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The Words
Can’t wait for Bradley Cooper’s new movie, The Words, to come out in cinemas! The trailer in itself is gorgeous and the premise is pretty darn intriguing, not to mention the fact that it totally...
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A Writer’s Resources: Books Every Aspiring Writer Should Own
On Writing by Stephen King. Part memoir, part how-to writing guide, On Writing is a must-have for all aspiring authors. Stephen King lays out the bare bones in his writing process as well as the story...
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Nobel and Booker prize winners 2012
There has been a celebration of authors in the past couple of weeks with a few notable prize-winners announced. First up: Chinese writer Mo Yan has won the 2012 Nobel prize for literature. If you...
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2013 Resolution Breakdown – Work on my Writing
In which we break down Resolution Number One: Work on my Writing. This is a really important goal for me which explains why it was the first thing I thought of when I was penning down my resolutions....
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Anne of Green Gables Goes Blonde – a controversy that calls for the breaking...
Front covers featuring characters that don’t match the story within – we’ve all seen that before. There’s been plenty of debate in the writing and publishing world about this, and it seems it’s often a...
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Douglas Adams’s 61st Birthday
Happy 61st Birthday, Douglas Adams! How cute is that Google Doodle to celebrate Douglas Adams’s birthday? Apparently, if you click on the Don’t Panic button guide, cool stuff like Babel Fish and the...
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Perth Writers Festival: A Conversation with Margaret Atwood and China Mieville
A few weeks back, I was lucky enough to be able to attend a Perth Writers Festival event – a Conversation with Margaret Atwood and China Mieville. For those of you who aren’t in the know, Margaret...
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Perth Writers Festival: A Window into Our Past
Tom Holland (on left) and Jared Diamond (in red jacket) Another writer I was really excited about seeing at the Perth Writers Festival was Jared Diamond, author of the best-selling popular science...
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Book review: Margaret Atwood’s The Year of the Flood; plus a lean mean green...
In we go with the greens! I’ve been really missing my salads and this is a fantastic way of getting all your greens in a yummy, refreshing, crunchy summer salad: What I did was to throw in: Peas and...
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Harry Potter – the cure for all hangovers
Harry Potter as a go-to cure for hangovers? What is this, you might say? But it’s true. Ever since the days of terrible college hangovers, I’ve found there is no comfort like Harry Potter when...
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Sweet Valley High Musical/Archie’s Girls – Good Old American High School!
I’m loving the resurgence of good old American High School right now! Check out these old-skool covers!!! When I was a kid, I was a HUGE fan of both the Sweet Valley series and the Archie comics! I ate...
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Review: Kindle Paperwhite
I got a pretty damn awesome Valentine’s Day gift this year – none other than my very own Kindle! I’ve always been kind of intrigued at the idea of an electronic reader – but I’ve held off on actually...
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Book Review: Jitterbug Perfume
When I first came across Jitterbug Perfume, I was intrigued. First of all, the title only is pretty darn interesting. Second, it was one of the entries under an Immortality Reading List. Hail the...
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Book Review: The Kingdoms of Dust
I’ve really enjoyed Amanda Downum‘s Necromancer Chronicles series and each time a new book comes out, I snap it up as soon as I can. The Necromancer Chronicles feature the adventures of Isyllt...
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What’s the Stella Prize – and what is it trying to say about the way female...
This week the first ever Stella Prize was awarded to Carrie Tiffany for her novel Mateship with Birds. Just what is the Stella Prize? Not to be mixed up with the Stella Award, the now-defunct award...
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Gratuitous violent sex scenes in books
I was recently browsing through author Chuck Wendig’s blog, terribleminds (if you haven’t seen it yet, go take a look. He serves up a mix of funny, smart and really good advice to would-be writers)...
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Hunger Games: Catching Fire Posters and First Trailer!
The first glimpse of Hunger Games: Catching Fire is out! I’m loving the new posters which look almost like collectible playing cards. Peeta looks kind of uncomfortable there. And does anyone else think...
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The Great Gatsby: Movie Posters and Trailer
In one of my latest posts, I raved about the gorgeous publicity posters for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. Now I’m excited to blog about the equally beautiful Great Gatsby posters! I’m so glad that...
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More Great Gatsby!
For those of us who can’t get enough of those fantastic 1920s costumes and just can’t wait for the new Baz Luhrmann movie based on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic… Some more amazing posters from the...
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Upcoming book releases!
A list of some of the upcoming book releases I’m pretty excited about: Margaret Atwood has just Tweeted an image of the book cover for her latest book MaddAddam! It’s the follow-up to Oryx and Crake...
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