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Here’s an updated link to the Conflux minicon site with all the guests and the times of their appearance (times given on the site are for Eastern Australia, which is GMT + 10). Have your questions ready…. And there are … Continue reading
Glenda Larke
Just so you know what time to come talk to me: Midnight in Sydney is…10 p.m. in Kuala Lumpur3 p.m. in London10 a.m. in New York7 a.m. in Los Angeles4 p.m. in Berlin and Capetown11 p.m. in TokyoSATURDAY 4th AUGUST … Continue reading
The organisers of a science fiction and fantasy convention called Conflux, a yearly event held in Canberra – which I would give a lot to go to on a regular basis because it is one of the best cons around … Continue reading
Subtitle: Why Australian Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews would never make a novelist What am I doing at the moment? 1] Waiting for some feedback from UK or S.Africa. An email from a reader. An Amazon review. Any review. Something. I … Continue reading
Heart of the Mirage will be available at a bookstore near you in a few short days, if not right now. It is already available on amazon.co.uk here For those of you in Capetown, there’s a bookstore called READER’S PARADISE … Continue reading
The civets fight and squeal in my ceiling. [I’m told they make very good coffee, as my Orbit editor, Darren Nash, took care to point out to me. He has since decided never to accept a cup of coffee from … Continue reading
Today I was in the MPH bookshop in Midvalley. I wanted to buy the book “The Gift of Rain” by Malaysian Author Tan Twan Eng, a novel set in war-torn Penang. It is published in UK, and has been reviewed, … Continue reading
I wrote the last post late last night, and first thing this morning a whole lot of emails dropped into my box telling me I had been reviewed by aurealisXpress (the monthly ebulletin for subscribers of Aurealis magazine). Thanks, guys. … Continue reading
I continue to be over the moon about the reaction to Song of the Shiver Barrens. All my agonising and re-writing evidently paid off, and in the end I must have managed to produce a good book. I think my … Continue reading
There were two related articles in this morning’s paper that made me wonder about values. It seems that, to some of us, all that matters is only skin deep. In fact, these people would condemn others – perhaps even condemn … Continue reading