness apply within...
View ArticleThe Coral Sea Monster
Click to view slideshow. This is the book we wrote yesterday from scratch to completion, The Coral Sea Monster. It’s 16,600 words long. When an OceanWorld truck rolls on the freeway at Pimpama, Jack,...
View ArticleAmica, the Centaur and the Right End
Well, I’m still working on my Centaur story, and it’s gotten better. My main character, Amica, has become proactive about arranging the end she wants. I’m not entirely happy with it yet, but it’s...
View ArticleCaroline, Canberra & Conflux
Am all packed for Conflux! I’ll get into Canberra late tomorrow night and my lovely friend Caroline (who is engaged to be married to Jason) is picking me up so I can stay with her for two nights,...
View ArticleMagic Possibilty Putty
This week I’ve been letting two stories settle. You know, that period of a week or so where you don’t look at it so when you do look at it again it surprises you with its brilliance and/or holes,...
View ArticleChristmas, Midnight Echo 6, Reading and Writing
Be warned this might be the worst (or best) blog ever, because I’m gunna jump from Christmas to Midnight Echo to Work In Progress to Reading to Talking about Your Writing and then to The End. CHRISTMAS...
View ArticleWhere is Rainbow? A Diamond Loveheart Star story
Hello, Here is the first book created by H.K & J.Z Sparkle. I’m the first nom de plume, there. J.Z is the five-year-old illustrator and creative influence. She invented Diamond Loveheart Star, I...
View ArticleSpecial Guest Patty Jansen on Sci-fi and her sale to Analog Magazine
G’day, g’day, I hope 2012 is treating you well. It’s been a great start to the year for me, with my story ‘Sayuri’s Revenge,’ accepted for publication in Tales from the Bell Club, to be published later...
View ArticleNatcon 2012 Rocked Socks
I’m not good at post-con blogs, but I must blog about Natcon 2012 because otherwise I’d fail to acknowledge the fantastic people that are Australian Speculative Fiction. Yes, you know who you are....
View ArticleGold Coast Writers Fest: Daniells, Bell and Smith talk Spec Fic
Today GC Speckies were delighted to attend The Gold Coast Writers Festival session about Science Fiction and Fantasy. Authors Rowena Cory Daniells, A.A. Bell and Jill Smith talked about their writing...
View ArticleGold Coast Supanova 2013
Dear Reader, Supanova 2013 was my first time at a convention as an exhibitor. I attended as part of my group, Gold Coast Speckies. It was a fair amount of work to get organised, but we shared that...
View ArticleFun is a Con
I’m on the second plane, heading home to the Gold Coast, after the great surprise of bumping into Sue Bursztynski at the airport and sitting together on the flight to Melbourne. As usual, Natcon was...
View ArticlePiccinini and her Skywhale
My mum was an art teacher, so art has always been a huge part of my life. But no artwork has ever struck me like Patricia Piccinini’s work, and I don’t mean Skywhale. I haven’t been to Canberra to see...
View ArticleAnnihilating Sexism One Conversation At A Time
Ah, sexism, you rear your ugly head. It ruins my day. It really does. I’ve got enough disability discrimination ruining my days, already. I’d love to close my eyes and cover my ears and go la-la-la and...
View ArticleExploring Editing
Good Afternoon, dear friends. Fancy this, writing a blog on a Saturday afternoon. It’s 3.21pm and getting dark outside. I hope it’s not the apocalypse because I’m very excited about embarking on this...
View ArticleGoodbye, Peleguin
Peleguin A cat is someone you find at Toowong pet shop, with bright blue eyes and messy fur and an arched-backed, high-tailed, bite-other-kittens-on-the-butt type attitude. You pay $25 for him and take...
View ArticleGalactic Chat, Gold Coast Anthology and Diversity
Hello dear reader, I’m super excited (yes, even more excited than usual) to have joined the Galactic Chat team and to have made it real by interviewing my first guest, Talitha Kalago. Talitha is a...
View ArticleBrisbane Writers Festival — Story Plus Workshop
Dear Reader, Exciting times to be a Queensland genre writer are upon us! Genrecon is next weekend, in Brisbane. I can’t wait. I’m trying to find time to get my Cultasses and Kimonos costume ready....
View ArticleGenrecon 2013
Oooh, my Con Report is way overdue! What a slack-ass. No, no, that’s not quite true. I’ve been working on stories and blogs, and editing the Gold Coast Anthology. So, I drove up to Brisbane on Friday...
View ArticleTwitter’s Suffocating 2K Limit and How to Breathe Again
Howdy. This is a blog about Twitter and the ratio-based limits on how many tweeps you can follow. (Tweeps are people who tweet, but you knew that.) If you end up following 2000 tweeps and a lot less...
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