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Serious Sas and Messy Magda

Serious Sas and Messy Magda

I am absolutely thrilled to announce that my first picture book is being released by UK based publisher Books To Treasure this year. Most of you probably aren't even aware that I have a number of children's publications to my name. Indeed, writing for primary school children was my first love. ...

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Knock Knock … anyone home?

Knock Knock ... anyone home?

My apologies for radio silence. I've been travelling for three weeks and had full intention of posting regulalry while I was away. I found that my tablet wasn't really up to the task, and that anyway, I was getting so little time to upload that it wasn't happening! Some of you ...

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MDP ON TV: Surviving Evil

MDP ON TV: Surviving Evil

There's something very compelling about survivor stories. Probably because we all have moments when we wonder what we would do if ... any number of things happened to us. In this new series hosted by Charisma Carpenter, we get to hear  stories from women who've survived violent attacks. The series begins with ...

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Review: One Small Step edited by Tehani Wessely

Review: One Small Step edited by Tehani Wessely

Reviewed by Joelene Pynnonen One Small Step is the perfect title for this anthology of stories by some very prominent Australian speculative fiction authors. It offers hope for the future and suggests the possibility of things that mere years ago seemed impossible. When taken in context of the famous quote ‘One ...

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Spotlight On: David Mickey Evans

Spotlight On: David Mickey Evans

Thanks to October Coast, we had the chance to interview american filmmaker and writer David Mickey Evans, best known as the director of the iconic "The Sandlot" movies, as part of the celebration of the first film's 20th Anniversary. In addition, Mr Evans is also promoting his book "The King of ...

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Are you a Maintenance Woman?

Are you a Maintenance Woman?

You know how I love flair when it comes to marketing and PR. It is it's own legitimate creative endeavour. When you couple that with a concrete, scientifically critical mind and great people skills, you come up with the kind of person who can move mountains. I want you all ...

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Spotlight On: Todd Farmer (Screenwriter)

Spotlight On: Todd Farmer (Screenwriter)

Todd interviewed by Bec Stafford.   1. Todd, you're running a 2-day writing master class at the Gold Coast Film Festival. Who were your writing role models, and what would be the #1 tip you'd give an aspiring screenwriter? Role model was without hesitation Stephen King.  Granted my influence was with his prose ...

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MDP Joins Keith Keller’s Global Social Media Coaching

MDP Joins Keith Keller's Global Social Media Coaching

As you know I love me a bit of Social Media! So this week I launched a social media coaching consultancy called (surprise, surprise MDPWeb Consultancy!). This is an exciting step for me, and I'm looking forward to working with some of you in the future. Good fortune has brought me into ...

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Dark Space Review

Dark Space Review

Good reviews are like pasta for a writer. We get enormous energy and sustenance from them. For me, I try and use the good ones as a motivation to keep going, and with the horrible ones, I tell myself everyone is entitled to their opinion - that's what makes the ...

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Night Creatures International Release Covers

Night Creatures International Release Covers

It's my great pleasure to show you the new international covers for the Night Creatures series. Artist Jarek Kubicki has worked with us so that we could bring you his amazing work. These covers use the same images but have different titling and text. Look for the great blogger quotes from Brodie, ...

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I’ve recently taken part in Fablecroft’s series on Indie Press and you can find my thoughts here. Also upcoming is an article in Geek Speak about the Peacemaker Comic and my Bibliobuffet In Conversation with Gillian Polack and Justina Robson. Will post those links soon.

Tara Sharp 3 is surging along on a tide of Tara-like investigations and nonsense. Always such fun to be in her head. I’ll be taking her with me to SheKilda and hope I can step out of Tara-land at the convention and be me!

Brigitte has done some character sketches for the new characters in issue 2  of Peacemaker and will be starting on the sequencing soon. YAY!

Angel Arias is in stores in about ten days and Yunyu’s wonderful new song Bluebeard will be made available free for everyone to enjoy with the book. The song really fits the tempo of Angel Arias which is quite a fast-paced survival tale. There is also a pirate in the book which connects well with the title (even though my pirate is called Ruzalia).

There’ve been some wonderful reviews for Burn Bright over the last few months but this is definitely one of the best I’ve read. The reviewer really understood the themes of the book.

Lastly, I’m always happy to see people are still discovering Parrish Plessis and this review just popped up for Nylon Angel. “Guts and Personal Demons” is certainly an apt description of Parrish!

 

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Glitter Rose has had some kind reviews; words that make an author’s tender heart expand and glow. Today there is one such review up at Bibliophile Stalker and recently over at Book Smugglers, Geek Speak and the Bayside Bulletin. However it was a casual line by Jeff Vandermeer that really touched me. In a Shelfari blog post he referred to the stories as ‘beautiful and delicate‘ and coming from him – a magnificent craftsmen – it was terribly gratifying and made me feel like the emotion I poured into those stories was worthwhile.

So that’s my writerly spillover for the day. I will add though, that because of my warm fuzzies,  there’ll be some Christmas giveaways during December of Glitter Rose, so watch both this website and the GR site.

Some upcomings for you to anticipate include an interview with the Cool Shite/Joffre Street Team, likewise for Team Apollo talking more about the new Apollo Awards, plus Super Creatives from Spike Spencer and Paul Jenkins and my girl, and brilliant comic artist, Nicola Scott. And you’ll all be thrilled to know that Anne Bishop will visit again in the future to talk about Ephemera and new worlds.

Wonder Woman by Nicola Scott
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