Review of Dan Rabarts’ Brothers of the Knife, a rollicking fantasy with an unlikely hero.
Book review: The Stonor Eagles, William Horwood
William Horwood was already a favourite, but this novel has elevated him once more in my eyes.
Goodreads reading challenge
I don’t normally measure the numbers of books I read in a year, though I do try to review those I do read written by my local community and friends. This year I’ve decided to participate in the Goodreads Reading Challenge. I’ve set a modest (for me) challenge of 50, and I’m about 3 into […]
Day on the Green: Florence and the Machine
Dusk’s multicoloured cloak enrobes the hills outside Geelong, softening the dry brown grass hills into something beautiful, a burgeoning moon rising of over the hill. This is when Florence and the Machine take the stage. A wild will-o-the wisp trips across the stage, a heart and head of burning, fierce joy. Her gossamer wings and […]
Good books: a power beyond measure
Late last year, when at a writing retreat, I picked up some second-hand books at a little bookshop cafe called Brunch Cafe. (Side note: a lovely place to stop in The Dandenongs, breathe in the books, browse with delight for your bookshelf and palate.) My holiday plans included lofty ideas of reading them all, and […]
2018 Round-Up
This post will be short as I don’t feel like I achieved much, but I recognise the imposter’s rancid breath in my ear in this. So, to acknowledge all the good in 2018, there was: First professional sale and publication, thanks to Jeff Wheeler and the Deep Magic team Publication of my oldest and most […]
Deep Magic Fall Issue
If you follow my social media pages, you’ll know that I have a story out in the Fall 2018 issue of US-based ezine, Deep Magic. Look at this stunning cover; don’t you want to fly away to these adventures? If you bought the mag and read, please head over to Amazon or Goodreads and leave […]
Recent reading, October 2018
It’s been an age since I blogged regularly, and I have half a dozen reviews I should have done, so I will write short reviews and post them up in other places later this week. Angela Slatter, Verity Fassbinder trilogy, Vigil & Corpselight A little late to the Verity party, I whittled down by TBR […]
Story sale: Sleepers
Sleepers will be appearing in the Fall issue of Deep Magic released next month.
The last comedy of Hannah Gadsby
Hannah Gadsby, Nanette: an experience and a lesson
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