This entry is part 18 of 17 in the series FreelancingIt occurred to me after this post a couple of weeks ago that it might be more useful to discuss in depth the practical but psychological/thought... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Amanda Curtin’s book Elemental will be officially launched tomorrow in Perth. It has been available for almost an entire month and I had the pleasure of interviewing her for this profile... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Inspired by the fact that Fremantle’s Dymocks has just closed. Posted here because people found it on Facebook and loved it and asked that it was posted on the blog. So here is a Monday Musing... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

No, I did not make a spelling error – it is Inceptio NOT Inception. If you think it sounds like a thriller, you would be right. If you thought it sounded like a Dan Brown novel you will be... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

This entry is part 16 of 16 in the series FreelancingCalista Bruchi, an editor I met at IPEdCon2013 (who has her own blog here) had these kind words to say about a guest post I wrote for Katy... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Recovering mostly. The conference is over. But the organisation part of it isn’t. There are accounts to be finalised and even now, still a lot of emails to answer. So let me digress to answer... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Apparently I am “amazing”. So amazing in fact that the Walkley team have asked me to be part of the Young Journalists Panel this year at the MediaPass Student Industry Day. Where: State... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Speakers/Presenters: Sarah J H Fletcher, Abigail Nathan, Patrick Horneman, Karen Strain, Dinesh Aggarwal and Marisa Wikramanayake The idea originally came about via a Twitter discussion between... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

The Wednesday workshops have started. Refresh the page to keep seeing the latest tweets and photos. As always, please check the main conference blog for all the posts, tweets and photos. Tweets about... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

As I write this, I’m sitting on the floor of the Perth train station, typing onto my phone’s keyboard with the phone plugged into an outlet that originally powered a vending machine.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Today we got to see the final #ipedcon2013 program. This is what lucky delegates will find in their bags on Thursday next week! It’s another reminder that this is actually happening. It’s... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Program, originally uploaded by Marisa Wikramanayake. Today, we got to see the final #ipedcon2013 program that all you lucky conference delegates will find in your bags on Thursday next week! It’s... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

About two years ago I put my hand up to be conference convenor for the 6th IPEd National Editors Conference in Perth in 2013. We are now a mere four days away from the event and no one on the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

I was curator/livetweeter/Twitter wrangler for the recent #ecuwapolchat – an experiment by the political journalism students at Edith Cowan University on interviewing candidates for the upcoming WA State Election (9 March 2013) and on livetweeting. Three out of the five candidates for the Mt Lawley electorate came to speak to us on Monday 4 March 2013 and we livetweeted the ...

So who exactly is Nury Vittachi? Well, apart from being a crime fiction writer and a keynote at the 6th IPEd National Editors’ Conference here in Perth in April 2013, I’ll let him do the talking: Nury Vittachi in a nutshell? A small, bald Asian writer who was born on earth and still spends a fair bit of time there.  Yes, ...

This entry is part 12 of 12 in the series Australian Women Writers Challenge 2013Note: Apologies for missing one week, readers. I was ill. Hopefully, I will catch up fast. Drive Me To Distraction by Caitlyn Nicholas I didn’t intend to read romance novels for the challenge. Romance novels are not really my thing. Mostly because I have had past bad ...

First off, I did not come up with the name. That was all Rob Kennedy‘s fault. Second, last I checked I am not a male member of the species so I am not actually an active participant – I am just there to make sure everything runs properly. And to carry a metaphorical whip so that the guys involved behave ...

This entry is part 11 of 11 in the series Australian Women Writers Challenge 2013Murder On The Apricot Coast by Marion Halligan When I first found this book, I was thrilled. Crime fiction is the genre I love diving into and it always thrills me to find a potentially interesting, intriguing new crime fiction author I haven’t found before. And ...

Rob Kennedy, an Australian poet (and male for the purposes of this discussion) asked this question in a blog post recently: Do real men read books?* He had several issues with this question: What the hell constitutes a “real man” anyway? To which I nod my head furiously because yes, what the hell are we discussing when we talk about ...

So Dale tagged me. Feel free to consider yourself tagged to answer these questions if you a) have a blog and b) have a book in the works. 1) What is the working title of your next book?

 ‘Tis called Sedition. 2) Where did the idea come from for the book? 
 I think I have mentioned this before but there ...