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This is just a quick note to say I’m taking a holiday. Our first extended trip since the Covid years. So they’ll be no new posts for a couple of months as we leave before winter arrives and enjoy warmer weather in the northern hemisphere. I do have a couple of newsletters coming out if you haven’t subscribed. You can read my last one by CLICKING HERE, and while there, you can subscribe to my…
Book Review - Reckoning by Magda Szubanski
My favourite Magda Szubanski sketch is called Satan’s Brides. From the comedy show Fast Forward, it features her female co-stars as suburban housewives coming together because they need to summon the devil. They have an important question they need to ask. You can click the link above to watch it. I knew before I read this, there were stories about her father. But I also expected a lot about her…
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The ingredients for a successful writing group
Over the past years I’ve been part of three writing groups. All had their merits, but the one I’ve rejoined this year is the best for several reasons. First off, it’s small. There are only four of us so every week, we each have time to present a scene and get feedback. I’ve realised how important this is because I was part of one last year with so many members, we only had several minutes to…
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The angst of creating your own reality
I’m not writing about writing this week. Instead, I want to share several observations about a world where many live within the confides of their mind, rather than living in reality. It’s interesting that I write this today as we are off to a party at a friend’s place where no one is ever on their phones. At one gathering this friend had, a guest kept pulling hers out while we were trying to…
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Getting feedback
It’s no secret I enjoy my writers’ group. Last week, one of the members reminded me why this type of feedback is important. There are only four in our group which allows us to get a lot done during our three hour sessions. We read our scene out loud while our fellow scribes follow with their own printed copies. Then we discuss. One of our group is in his seventies, and I’m presenting a story set…
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Book Review - Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
The Japanese have a beautiful culture. It’s polite and reflective. It sometimes takes on kooky elements. All of which are found in Kawaguchi’s novella, Before the Coffee Gets Cold. There’s a cafe where a ghost sits in the same seat every day, reading. When she needs to go to the toilet (did I mention kooky?), other patrons take her seat for a chance to revisit the past. They can’t leave the seat…
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Book Review - The Remains of the Day by Kazio Ishiguro
I’ve wanted to read this for a while. I loved Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go and was indifferent to Klara and the Sun. Of course, I’ve seen the movie of The Remains of the Day which I suspect has a different ending. I’m not totally sure as it’s been a while. Mr Stevens is a butler, and has been all his life. He’s finicky. Everything has to be done to a tee in the household he runs, so much so that…
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The importance of a good Writing Group
I’ve returned to my favourite Writing Group. I was away for a year for personal reasons but in the meantime, joined another who met fortnightly on Saturdays. There were some really great writers there, but we only had five minutes to read and five minutes for feedback. But I continued until the organiser said something to me at our end of year drinks. She had been wondering what advantage I was…
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Book Review - How to Dodge Flying Sandals by Daniel Nour
I loved this book! This is a memoir with artistic license, as Nour himself points out in the Author’s Note at the front of this work. What follows is an entertaining array of stories from his life. These anecdotes are from the point of view of a closeted Australian born man with Egyptian heritage, although he’s not closeted now. I knew a younger gay man once who had Arabic heritage, and Nour’s…
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Growing older
Last year I turned sixty-one. My husband, Warren, has been with me for three and a half decades, and he is two and a half years older. This has meant I’ve had insight into how I’ll view life in coming years, no matter what age I am. At times I haven’t understood his point of view, but whenever I’ve caught up to a particular birthday, I had fresh perspective on where his mind was. Then I was…
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My friend used my novel for his AI assignment!
A friend of mine is studying AI. He is doing the course for his job and at one stage asked if he could use one of my manuscripts for an assignment. At least, that’s what he tells me. I don’t recall. The thing is, he used an unpublished manuscript I asked him to read because part of the plot is based on our shared real life experiences. I was uneasy at first when he showed me how AI reimagined my…
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Tinkering with a polished manuscript
I’m entering a competition. It’s for a chance to be published with a well respected publisher. I seriously don’t think I’ll be one of the finalists judging from past winners, but it gives me a chance to be seen by local industry professionals. Some would say, ‘why bother?’ Well, first off, I’m a paid member of the organisation offering this opportunity, which means it is free for me to submit.…
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Book Review - The Last Love Note by Emma Grey
They say, write what you know. This is evident in Emma Grey’s beautiful novel, The Last Love Note. It’s the story of Kate, a thirty-something woman who is married to her soul mate, Cam, a young English professor who is suffering from Alzheimer’s. This story begins several years after Cam has passed, then flits back and forth, giving us glimpses of a happy marriage, Cam’s diagnosis, and a Romance…
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Literary Speed Dating
Last week I did my second Literary Speed Dating event. This event was online unlike the previous one I did. Back then I joined a large number of eager authors waiting in line to impress representatives from publishing houses. We rehearsed our spiel, performed for an acquisitions editor, answered questions, then joined the next queue hoping someone would give us a book contract. While I loved the…
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My first self published book
This is a blog to celebrate the release of Grayson’s Magical Mishaps. It is part of the Haunted Hearts: Season of the Witch series; ten MM Romance novels written by ten different gay authors, all released leading up to Halloween and all featuring a wizard. Queer horror writer, J.P. Jackson, instigated this project after the success of last year’s Haunted Hearts series which all featured a…
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When AI steals your cover art
Some freaky things are happening. Authors are receiving emails with AI generated praise to convince them to sign up for paid promotions. Several of us have been comparing these in online writers’ groups. Two popped into my inbox in just as many days and they sound like this: I just finished reading about Drama Queens and Devilish Schemes, and I have to say what a delightfully original and…
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Book Review - King of Dirt by Holden Sheppard
First off, the plot is perfect for a movie. It lends itself much easier to a screen adaptation than Holden Sheppard’s other works – each dramatic cinematic beat is here. Two earlier scenes really resonated, setting up Jack Brolo’s low opinion of himself, and later, his state of mind returning to the town he grew up in. Both beautifully written. When Jack returns home, we meet his toxic family…
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