National Novel Writing Month – Three Weeks In.
I have been too busy writing to blog lately. I am currently doing National Novel Writing Month. The aim is to write 50,000 words for the month. As of a few moments ago, I have written 1826 words for the day, which betters the daily target of 1667 words. My best daily total is 2430 […]
National Novel Writing Month: The First Twelve Days.
This is my first blog post in over two weeks. I have been too busy writing fiction to blog. I am doing National Novel Writing Month and have written 18,544 words for a new novel over the past 12 days. The aim is to write 50,000 words by the end of the month, an average […]
National Novel Writing Month
I have decided to do National Novel Writing Month once more. I successfully completed it in 2011 and 2012. The aim of NaNoWriMo is for a writer to write a 50,000-word novel in November. My main reason for doing NaNoWriMo again is to motivate myself. Apart from the actual month, I know from previous years […]
A Review of Margaret Atwood’s Maddaddam
Maddaddam is the third book in a Margaret Atwood apocalyptic science fiction trilogy that began with Oryx and Crake, followed by a prequel, The Year of the Flood. Maddaddam is a sequel to both of the earlier books. The novels are set in a future that could be just around the corner. The Year of the Flood is set in a […]
Astounding!
Gobsmacked! Yesterday, I was astounded three times by new information about elements of books and publishing. There are How Many Self-publishers in Australia? The first piece of astounding information occurred when reading Jane Sullivan’s Book Marks column in The Age. I am a bit behind in my reading so I was reading her August 2 […]
The Melbourne Writers Festival: A Climate of Extinction.
At the recent Melbourne Writers Festival, I attended two sessions with climate change and the future of the planet at their centre. One of the sessions was called The Science of Survival, a discussion of the book The Sixth Extinction, written by journalist Elizabeth Kolbert. The book’s main contention is that the Earth is currently […]
First Flight – three debut authors at the Melbourne Writers Festival.
For the second Melbourne Writers Festival in a row I attended a session involving three debut authors. The session was free and held in a much larger room than last year’s session. The audience was young, probably many were aspiring writers. The authors were Holly Childs, Eli Glasman and Melinda Huston. The session was […]
Melbourne Writers Festival – Independent Publishers Panel
Independent Publishing: Where Next? One of the free sessions I attended at this year’s Melbourne Writers Festival was a discussion by three of Australia’s largest independent publishers about the current state and future of the publishing industry. The participants were Michael Heyward from Text, Chris Falk from Black Inc and Henry Rosenbloom from Scribe. […]
Melbourne Writers Festival – License to Thrill.
I went to the second weekend of the Melbourne Writer’s Festival. I am still not sure about its relatively new venue of Federation Square. It seems so sparse and sterile when compared to the crush of buzzing crowds at the Malthouse complex. I had a good time though. I was entertained as I was informed […]
Survey of the price of the top 100 selling ebooks in August.
I recently read an article in The Age that said the sales of ebooks were increasing, but the value of ebook sales had not increased. This suggests either the prices of ebooks are dropping or the price customers are buying ebooks for is decreasing. So I thought it was once more time to have a […]