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The Grandmother Chronicles are moving
For those of you who follow this blog to keep up with my book project based on my grandmother’s stories, I’ve started a website for the project now that it’s really underway and I’ll be blogging there...
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This Is Not A Film Review: Life of Pi
Last week I saw Ang Lee‘s film adaptation of Yann Martel‘s novel The Life of Pi courtesy of Fox Studios Australia. It was a pretty intense experience. The pacing was amazing, it was looked and sounded...
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New Project: Women of Genesis
The Book of Genesis is the first book of all Christian Bibles and of the Torah. It is the story of how some of the ancient Semitic peoples became Jewish. Throughout the book, the god of the Hebrews...
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Not a Book Review: Sufficient Grace
On the long flight from Australia to Montréal I read Amy Espeseth’s debut novel Sufficient Grace. And I loved it. Reading it was a beautiful experience: from the contained poetry of the title and the...
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Self-Publishing Is Not The Answer To Everything
‘Hey, you know, I was reading about this girl in Albuquerque who made millions self-publishing her book. You should do that.’ ‘Oh yeah, where did you read about that?’ ‘In the paper.’ ‘The newspaper?’...
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I Had an Article Published
It’s about SlutWalk and the sexual oppression of women. It’s published on We Matter Media and it goes like this: Apparently women who like to have a lot of sex want to be able to be called sluts and...
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Freedom
I didn’t blog as much as I wanted to while I was on The Big Trip because a truly poisonous ex was avidly reading everything I wrote online. Even though it was a condition of his bail that he not use...
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On the one hand
'Because,' she said, 'on the one hand, he's this person I had a relationship with.
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Melbourne Writers Festival 2014 is here
The Melbourne Writers Festival Hub this is Optic Kitchen and Bar at Federation Square. As of today it’s decked out in MWF 2014’s gorgeous vibrant-without-jarring yellow banners and flags and posters...
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MWF: the Mid-List Authors Soirée
Last Saturday, Melbourne writer Mel Campbell hosted an event of her creation, the Mid-List Author Soiree, at MWF. It was built around Mel wanting to bring together writers like she is: people who write...
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