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Barricades and Brickwalls

July 22nd, 2008 at 6:02 am » Comments (6)

[*no, I’m not talking about Kasey Chambers. Catchy title, though, so I’m going to borrow it.]
Yesterday:
The Good: An expression of interest was made in pre-ordering my book; this will end up being a number somewhere over 50 copies, which is wonderful.
The Bad: I received a letter in the mail from a book distributor who I […]


The Melbourne Writers’ Festival program is out - yes, I’m still pinching myself

July 18th, 2008 at 5:18 am » Comments (13)

Update: The entire program can be found in today’s The Age newspaper. My session is in there, but my author profile didn’t make it (although I think they did warn me that might happen). Now I just have to try and decide what other sessions I’d like to go to. Anyone else going? Who are you […]


Tired. Really tired.

July 15th, 2008 at 2:29 pm » Comments (5)

My father yesterday hopped on a plane and came down for a few days to help me as I slowly, so very slowly, begin recovering from WhateverthehellvirusfromSatan’slaboratory which has knocked me around for over a week.
This was a lovely gesture, and I thank him dearly; however the day so far, whenever I try to escape […]


Further to yesterday’s news

July 11th, 2008 at 9:09 am » Comments (4)

I’ve just been told I will be unable to get an advance copy of Surprise! back by the time the Melbourne Writer’s Festival rolls around at the end of next month. Not that I was really thinking of doing a reading of it to a room full of adults - not unless they were happy to […]