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.
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
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
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.
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,
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
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
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
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
Lucy is a strange science-fiction movie. Not so much because of its subject matter, more because it flirts with so many science-fiction sub-genres. But more about that latter. The film begins in Taiwan where Lucy, Scarlett Johansson, is exposed to
I recently read a blog post titled A Scientific Guide to Posting Tweets, Facebook Posts, Emails and Blog Posts at the Best Times, by Belle Beth Cooper. The post had me thinking about the random nature of my blog posts.
I wrote this article just over a year ago but I could not find a paying home for it, so here it is. Up until the twentieth century, cannabis was frequently used in western medicine. But more effective painkillers such
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