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Day: June 11, 2013

Mermaid’s Hook into your ear

Mermaid’s Hook into your ear

Mermaid’s Hook is now live at Podcastle! Woohoo!

A magnificent introduction by Ann Leckie, a dreamy reading by Julia Rios plus some lovely end notes by Dave Thompson. Kinda funny, but I think I needed to hear my own words today (even if loving and caring can be a painful thing).

It’s rated R, for disturbing imagery. I hadn’t expected an R rating!  I feel mildly chuffed – also a bit weird, ’cause I can easily imagine studying a story like this in primary school! Thanks Leslie, thanks AME. I’m sure studying marine biology from a young age helped me write this story.

I hope you enjoy it. Thanks for bringing it to the world of audio, PodCastle.

#SFWApro

If this image puzzles you, you might find my post about writing this story useful

On Reconciliation

On Reconciliation

Since coming to America from Australia I’ve really missed an active reconciliation culture. There are many awesome activist things that happen here, but reconciliation is something that it’s important to me. It’s like breathing, it’s a fundamental part of the country that is inside me and the land I belong to. Sometimes it’s hard to talk about, fundamental things are like that. I end up having these long, complex conversations that are probably mystifying at the other end.  There’s still a part of me that feels empty when a meeting starts and there’s no acknowledgement of country, no respect paid to traditional custodians, the history and cost that gave us the opportunity to meet.

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