Category: News update

  • Appearing at Worldcon

    The full programming will be available on the Renovation website in a day or two (This year’s Worldcon is in Reno this year from August 17-21). I’m super excited and grateful to be on a range of panels with some fantastic company. I have a reading of my own on Sunday. I hope you can…

  • People doing amazing things for the Write-a-thon

    So I’ve written a bit about what I’m doing (and even more over on Objects of Love). What I haven’t mentioned here are the amazing things other people are doing. Here are just a few I know about. Some of these people I already know IRL. Some are people I have stumbled across through their…

  • Love letters, love songs and now other songs too!

    Late Breaking News Thanks to a rambly facebook conversation you may also ask me to record one of my existing songs for $20. This is utterly terrifying, but that’s what experimental playing fields like the Write-a-thon are for. Jenny Mason has sponsored the Phone Song. In other news Day 1 has been posted up at…

  • Love Letters – discoveries and new website.

    Discoveries My love letters to inanimate objects project is in its early days, but this is what I have discovered so far (who knows where the stream will take me next, 6 weeks in length I hope for more mutations and new creative challenges). Several works have been completed and have been sent to their…

  • A Study in Flesh and Mind – now up on Daily Science Fiction

    Subscribers have had it in their hands for a week, but my story is now available free for everyone on Daily Science Fiction. A Study in Flesh and Mind. The feedback has been really nice thus far and that has warmed all the cockles in my heart. I may have to revisit the Albury-Wodonga Academy…

  • Same Sex Marriage – everything to gain

    John Scalzi’s reading last night was lovely on multiple levels. Great to hang out with friends, great special surprises, lovely reading and Mr Scalzi is of course adorable, thoughtful, funny and engaging. I particularly enjoyed how he smiled and eyes got all soft and dreamy when mention of his wife crossed his lips. Folks speaking…

  • Wiscon Schedule

    Wiscon is not very far away at all at all! – Wiscon being a mighty feminist science fiction convention held every year in Wisconsin. This will be my first Wiscon and I am quite excited. I will be doing a reading and two panels. 11up – Writer Readings. Cycles of Life. Salacious, sacrificial, silly, sentimental…

  • Mothers Day – in gratitude and in my thoughts

    To all my friends and loved ones who have children in their lives. So many amazing women I know have chosen to have children in the last few years and it is wonderful and amazing. In the buildup to mothers day I have been thinking about how much I am grateful for. Smart, active, brilliant…

  • Norwescon – Further reading and little L’esprit de l’escalier

    Norwescon was lovely, and many of the highlights come from conversations during or because of panels. Fellow speakers and audiences were pretty rawking. During my panels I mentioned further resources and references. Here are just a few resources I mentioned (or wish I had mentioned). Fantastic Fantasy Females with Jean Johnson, Kim Ritchie, J A Pitts…

  • Love Letters to Inanimate Objects – Clarion Writeathon

    Define a love letter for $20 Head on over to Objects of Love to see new work emerge. It’s not too late to sponsor an object! Clarion Writers Workshop Write-a-Thon runs concurrently with the workshop (June 26 to August 6, 2011) and raises money to help the workshop exist and enable scholarships for new writers.…