Not A Man by Marj McRae “The hero is an eunuch.” said the author Marj McRae. “Wait, what?” was my reaction. She emailed me the link, I downloaded Not A Man in e-book form and dove in. An eunuch – I expected there to be a few descriptions of not so very nice things – violence and rape. I mean, ...

So I mentioned to a writing group that I am part of on Facebook that I am trying to do this challenge. And I asked them to suggest titles. Because otherwise I was going to be stuck. And they have come up trumps. Now I am only going to review certain books in certain genres so I can say now ...

I don’t know what 2014 is the year of. Apart from being the Year of the Green Wood Horse. And apparently the International Year of Family Farming so please think about where your food and... [[ 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! ]]

  You have at least three library memberships and at least three different piles of books that are overdue and need to be returned. You get excited at the idea of getting a higher borrowing... [[ 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! ]]

No. I am NOT hallucinating. Though it was a bit difficult when I first looked on Google for where I could go mushroom picking in Perth and I got quite a few “magic mushroom” results... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

A detective. That works with the paranormal. So where do I sign up? I got hold of this because Eleni Konstantine was kind enough to send me a pdf version to review. Eleni writes short fiction, not... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Hi everyone, One of the projects taking up my time these days is organising the 6th IPEd National Editors Conference which will be in Perth in April 2013. We have international and national writers, publishers and editors attending and it’s going to be absolutely fantastic. We opened registrations yesterday so if you are in Perth in April and are keen ...

This was an area of great interest and concern when I curated the @realscientists Twitter account a couple of months ago. People had their horror stories and others wanted to know how it should be... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

So want to go out with a bang this year in terms of networking? Why yes, you still can. You may have missed the most surreal night of the year at the WA Media Awards this year, but you can still make... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

1) You have a cat. 2) You have more than one cardigan… and you wear them all. 3) You have passionate views on the Oxford comma and you actually know what it is and can cite rather crude... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

“Ten minutes or so,” the guy at the pizza place says. I nod and walk out. And then walk on. Down Canning Highway, towards Freo. I should have known that when I started out to the pizzeria... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

In 2013, I joined the Australian Women Writers blog and project as the non-fiction contributing editor. This meant I also ended up taking the challenge of at least reading if not reviewing various... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Q: What does an editor look for in a crime fiction story? A: The story has to be intriguing, puzzling, not too easy to solve and not too hard either and it has to logically work. That in a nut shell... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

This being the start of 2013, of course everyone is talking about New Year Resolutions. In fact, come December 1st everyone starts ruminating on this topic. And then of course there is a lot of angst over what one hasn’t done yet and that horrible nagging feeling that somehow you are running out of time to do X, Y and ...

A couple of weeks ago, a former university friend of mine (she was doing her BA, I was doing my MA) got in touch with me and asked me to meet her for coffee. I said “Sure!” And we did and she asked me a question: “How do I get into freelancing?”  This was someone who has a job at ...

I have a sudden irresistible urge to buy pens. That gush with ink with colours seeping into white woven fibres on the page. Paper was meant to be written, scribbled, scrawled, drawn on, meaning overflowing arbitrarily declared boundaries. Everything ever present or absent on a page means something, and contributes to a larger idea and even more amazingly, can be ...

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 ...

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! ]]