. Worldcons are not just about panels, of course. [Pamela Freeman, Brandon Sanderson, Karen Miller, Margaret Bonham, Patrick Rothfuss on a panel entitled: “The Return of the King: the novelist’s fascination with monarchy.] There are so many good things … … Continue reading
. One of the things that people do at a sf/f convention is go and listen to the panels. There are plenty of them to choose from, and the problem is often which to choose because there are a large … Continue reading
Jennifer Fallon has pointed out that Harper Collins Australia website now has the”browse inside the book” facility. You can now take a peek inside each of the Mirage Maker titles here by clicking on the title of each book. Be … Continue reading
Aah, Hrugaar tells me I have got the International times for the Virtual Conflux sff convention wrong. Let me check. I always am lousy at this! Yep, here are the correct times for my appearance: Malaysia/Perth: 10 a.m. SaturdayCanberra/Sydney: 12 … Continue reading
CONFLUX is the science fiction/fantasy convention held in Canberra. This year, prior to the convention they are repeating what they did last year: having a Virtual Convention. Next weekend.So even if you can’t go to the real thing, you can … Continue reading
Getting there, getting there. If I think of the target for the first draft as being 170,000 then the picometer looks like this which is even better: However, I am taking a bit of a break for a few days, … Continue reading
–I love it the way my agent blithely says: Send me a synopsis, will you? – as if I can churn one out in ten minutes. I’d rather write a 5,000 word chapter than one synopsis for a single book, … Continue reading
I am writing,writing,and writing… CHAPTER ONE The man beneath her was dead. His eyes stared upwards past her shoulder, sightless, sad, the vividness of their blue already fading. For a while his blood had seeped from his wounded chest into … Continue reading
The lovely Satima has interviewed moi here, on Specusphere. And in the meantime, here’s progress on Book Two (Stormshifter) of The Time of Random Rain trilogy. Zinging along now, with over 1,500 new words of immortal prose a day… And … Continue reading
I often delve into a blog site called Writer Unboxed. Great place for writers and people who want to be writers and for readers who want to know a bit about the process. The brain child of Therese Walsh and … Continue reading
