Wylt’s launch is one week away! Thank you to all of the lovely ARC readers who have given me feedback in time for me to fix a few formatting mistakes so the finished copy is perfect. This blog is going to be as spoiler free as possible but I wanted to share with you howContinue reading “Origins of WYLT : The Blood Lake Chronicles”
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WYLT: Chapter One – Sneak Peak
Prologue In the dream, the man smelled of horses and wood varnish as he gathered the little girl close in his arms. Wind whipped off the lake, but in her father’s arms, she was warm and safe. She held her stick sword firmly in one plump hand as he lowered her to the ground. “YouContinue reading “WYLT: Chapter One – Sneak Peak”
Cry of the Firebird Second Edition Giveaway
In the last few weeks I’ve been in full editing mode. It seems to be around Christmas that I tie up projects and turn ‘Editor Feral.’ I don’t know if it’s because I don’t have the time to write new material or if it’s because I need a month or so to start the yearContinue reading “Cry of the Firebird Second Edition Giveaway”
Digital Abundance in Publishing isn’t killing Culture – It’s saving it
Note: This is an essay I wrote recently for my degree and even though it has a strong Australian Publishing focus I still thought I’d share. ‘Publishing finds itself in the midst of a “phase shift” from the scarcity model of print to a complex, new world of digital abundance,’ (Lichtenberg 2011) and it is this shiftContinue reading “Digital Abundance in Publishing isn’t killing Culture – It’s saving it”
You Need to Check out this Blog – How To Create Art And Make Cool Stuff In A Time Of Trouble
Hey writers Chuck Wendig put up a great blog post today on how to keep creating when the world is crazy and it’s getting to you. I highly recommend you have a read and keep the art love flowing: ‘Art is how you fight back. It’s how you take ALL THIS NOISE inside your heart andContinue reading “You Need to Check out this Blog – How To Create Art And Make Cool Stuff In A Time Of Trouble”
Expression, Why it is Necessary — The Evolutionary Mind
When we express something it is generally the key into our mind. However expression is not the only way for us and others to find ourselves. We have to express our thoughts, feelings, and state of mind at any point in time; it is what has to happen. The thing is, in society, people are… viaContinue reading “Expression, Why it is Necessary — The Evolutionary Mind”
Failed NaNoWriMo but still got a book out of it.
Those who know me know that I’ve never taken failure well even though I seem to be turning it into a spectacular kind of performance art piece in which I live my life. This isn’t a bad thing. Some of the greatest things have happened to me in the middle of a grand failure; I met my awesome partner failing at a job; IContinue reading “Failed NaNoWriMo but still got a book out of it.”
‘…stories change our behaviors by actually changing our brain chemistry.’
In his 1897 book What is Art? the great Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy defined art as “an infection.” Good art, Tolstoy wrote, infects the audience with the storyteller’s emotion and ideas. The better the art, the stronger the infection—the more stealthily it works around whatever immunities we possess and plants the virus. Tolstoy reached thisContinue reading “‘…stories change our behaviors by actually changing our brain chemistry.’”
Let’s Stop Cannibalising Ourselves and Start Making Art
I can’t be the only one that’s noticed inflammatory shit happening in the world of writing in the last few weeks. There was Lionel Shriver’s smug speech and the subsequent uproar a.k.a. Brisbane finally gets publicity apart from Tom Hiddleston’s visit and there was also Merritt Tierce’s article in Marie Claire a.k.a the Crying StarvingContinue reading “Let’s Stop Cannibalising Ourselves and Start Making Art”
The Melody of The Music of Razors
In nineteenth-century Boston, a young doctor on the run from the law falls in with a British confidence artist. Together, and with dire consequence, they bring back to the light something meant to be forgotten. A world away in London, an absent father, haunted by the voice of a banished angel, presents his daughter withContinue reading “The Melody of The Music of Razors”
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