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As you may know, I live out in the Boondocks, the sticks, Woop Woop (or pick your own quaint phrase meaning “the middle of nowhere”). The main industries here are fruit growing and wine making. They play country and western musak in the local supermarket and the churches outnumber the pubs about twenty to [...]
Lately, four of the self-published authors I follow (on their blogs and Twitter) have said that they are giving up. Some are giving up writing altogether, some are giving up their attempts to be successful. Four is quite a rash and I wonder if it is a sign of things to come. The three [...]
Sunshine is inimical to writing. The grass grows and has to be cut. The weeds grow and have to be killed. The fruit grows and has to be coddled like a baby. The dog staggers to the shadows, and drops. That seat among the tress beckons like a favourite vice. You take your laptop [...]
A profound change has come upon me. No, it’s not the male menopause, although I’m long overdue for a red sports car and a dab of Rogaine. No, this change is based on the realisation that from this week onward, whatever I’m doing, wherever I am, I will never be without a book to [...]
Please excuse me. I’m about to rant. It’s not a pretty sight and I wouldn’t blame you if you went somewhere else right now. (And, if you’re wondering where would be a good place to escape to, try the Hope anthology online book launch – it’s in a very good cause.)
I’ve just been [...]
I’ve been looking forward to this launch, partly because the book contains some of my favourite Australian SFF writers, partly because the whole point of the book is to raise awareness of suicide, and partly because it contains the first story of mine ever to be published that features one of my favourite creations, [...]
I came across a tweet today. It was from a complete stranger, about a book I’d never heard of. This is the full text:
“Whassamatter with you guys? 127 minutes to go and the offer for a FREE Kindle copy of [Book Title] closes! Tick tock…”
Reading between the characters (tweets are so short [...]
It is a sad and terrible indictment of the society in which we live that a woman like Yasmin McKillop might die because she can’t afford the surgery that could save her life. Yasmin is a young woman, a nurse who cares for old people at my local hospital. She’s one of those lovely [...]
I’m 24,000 words into my new novel and I can’t help thinking about the process I’m going through as I hammer this story out, word by word.
Novels take a long time to write. Well, they take me a long time. Some people bang out several in a year. I’m happy if I can [...]
(This review first appeared in the New York Review of Books.)
Belief comes first, rationalizations follow behind. That is the basic theme of this new book on belief by professional sceptic, Michael Shermer. Belief comes first because we’re wired that way, Dr. Shermer says. We see patterns in everything (sometimes even when they aren’t [...]
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Yasmin is a lovely young woman who has a brain tumour and needs $60,000 for an operation that could save her. She doesn't have the money and her sister has started an appeal. Please visit the appeal's Facebook page and give what you can.
Books I Recommend I have put together a set of books which are, in my view, the best sci-fi ever written. If you want to know my taste in sci-fi, or if you’re interested in expanding your own collection, go and take a look.
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