I remember seeing Kim for the first time at the Aussie Bloggers Conference last year. She came up to the stage shortly after the ice-breaker session had started and we looked at each other and said “It’s you!” simultaneously. I always like those first few seconds of recognition, the putting together and reconciling of internet…
Personal blogging can be hard: any blogger who blogs about their life, be it in reference to parenting, lifestyle, memoir – you name it – could probably tell you that. It is also immensely rewarding, like when you might be able to help someone, or offer inspiration or food for thought. You can be entertaining…
This year I’m an ambassador for the MILO Play Movement. I chose to become involved in this campaign because I’ve been thinking a lot about how the kids play and how perhaps I can assist and facilitate how they go about it. I had an entire conversation the other day with someone where I added a year on…
Any writer who gets themselves written up in a review as being both literary and a genre fiction talent captures my immediate attention. Such was the case last year when I heard of Glen Duncan for the first time and read his novel The Last Werewolf (which I really enjoyed). So I was more than…
There was a moment in The Voice either this week or last where an eliminated male contestant stepped down from the stage to walk off the set. Seal stood up to catch this contestant’s attention just as he was leaving and the microphones picked up a snippet of their conversation. Along with other word of…
I’ve not been feeling ‘blogging-centric’ this week. I wouldn’t call it writers’ block (because, as I’ve said before, I don’t really believe in it), and a ‘block’ normally indicates a fixable problem – there’s something wrong that just needs the right tools to budge. This is something close, but not quite. The best I can…
I was interviewed by Kirsten Krauth over at her excellent blog Wild Colonial Girl about the creative life and how one goes about it with so many responsibilities. Here’s a tiny excerpt: How has your blog influenced your other writing, your novels, your nonfiction, your poetry? KA: It’s made me more open to the value…
For those of you who have been debating whether to attend the Emerging Writers’ Festival or not, in a piece of developing news I will be taking the ‘Blog to Where?’ session during the blogging masterclass. From the website, here’s a little more about the day: Take your blogging to the next level. Aimed at…
Yesterday saw our annual pilgrimage over to Williamstown to one of my oldest girlfriend’s biggest morning tea Cancer Council fundraising extravaganzas. We’d arrived just as my face resumed its normal colour after being beet red, thanks to a ten kilometre run I’d done earlier with another girlfriend in a very respectable time (6o minutes)….
