.This clause is in my new book contract:“The Works shall not contain any recipe, formula, suggestion or advice which if followed has the potential to cause harm…”Oh dear. I immediately cut out the “charm of powerful trouble recipe”, you know, … Continue reading
. The Random Rain trilogy is going to be published by HarperCollins Voyager Australia. Book One will be out in September 2009, a year from now, if all is well, with the other two books to follow in 2010, just … Continue reading
~Take a look at the plant below – looks like it has some sort of pine cone type thingies on it. But nope, they are the protective cases of some kind of caterpillar. At a wild and uneducated guess, a … Continue reading
.[This is actually an idea by author Josh Palmatier. What happens is this: a number of authors are putting up an example of a successful query letter, i.e. one that either got them an agent or an editor. In other … Continue reading
If you haven’t been to Charlottesville, Virginia, you are missing a treat. It is one lovely university town. Last weekend we went up into the hills to pick apples, and the view from there shows just how the large town … Continue reading
‘ …when I am working. Skunky, the cat who remembers me from year to year. … Continue reading
A while back, I mentioned a discussion about coping with words that were “foreign” to me because, as an Australian farm kid growing up in the forties and fifties, with no access to TV (let alone the internet!) and rarely … Continue reading
Russell Kirkpatrick had an interesting post over on his blog last week, about a list of words he obtained from a book he was reading, a list that a reader of that book had trouble understanding. Russell asked how many … Continue reading
Grandson started going back to pre-school yesterday. I was too sick to do anything, but today I start working again in all seriousness. On July 13th, my word count was 100,000, or 55% of the supposed total of Book 2 … Continue reading
Godda cold. Miserubble.So I leave you with a thought. “If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either writethings worth reading or do things worth writing.” Benjamin Franklin … Continue reading
