Liz Argall

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  • Day 2 at Launch Pad, part one. All kinds of light and a little angular momentum

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    We went out for breakfast as a group at the Turtle Rock Cafe. Food was well flavored and sustaining. The long walks across campus in the sun and variable cafeteria food reminded me of my Clarion experience in San Diego. The Electromagnetic Spectrum, Telescopes and Instruments

  • Reviews news

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    The AV Club has nice things to say about my story in This Is How You Die. “Liz Argall’s “Blunt Force Trauma Delivered By Spouse,” a graphic, painful character study of an Australian farmer in a passionate but abusive relationship, fighting to rebuild her life in spite of her eponymous prediction.” Read the full review

  • Monday, day one of Launch Pad

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    I’m at Launch Pad Astronomy Workshop. It’s a good thing that helps writers use better astronomy in their science fiction. Monday – these are notes, there may be errors or misunderstandings. Astronomy Pre-test. I know I didn’t do very well. I was a little embarrassed, truth be told! We won’t find out our result until…

  • People are awesome, part 4

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    I wrote a story that means a lot to me. It’s coming out on 16 July as part of This is How You Die, Stories of the Inscrutable, Infallible, Inescapable Machine of Death. It’s been getting great reviews, Publisher’s Weekly lists it as one of the best reads of Summer 2013 and Kirkus says “Funny,…

  • People are awesome, part 3… with moving pictures!

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    For this edition of people are awesome I had to make a video blog! Yes! I am doing rambly video blogs again. The video cuts out at 9 minutes because that’s when my iPad says ENOUGH YOU SHALL SPEAK NO MORE. Things mentioned in this blog include: Wiscon Julia Rios Bunson Hoppydew The Big O…

  • People are awesome, part 2

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    I’m in the middle of the Clarion Write-a-thon! Strange but true. People are awesome, part two is inspired by big big love to my latest sponsors, Robert Crais and Julie Andrews (not the singer). Yaaaay! I’ve made a list full of linkage love to all the awesome people on the right hand side of this…

  • People are awesome, part 1

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    The most excellent Maggie McFee coloured a comic we made together many years ago. She is awesome. I need to do a whole blog post about the value and significance of the old ozcomics/pulpfaction crew. The cohorts you start with, years and years on, they’re the people I look to and the people that keep…

  • Sweet new iPad & sweet company too

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    I have an awesome new iPad thanks to my sweetie. Now I can draw drawings at a much higher resolution, run moire sophisticated apps, the keyboard is more sensitive AND I now have a camera in my iPad. On Thursday afternoons I meet with fabulous folks to co-work and talk about all things writing (inspired…

  • Did you say you wanted more photos of my toes??!!??!

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    Sooooo, I was cleaning the house today and I whacked/wrenched my toe against a swivel chair so hard I sprained it. Three days before tryouts, nooooo! I was worried I might have done something truly horrible to it, given how janky it felt, but initial prognosis is sprain and that works all right with me.…

  • The toes of derby

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    Quite some time ago (was it 3 months? I cannot remember if it was before or after the last Rat City tryouts) I got some new rollerskates. I am quite fond of my Crazyskates and I know they’ve been kinder to me than other skates would have been, but it has still been something of…