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Sometimes the task seems overwhelming. Which is what I am feeling at the moment. I have to do a final edit on the latest book, and while the story is fine, it’s not in the right order. And the trouble … Continue reading
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It has been a long time since I updated my blog…but I am back. OUR SITUATION:A lot has happened, not all of it good, much of it related to the health of my husband and me. And of course, Covid … Continue reading
The difference between Australian, French, German, UK, Russian, US covers of the same book: The marketing people don’t seem to care that they might be misrepresenting the product (which would, one would think, lead to a dissatisfied customer who … Continue reading
Obtaining physical copies of my first trilogy, THE ISLES OF GLORY — The Aware, Gilfeather and The Tainted — may be difficult, but it is easy to buy the ebooks. For example, from Booktopia here in Australia, Amazon and other … Continue reading
NEWS! NEWS! NEWS my first ever selfie…. I have sent off the manuscript of my so-far-unpublished novel to my London publisher. It will be some time before I have an answer, and as I have no current contract with … Continue reading
Yes, I am attending the World Science Fiction Convention which was to be in Wellington New Zealand, but which has gone online for obvious reasons. I have 3 items on the programme: a Reading, a Panel and a Kaffeklatch. If … Continue reading
We here in Western Australia have avoided the worst of Covid-19 thanks to sensible scientific-based decisions of our politicians and public servants. We spent 3 months isolating ourselves. Once restrictions on local travel were eased, we headed north to Kalbarri, … Continue reading
What better way to “get away from it all” — when you can’t move out of the house — than to read and escape into an imaginary world? All my books are available online through any of the usual sources. … Continue reading
THE FUGITIVE QUEEN (title may change!) The initial draft of this novel has been finished at slightly under 150,000 words, so not quite as long as the Stormlord or Forsaken Lands trilogies, but longer than The Isles of Glory books… … Continue reading
I have an interview over at writer Belinda Crawford’s website here. all about writing other cultures. A Remarkable Privilege: Glenda Larke on Writing Other Cultures And here, apropos of nothing much: me trying on shoes in a Javan shoe shop. … Continue reading