I've had enough people now tell me that they are having trouble accessing the Weebly site where I post general updates about my writing that I think moving these to a seperate blog on Blogger is called for. That was a long sentence.
From now on, please find these updates here. I will post a direct link from The Strickland Diaries as well. Below, I have posted all the entries that had been on Weebly to date.
Apologies for any inconvenience and the changing of bookmarks!
WEEBLY NOTICES TO DATE:
Juno Maps
07/14/2008
Check out the partial maps of Juno City at my novel blog. CLICK! Blog About THE BOOK
06/24/2008
I've created a blog, STRICKLAND DIARIES solely devoted to the unnamed novel I'm writing because I didn't want it cluttering up this space with all manner of weird yet interesting things. Head on over and check it out. Especially if you happen to be fluent in French, or know much about physics and math. And quantum theory.
Nicola Griffith Interview
06/17/2008
A new interview with Nicola Griffith in four parts is now up at Suite101.
Each part contains a link at the end to the following part.
Marianne de Pierres Interview
06/14/2008
I interviewed Australian SF author Marianne de Pierres,
award-nominated author of the awesome Parrish Plessis and and Sentients of Orion series, for Suite101.
Read the interview, in two parts HERE
Periphery Review
06/12/2008
At Pretty-Scary, a great review for Periphery.
Article At Suite101
06/12/2008
My latest article, Writing Speculative Fiction, is now up at Suite101. Please feel free to leave comments or questions.
Haunted Hearths Review
06/12/2008
My story The Oath was recently published in Haunted Hearths (Ed. Catherine Lundoff). A review just went up at Pretty-Scary. I had a lot of fun writing it, because it's a small-town tale and has Gypsies :)
Feed Your Armies With Clonazepam and Zoloft
06/10/2008
This is alarming. A human rights violation without anyone raising an eyebrow.
America's Medicated Army
New Editorial Project
06/04/2008
Still pretty hush-hush-ims, but wickedly cool Australian SF author Marianne de Pierres and I are conspiring on a new speculative anthology. Watch this space...
Mark Deniz Announces Scenes From A Second Storey04/23/2008
And here it is then! Mark has just officially announced the anthology for which he asked me to contribute to. It will be called Scenes From A Second Storey, and there will be both an Australian and International version.
Who'd have thought it. But yes, I think academic life appeals to me a bit, even though I am still adjusting to the whole idea of being graded and having to write exams 14 years after having left school.
It's mid-term break right now. My major is English Literature, but I've also been taking Religious Study papers, simply because the nature of the papers have always been a personal interest of mine. This term I'm doing Religion and Human Biology, which focus on Darwinian Evolution and how we might be evolutionary primed to believe in supernatural agents. The English paper I'm doing is Contemporary Fiction, which features the following prescribed books:
- The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
- The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
- The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
- On Beauty by Zadie Smith
- Eucalyptus by Murray Bail
- The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
- The Queen of Subtleties by Suzannah Dunn
- The Sea - Murray Banville
It's always a good thing to read something you normally wouldn't, and literary fiction is not something I pick up regularly. Some of these books I have really enjoyed, though as a genre writer I cannot be but galled when the authors are considered better writers than, say a Stephen King or a Nicola Griffith. Thus, I chose to write my first essay on a discussion of literary merit, comparing Jonathan Franzen and Stephen King in terms of what their fiction might contribute on a cultural level, and whether such contribution may possibly influence the merit of the work. we'll see how it goes.
New Short Story
Jen and I went to watch Hellboy 2: The Golden Army this morning. It's still kind of weird seeing Luke Goss--even in layers of make-up--after first encountering him as half of the 90's band Bros.
