The Marianne Delacourt site has relaunched with a fabulous design by Austin Designworks. I was particularly happy to be able to find
some galah images that we could incorporate into the look. I have three galahs and Tara Sharp, the protagonist of the Delacourt books, has two. Five galahs between us amounts to a whole lot of things being chewed, and a whole lot of noisy mischief.
Category: News
Scott Sigler has been and gone at Parrish’s Patch and you can read the chat here. You can also read Bec Stafford’s interview with popular Australian performance poet, Zenobia Frost over at my YA site. All interesting reading for the middle of the weekend.
I played my first basketball games in two years on Saturday. What astounded me most was how much my skills have dropped away in that time. Fitness, yes, well you expect that … but the ball felt like a hot potato in my hands. I did manage a few blocks, but that was the extent of my usefulness. It felt great to be on the court though, and the girls were all moaning as much as me about aches and pains, so we struck a symphony of accord.
Other than that, I’m heading to Sydney and Perth in the next two weeks for Supanova. Looking forward to seeing everyone and exercising my jaw. Check out the programme here. I’ll be presenting on seminar on Fiction Writing.
I had internet plans for this evening; blogging, newsletter prettying, researching … and then NCIS came on, my feet got warm and I ate casserole. Now my eyelids are now heavy and the screen is starting to blur. Bed is calling. I will, however, stir myself up enough to mention that some goodies are just around the corner.
Bec will be posting her interview with fascinating performance poet, Zenobia Frost over at Burn Bright in the next few days. I’ve also posted a mini review there on Betrayed from the House of the Night series.
Marjorie Liu
My guest bloggers on this (MDP) site will be visiting soon, beginning with a writer whose work I love to bits, Jon Courtenay Grimwood. I don’t want to give away too many surprises but some of the other wonderful upcoming guests include Marjorie Liu, Charles Stross and Marv Wolfman.
Meanwhile, the Tara Sharp/Marianne Delacourt website is about to be re-launched with a beautiful, fun design by Austin Designworks. To celebrate the birth of the real Tara Sharp home, the second whodunnit, Fully Loaded is … well … fully loaded and ready to go online with the launch. Come by and meet Tara’s cousin Crack.
Lastly, don’t forget that if you wish to pre-order the Glitter Rose short story collection, just go to Twelfth Planet Press website (international orders taken). The book is a limited edition, with some beautiful colour and black and white internal illustrations.
