How are you all? Keeping sane as much as possible? Like many of you, I’m now working from home and trying to keep away from the public in general. I keep seeing all these posts everywhere about what famous writers wrote while they were in quarantine and all I can think is…please fuck off. ChuckContinue reading “March Update: Writing in the Time of the ‘Rona”
Category Archives: Research
February Update a.k.a. Atlantis is my Kink
Hey Everyone! I’m back! If you saw my social media posts (fyi I tend to only hang about Instagram these days) you would’ve seen I went on a much needed social media hiatus and went full Hermit mode. The constant bad news stream was messing with my word count and anxiety too much so IContinue reading “February Update a.k.a. Atlantis is my Kink”
‘A’ is for August and Atlantis
It’s exactly 1 month and 8 days until the release of ‘The Immortal City’ and so I thought I’d change the usual blog format up to talk about Atlantis, in particular, two historical figures that are mentioned in the book; Plato and Helena Blavatsky. Let’s start with Plato, the Greek Grand Daddy of allContinue reading “‘A’ is for August and Atlantis”
July Update and Big Changes
Argh! 1 month and 26 days until ‘The Immortal City’ release! I thought I’d be less excited by now but the opposite is proving true – I AM PUMPED. I can’t wait until this baby is out in the world. It will be my first release with a traditional publishing house so I feel likeContinue reading “July Update and Big Changes”
June Update
June is almost gone, and I’ve been flat out as usual. The blog unfortunately is the first thing that suffers but if I can get to it before the month is out I count it as a win. Okay first up… ‘The Immortal City’ got a good review in Publishers Weekly this month. It’s aContinue reading “June Update”
Early May Update
Holy crap it’s May already – HOW did this happen? There hasn’t been a proper update on this blog for a while so here I am to give you all the news. Firstly, thank you thank you thank you to everyone who blogged, liked, re-tweet or requested an ARC for ‘The Immortal City.’ The responseContinue reading “Early May Update”
August Update
Hey Everyone, It’s been a while since I’ve done an update so I’ll try not to make it too long. The reason I’ve been so quiet on the blog and social media is that I’m under the pump to get a book finished and edited by November. It’s a part of the Secret Project seriesContinue reading “August Update”
Friday essay: Joan of Arc, our one true superhero
Ali Alizadeh, Monash University One need not be a parent of a young child, as I am, to be conscious of the full-blown resurgence of the superhero in contemporary popular culture. Beyond the dizzying proliferation of fetishised merchandise to do with Marvel and DC protagonists and the frankly obscene sights of middle-aged folk squeezed intoContinue reading “Friday essay: Joan of Arc, our one true superhero”
We humans are the stories we tell ourselves -The Narrative Ape
Source: The Narrative Ape A great blog today via Curtis Craddock for Tor/Forge Blog! Written by Curtis Craddock I am. It’s the shortest story in the English language. It’s really the root of all stories and, by extension, the act of being human. Biologists, archaeologists, and anthropologists like to argue about what makes humans people. HowContinue reading “We humans are the stories we tell ourselves -The Narrative Ape”
Friday essay: the legend of Ishtar, first goddess of love and war
Ishtar (on right) comes to Sargon, who would later become one of the great kings of Mesopotamia. Edwin J. Prittie, The story of the greatest nations, 1913 Louise Pryke, Macquarie University As singer Pat Benatar once noted, love is a battlefield. Such use of military words to express intimate, affectionate emotions is likely related toContinue reading “Friday essay: the legend of Ishtar, first goddess of love and war”
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