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Live Reacts and the Terror they invoke
So its only been three months, not a largely embarrassing about of time, and I’m writing again! What’s more, I’m actually getting through some of my TBR as well! The problem of getting through the list though, is that sometimes you grab a novel that you intend to read over…
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A Lair of Bones – by Helen Scheuerer
Helen Scheuerer is no stranger to quality fiction, but as much as I enjoyed the Oremere Chronicles, A Lair of Bones is easily (in my humble opinion) her best book yet. A Lair of Bones creates a completely foreign world and unique society in Talon’s Reach, with the brutal and…
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Podcasting with Words and Nerds!
It’s been a quiet few months for me without writing (and hence blogging), but that doesn’t mean it’s been a quiet few months overall! While I had to reassess the deadlines I’d set myself for my WIP – that’s the nice way of saying I didn’t make them – I…
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Some Aurealis Favourites
Last Thursday we got to celebrate the best speculative fiction books of 2020 at the Aurealis Award ceremony. For the second year running it was done via Zoom, which unfortunately meant the social side was a little more difficult, but even seeing a bunch of familiar faces on the screen…
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Moonlit Genesis – by Chris Andrews
I’ve been looking forward to this book for a while. In the interests of full disclosure, I’ve known Chris for a more than a few years now, and I remember the draft of this book coming through. It was a whole lot of fun then, and with a bit of…
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Peta Lyre’s Rating Normal – by Anna Whateley
I actually read this book a while ago, but after a run of ‘meh’ stories, I’d rather give the time and effort to talking up a fantastic book rather than go the other way. It doesn’t mean I’ll never give a bad review, but it won’t be something I’ll be…
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Publication alert!
In all the excitement (?) of rolling into 2021, I nearly forgot to post a celebratory announcement – Unnatural Order, an anthology containing the first story I ever sold, Trench, is now out there in the world! It’s been a weird year already, and celebrating anything feels like its premature,…
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6 lessons from studying creative writing
2020 has been an interesting year. As in, the Firefly definition of interesting, rather than the the more fun kind. But the last couple of months, on a personal level at least, has started to look up. I commenced a 6 month Write Your Novel course with the Australian Writers’…
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Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women – Lee Murray and Geneve Flynn
Okay, so I know I said one a month, but I’m only a day late, right? Would you believe I was reading or writing and got distracted? Which *segue* is an apt description for Black Cranes. A distracting book that completely distracted me from doing all the other things I…
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The Final Word, with Dr Isobelle Carmody
It was a dark and stormy night. . . It might seem a cliché, but the soft rain and occasional distant thunderclap seemed an apt setting as a haunting solo rendition of The Cranberry’s Zombie by local musician Sophie Maurice set the atmosphere. Newly-awarded Doctor and beloved Australian children’s author…
Nathan J Phillips 