Archive for March, 2009

I had a very pleasant surprise this morning. Jonathan Crossfield contacted me on Twitter to let me know about a post on his blog listing the top 50 Australian blogs on writing. I thought that sounded like a pretty useful resource. Imagine my surprise to discover that this little corner of the interwebs that...
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Antipodean SF is an online speculative fiction magazine that specialises in flash fiction. Short, sharp, clever pieces of fiction that never exceed 500 words. From the website: AntipodeanSF ‘online’ exists to let the world know that there is such a beast as an Australian (i.e. antipodean) science/speculative-fiction writer… In a nutshell, AntipodeanSF wants to...
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Sorry things have been a bit quiet around here lately. I won’t bore you with the details, but things have been bloody hectic for the wife and I lately, and they’re only going to get more pandemonic (it’s a word now, if I say so). We decided to run away for a week and...
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Check out the latest review for RealmShift posted at Horrorscope – The Australian Dark Fiction Web Blog. Overall a pretty good review – very thorough, well thought out and largely positive. That’s pretty much the best we can hope for in a review. .
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Some of you may be aware of my broad and ecclectic taste in music, others may not. However, one of the things that I’ve always had a passion for is powerful, ball tearing, throat ripping heavy metal. I’m also a massive fan of all sorts of other genres and I think that Pink Floyd...
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David Wood is a good friend of mine and a top notch author. He’s been kind enough to read and blurb on my books before and he’s an invaluable source of ideas and help in the field of indie publishing and all that related stuff. He also posted a guest blog here at The...
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You might notice a few small changes here at The Word. I’ve made a new page dedicated for links (see the new button in the Navigation panel on the left) and removed all the links boxes from the lefthand sidebar, just to tidy things up a bit. I’ve also tidied up a few other...
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I was wandering around one of the local towns recently, window shopping with my wife, when we saw this sign posted in the window of a shop. It was one of those shops that sold all kinds of weird and tacky stuff, like signs that say “You don’t have to be mad to work...
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I picked this up over at Writing Forums: Apparently Hemmingway once wrote a six-word ‘story’ and called it his best work. Wired Magazine challenged a phalanx of SF/F and horror authors to try this. Some examples: Automobile warranty expires. So does engine. - Stan Lee Machine. Unexpectedly, I’d invented a time - Alan Moore...
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April Hamilton is an indie author with a number of successful titles to her name. Here she writes about the love/hate relationship indie authors and publishers have with Amazon. Amazon And The Indie Author: Frenemies? I had a discussion about Amazon with a writer friend recently. She was annoyed that the profit split for...
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