The best way of reporting the worst news to wake up to.
“Drowned in Moonlight, strangled by her own bra.”
Honour her wishes by including this in her obituaries.#RIPCarrieFisher pic.twitter.com/ZubqGYb9F8— The Rogue Astronaut (@therogue_astro) December 27, 2016
Vale, General.
I just hit 100,000 words on the current WIP tonight. Still got a bit to go, but that’s some kind of milestone, right?
Here’s a snippet of tonight’s inspiration:
The Sick Rose
By William Blake
O Rose thou art sick.
The invisible worm,That flies in the nightIn the howling storm:Has found out thy bedOf crimson joy:And his dark secret loveDoes thy life destroy.
Today I’m writing a scene set inside an upmarket 18th Century London brothel. So I’ve been poring over Google images, trying to determine…
…what kind of floor coverings to have.
Probably carpet.
Full disclosure – I totally nominated Sam, coz she’s lovely and will do a great job. My good friend Donna Hanson has also been nominated as well, and if you’re voting, either of these lovely people will make a great job of it.
Congrats to all the shortlisted authors!
We are delighted to reveal the 2016 ACT Writing and Publishing Awards shortlist. The announcement of the winners will take place at 6pm Thursday 15 December in Canberra Contemporary Art Space at Gorman Arts Centre. More details about the event can be found here.
This year, we are also pleased to welcome the Minister for the Arts and Community Events, Gordon Ramsay, who will be announcing the winners of the 2016 ACT Book of the Year Award. The shortlist for this award was released at the Canberra Writers Festival in August.
Jackie French, illustrated by Peter Bray, Horace the Baker’s Horse
Stephanie Owen Reeder, Lennie the Legend: Solo to Sydney by Pony
Tania McCartney, illustrated by Christina Booth, This is Captain Cook
L.J.M. Owen, Olmec Obituary
Edited by Tansy Rayner Roberts & Tehani Wessely, Cranky Ladies of History
Shane W. Smith, Undad
P.S…
View original post 116 more words
Here’s a new castle-in-the-air goal. Have a newly discovered species named after a character in one of my stories.
Meet Eriovixia Gryffindori, the spider named after the Hogwarts Sorting Hat.
Discovered by Harry Potter geeks (and, as it happens, research scientists) in Western Ghat, a mountain range in south-west India. On a slightly more disturbing note, apparently they’re hanging out to find a species they can name after Aragog. 
Here’s a thing I’ve been waiting to announce for a couple of weeks now…
Noted Writers Festival has just announced its production team and look who’s on it! Oh, wait, that’s me!
I’ll be filling the position of Creative Producer – Professional Development.
I’ve loved working on Conflux so much, I thought I’d try and get involved with some other writing festivals and – Voila! They said yes!
I am a bit excited about this.
Now I have something like 90 artist applications to sift through to help decide who we’re going to feature. Wish me luck (and maybe see you there in March 2017?)
Cheers!
I’ve had this song stuck in my head for the last couple of days.
I love the bluesy guitar, and the lyrics of the chorus are just perfect for channelling one of the POV characters in my current WIP at the moment.
Take me to church
I’ll worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies
I’ll tell you my sins and you can sharpen your knife
Offer me that deathless death
Good God, let me give you my life
This WIP is sitting on about 94,000 words and I’m pretty much committed to getting it done by the end of the year. Wish me luck. I’m almost there.
I have a bunch of fun stuff in the pipeline, but I can’t announce any of it yet! So have some beautiful snippets of my garden in full Canberra spring glory.
And the beauty of close up photography means I don’t have to show you any of the weeds that are rather more abundant than the pretty bits.
Leife Shallcross 