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Creatives Unite – Min Dean

Creatives Unite - Min Dean

Creatives Unite - connecting writers to the resources they need to get their books finished, seen and sold. So, you've written a novel and you want to get it published. Fantastic! You now have some important choices to make. Will you to try your luck with a conventional publisher, or will ...

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Spotlight On: Freedom Fall (game)

Spotlight On: Freedom Fall (game)

BEC STAFFORD INTERVIEWS LISA RYE To what do you attribute the resurgence in retro-style games? I believe the resurgence of retro-style games is coming from the gamers who grew up playing games, and wanting to make their own. I had classics when I was little, like Commander Keen and Chrono Trigger, which ...

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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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The feeling of sending a novel off to your editor/publisher is quite euphoric. Having done that last Friday (Tara Sharp 3) I headed off to Supanova feeling light and deserving of a break.  In that frame of mind, how could I fail to have fun at my favourite event!

Many thanks to Ineke for making my stay on the Dymocks stall so pleasant and a big wave to my fellow authors – Ian Irvine, Cory Daniells, Kylie Chan, Tracey O’Hara and Keri Arthur (and Trent Jamieson, who was there on Saturday) for being such good company. It feels like home from home with my Supanova family; Missy, Fel, Q-dog, Bruce, Tiarne, Chris and Dion and Daniel and the Z family. One of the highlights of the weekend was having my photo taken with all of Damien’s Dr Who’s. I also caught up with a bunch of friends including Dinah Saur, Rupert, Allan, Maddy etc and finally got to meet Sean the Bookanaut.

While I was off cavorting, some things popped up on the net, including my interview with Holly Harper at Readings Books and Yunyu and my interview with The Spotlight Report, my favourite entertainment e-zine. I also blogged about Twelfth Planet’s Press’s World Fantasy Award win.

Ryssi made some neat Night Creatures badges for fans – so help yourself:

 

And I think that’s the current crop of news. I have Tom Taylor coming up in Super Creatives and (I hope) the director of the Gold Coast Film Festival. Stay tuned!

 

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I said there’d be some more Melbourne Supanopva pics and here they are:

MDP, Rowena Cory Daniells and a bunch of lovely books

MDP and Aaron - undercover brother

MDP and her twin Isobelle Carmody

Of Science and Swords Giant Tentacle

Of Science and Swords Giant Tentacle

More Cool:

Blog post about loving speculative fiction from Holly Harper at Readings Books, entitled The Myth of Fantasy.

The Spotlight Reports feature Yunyu and I.

Alison Goodman of Eon/Eona fame will be joining me for a kaffee klatsch in Melbourne in early May (email Braiden if you’d like to attend: basciak (at) gmail (dot) com Places strictly limited).

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