
Saturday, October 27, 2007
Friday, October 26, 2007
Grant. Yes, Grant.
The sky's getting all thunderous, the earth is shaking and I have been given a grant.
I haven't been able to blog anything until today, but Ozco has given me a grant. So I'll be able to spend next year writing a fantasy children's series called "The Players". I've wanted to do this for some time, but this series involves a lot of research (mainly into acting and stagecraft) and I really didn't want, nor could afford, to do it justice unless I had a grant. So I've spent the last six months not even thinking about the G (or the P) word, because I really didn't expect to get it.
But I did, and I'm still wrapping my head around the whole thing.
Thanks to the extremely tolerant Ben Peek for letting me know, and sending me a photo of the grants list via phone when I didn't quite believe him, because I didn't, not that I don't trust Ben, but I just couldn't imagine that I would get it. And even when he'd sent me the photo, I really thought it must be some other Trent Jamieson, until I got the paperwork on Tuesday.
Thanks to Marianne De Pierres and Margo Lanagan, who helped me beat my submission into shape. And thanks to the guys at Shiny for taking my story Cracks, which I used as part of my writing sample. And thanks to the ABC for publishing the Shimmaron books because I'm sure that helped. And thanks to all my Ror family because I think every writer needs something like ROR.*
And thanks to Diana who's encouraged me all the way, despite some pretty awful stuff that went on this year.
Now, I better write something damn good in 2008. And you'll be hearing all about it here.
*Unless they don't.
Walking Talking
It's called Walking Talking. If you want to see one of things I've been working on this year, check it out, warning though, it's pretty rough, still needs a good kick around, and an edit, so feel free to laugh at my punctuation.
Sunday, October 21, 2007
1977
Happy Birthday, sis! I can't believe another sibling's hit the big three O.
Saturday, October 20, 2007
1001 Nights Cast and Sundry Thoughts
And what a week it was.
Next week should be a more focussed week.

Thursday, October 11, 2007
Creative Spaces
Monday, October 08, 2007
Zahir is right here
It sure looks pretty, and it contains my story "Hardeen Reflects on the Dark Arts and His Wife".
You know you want it.
First Shiny Review
Talking about my story - and writers like to talk about their stories, in the main - I was very pleased that the reviewer picked up that I was trying to get the reader out of the narrative - even if they were a little irked by it.
There's a scene in the story - which is only quite a short tale, and part of me wonders whether it quite bears the weight of what I was trying to achieve - where my character, Julia, talks about the sort of story she would have prefered to inhabit. This was the original story I was writing, until the story told me it wasn't, which was something of a pain at the time, because I think the original story would have been easier to write.
Anyway, get yourself a copy of Shiny, and see what you think. Eugie and Sue's stories are excellent, and both worth the price of the e-zine, in my opinion.
Sunday, October 07, 2007
And the rain is dancing, sliding across the sky.
And it's a Brisbane storm. And the city is at once gorgeous, and the city is at once pathetic, because it's a Brisbane storm, but barely, and soon it will be gone.
Friday, October 05, 2007
Balloon
