NEWS! NEWS! NEWSmy first ever selfie….I have sent off the manuscript of my so-far-unpublished novel to my London publisher.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 them for a new work, I may eventual…
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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 you are also attending, …
Continue readingWe 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 t…
Continue readingWhat 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. For Australians, I especially recomm…
Continue readingTHE 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…I am now waiting…
Continue readingI have an interview over at writer Belinda Crawford’s website here.all about writing other cultures.A Remarkable Privilege: Glenda Larke on Writing Other CulturesAnd here, apropos of nothing much:me trying on shoes in a Javan shoe shop.
Continue readingIn our garden yesterday…A large stick insect. From tip of antenae to tail it was about 15 cms or 6″ in length. And in other news, THE FUGITIVE QUEEN progresses apace as the end approaches.
Continue readingTHE FUGITIVE QUEEN has not yet been completed, but it will be done by Christmas, all being well. The first 100,000 words have been reworked a number of times, and I am reasonably happy with them, but the next 20 thousand still need a bit of work. The f…
Continue readingAustralia is home to dancing spiders, minute little creatures, surely adorable even to arachnophobes. They are called Peacock Spiders because of their bright, vibrant colours. They are also rarely seen, because they are so tiny… about the size of hal…
Continue readingJust a picture of a Eucalypt tree, because it’s beautiful.And some news to let readers know that my latest work-in-progress is in fact galloping towards the final 10%!The Fugitive Queen is approaching the climatic scenes of the ending when — I hope –…
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