Archive for August, 2009

As a member of the Australian Horror Writers’ Association, I got sent the first issue of Brimstone Press’s Eye Of Fire ezine automatically today. Brimstone Press is a great Aussie publisher that concentrates on the darker side of things, so they obviously get my vote. They started producing Black magazine, but distribution costs forced...
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When RealmShift was first released I was against the idea of ebooks. I wanted to write and sell real books, dead tree books, solid books with pages that get dog-eared from being read over and over again. I love books. I’m a bibliophile of the highest order. As far as I’m concerned, there’s magic...
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So, following yesterday’s post, here’s my first flash fiction piece for the #fridayflash community of writers and readers. Please feel free to share the link for this post around. As mentioned yesterday, this little yarn was my entry in the last ever Flash Fiction Contest over at Scribe’s runboard, which is closing down soon....
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Back at the end of May I blogged about a new idea doing the rounds called Fiction Friday. The idea was to have people write a short piece of flash fiction (less than 1,000 words) and post it on their blog. They would subsequently Tweet the link on Twitter, with the hashtag #fictionfriday, and...
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The lovely Joanna Penn over at The Creative Penn website tagged me with this meme. You can find Jo’s answers here. You can find the original meme (with rules, no less!) here. So, on to the questions then. Which words do you use too much in your writing? An editor once told me, ‘Try...
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For those of you interested, Pat Bertram asked me if I would write up an article about my recent blog book tour for her Book Marketing Floozy website. So if you’re thinking about doing something similar to promote your own writing, this article pretty much gives you all you need to know to get...
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I recently entered the Katherine Susannah Prichard Speculative Fiction Awards 2009, an Australian short story competition. Sadly my story didn’t win a prize or a recommendation, but that’s okay. I have another story to put back into the market now and see if someone will buy it. (You have to look for the positive...
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I’ve been meaning to get around to this for a while and I’ve finally got it done. Another thing I can tick off the ever-growing To Do list. I’ve had a links page here for a while now with interesting online places for you all to visit. I’ve now expanded that and added a...
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We already knew, from the infallible source of George Romero, that ultraviolence is the only defence against zombies. Well, now it’s been mathematically proven. My good friend (and invaluable IT support guru) James pointed me in the direction of this article in The Register. Professor Robert Smith? of Ottawa University, an infectious-diseases specialist, has...
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My wife spotted this in the paper the other day. It was a full page ad showing fifteen different bras on sale at Myer. The one that really caught her eye was this one: You’d think that a marketing department would avoid suggesting that a piece of clothing minimised comfort. Ladies, we present the...
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