Author: Graham Clements

Moving forward or my great big writing week 3 (28)

Hi all, I have been busy moving forward with my writing. Last week I finished the second draft of the novella. I plan on moving forward further this week by editing the novella before moving forward to having it critiqued. The novella moved forward in size by about a 1000 words between drafts. I wish […]

Aussiecon 4/Melbourne Writer’s Festival

Hi all, I just found out that The AGE Melbourne Writer’s Festival is on at the same time as Aussiecon 4. I had a look through its program in today’s AGE and saw that they have borrowed a few of the incoming science fiction writers like China Melville, Alastair Reynolds, Kim Stanley Robinson and Cory […]

Sad to see Kevin go

Hi all,I have just caught up on my reading about the dumping of Kevin Rudd as Prime Minister by the NSW Right, and in particular Mark Arbib. I read two articles in The Age stating that scumbag Arbib forced Kevin Rudd to postpone action on climate change, threatening him with the loss of his Prime […]

Does my photo appear?

Hi all, Yesterday an acquaintance was looking at my blog and the photo did not appear. They had just upgraded their computer to windows 2007 so that might have been the problem as the photo always appears for me. I was wondering if my computer has to be on for the photo to appear (I […]

Survival for 21st Century Writers.

Hi all, The transcript of the coyotecon.com online speculative fiction convention session Survival for 21st Century Writers is available here. I attended the session in which Scott Nicholson predicts that the ebook market will quickly be dominated by $2 ebooks and by the end of the decade most ebooks will be free. See my previous […]

Price of ebooks

Hi all, Critters.com have been running a survey on what a fair price for an ebook is. The average price respondents have suggested is US$7.78 for a new release and $4.60 for a back list book. Seeing as though most of the people who join critters would one day hope to be published authors, a […]

Review of Greg Egan’s Incandescence

Incandescence is a science-fiction novel set millions of years in the future. Humans have evolved into immortal data streams that can travel through the galaxy on cosmic rays and reconfigure themselves in any shape they desire. They are know as the Almalgam. At the core of the galaxy live the mysterious Aloof, who have rejected […]

Cataract Surgery, part two.

Hi all, It seems that my right eye has survived cataract surgery – wait a sec while I touch some wood. I had it done on Tuesday and went and saw the ophthalmologist, or Dr Nick as he is called (no relation to Dr Nick in the Simpsons), yesterday. He said everything is fine. When […]

Year Million, ed by Damien Broderick, a review.

Hi all, I’ve finally gotten around to reviewing the non-fiction book Year Million edited by Damien Broderick. Damien Broderick is one of Australia’s more prolific writers. I’ve enjoyed a number of his novels and thought his short story collection The Dark Between the Stars the best single author science fiction collection that I’ve read, but […]