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Book Review: Midsummer Night
I finished reading Freda Warrington’s Midsummer Night a couple of days ago. It’s taken me the intervening time to be ready to write a review on the 2010 release. Why so long? Well, to put it simply, I...
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Five Influential Authors
I was supposed to be writing a book review for today’s post, but with everything else happening this week, I didn’t have a chance to finish reading one. Okay, that’s not exactly true. I could have. I...
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Writing Lessons from Janice Hardy
If you’re a writer and you don’t know the name Janice Hardy, you really should. If not for her books, then certainly for her blog: The Other Side of the Story. This is one of my absolute favourite...
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Flash Fiction: Smoke and Mirrors
The below story is one I wrote quite a few years ago, and then tidied up a bit last month. It’s a lot lighter and fluffier than most of my more current work. I hope you enjoy it. As always, I love...
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Five Reasons to Read Outside Your Genre
Life is a busy thing these days and sometimes it’s hard enough to carve out writing time every week. But as Stephen King says: If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to...
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BWF: Building Castles in the Air
Last weekend I was thrilled to attend the Brisbane Writer’s Festival. I attended four workshops over three days, talked to established authors, beginning writers and everyone in between, and...
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Flash Fiction: Revenging the Rhythm
This week’s challenge from Mr. Wendig over at TerribleMinds was a good one: Use the sentence “A novice revenges the rhythm” in a 1000 word story. At the beginning, at the end, somewhere in between… It...
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The Hobbit: My Secret Shame
Ask any fan of speculative fiction, and they’ll doubtless list The Hobbit as one the must-read books of the fantasy genre. It’s the book that precedes The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and sets the...
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Do You Believe in Dragons?
“Mummy, are dragons real?” Big Brother is five years old. Nearly six. He loves stories of knights and dragons. He wants to be a superhero when he grows up so he can protect people. “Are they extinct?”...
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