Liz Argall

Category: News update

  • The Pleasure of Analytics

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    Now that I’m posting more regularly I have the heart to check out my website on Google Analytics. The list of search terms lead to my website is always interesting. The prize for best search term is… life detangle blog -hair -pigeon -sun -necklaces Oh internet you are a strange strange creature. I mean really?…

  • Daily Science Fiction has excellent taste

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    Daily Science Fiction, a new digital science fiction magazine, clearly has good taste because they’ve purchased stories from fellow Portlandian writer pals, Mary Robinette Kowal and David Levine. And now they have bought a story from me! Ok, ok, I’m not a Portlandian anymore, I live in Seattle, but I wrote this story while I…

  • Yup, the Clarion Blog Archive has been updated again

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    Something Old and two lots of Something New… Class of ’94 & Class of 2010 https://lizargall.com/2009/03/clarion-blogs/ Now for the borrowed and the blue (and remember Clarion grads are a bit like Brides, it takes at least three years for us to stop talking about it and showing photos to everyone!)

  • PlayWrites BlueMouseMonkey Acting Good Comics

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    I may have wanted to stick a bunch of cool nouns in the subject heading… you have a point there. My website has been a bit fragmented of late, so here’s what I’ve been up to the past few months. PlayWrite – a funky not for profite I do a whole swag of work for.…

  • Posting every day – elsewhere

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    Just after I announced I’d post every day during the write-a-thon I found out that we have a special place on the internet for sponsors. To support the worthy cause I’ll be posting updates on a sponsor and writer only forum. Donate $1 or more to anyone and you will get access. You can sponsor…

  • Out of this world, sprawling and moving

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    Publishing News update Maia Blue is Going Home, one of my favourite short stories has found a place to call its own. She’ll be finding print in the Anywhere But Earth Anthology, by Coeur du Lion in late 2011. Seed Dreams, a short comic magnificently brought to life by Matt Hyunh, will be republished in…

  • PlayWrite WordVoice Showcase 25 May

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    One of the awesome organisations I work with will be strutting its funky stuff on 25 May. Check it out for a lot of fresh, strange, character driven, emotion driven, non-human (characters are animals or created objects) plays and song written by youth at the edge in Portland. ’tis free! ’tis on 25 May at…

  • Ignite Portland, plus a bit of roller derby.

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    Speaking at Ignite Portland was a blast. It was scary and interesting and challenging and filled me with a manic kind of energy. You can see my talk here and you can see the full list of talks here. All these videos are brought to you by the fabulous folks at Blaze Streaming Media who…

  • I didn’t know toes could do that!

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    I spent a lot of last week flat on my back plagued by a fearsome cold (or as we say in Australia, and the UK, a fearsome lurgy). On Saturday, recovering at last I did a bit of work on the laptop with my feet folded under me. I like to sit that way, it…

  • My Campbell Year

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    Ever since I heard of the Campbell Awards I have loved them. The Campbell Award, given every year during WorldCon, recognises new emerging writers. Once you have received your first ok pay cheque for writing sf/f a clock starts to tick and you have two calendar years to prove yourself worthy of nomination. Carving out…