Aussiecon 4 – Young Adult Panels.
Hi all, At Aussiecon 4 I attended three panels specifically targeted at writers of young adult fiction.Border Crossing: YA Authors Writing for Adults.Panelists: Cory Doctorow (Canadian sci-fi novelist), Alison Goodman (Australian fantasy novelist) Marianne De Pierres (Australian sci-fi novelist) and Bec Kavanagh as moderator It seems that whether a book is classified as YA or […]
My writing week 3 (36) – More on Aussiecon
Hi all,I caught a cold at Aussiecon: my brain must have been too busy processing information from the 18 panels I attended to direct my immune system. I tried to write this post yesterday, but my brain was too busy directing my immune system to stop me accidentally deleting it half way through. I have […]
Red Queen, H.M. Brown, A review.
Hi all, I decided to read Red Queen, by Australian author H.M. Brown, after reading a review of it in The AGE. The review was positive and said that the novel had won last year’s Aurealis award for best horror novel, but that is not what had me wanting to read it, it was the […]
My vote for the Hugo nominated novella.
Hi all, I finally finished reading the best novella nominees for the Hugos. They were not small, with the average size being about 100 pages. I thought a couple of the nominees were more fantasy than science fiction. I had only heard of two of the authors before, Nancy Kress and John Scalzi. The novellas […]
My pick for the movie Hugo
Hi all, I watched Moon two nights ago, the last of the five movies nominated for this year’s Hugo. The other nominees are: Up, Avatar, District 9 and Star Trek. Up is an animated fantasy film with some science fiction elements. It is about an old grump who is about to be forced out of […]
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 […]