Yay!!!! THE FOX BOOK IS DONE!!!!!!!! Yes, all the exclamation marks are warranted, TRUST ME. Six years ago, Mina saved a fox in the bush. As thunder growled and lightning flashed, she thought she saw… something. Now, as graduation draws near and Mina plots her escape from backcountry Jilamatang to big-city Sydney, the town trembles. […]
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Some of my proof readers for A Fox Of Storms And Starlight are both not Australian, and not familiar with the way Australians talk about trees, both singularly and collectively. So I wrote this note to go in the front of the book, and because it amused me, I thought I’d share 😀 A Note
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Yay! The next Inkprint Writers book and the LAST AND FINAL part of From The Ground Up, How To Map, is now up for preorder! The book will be out on August 4, and you can preorder for now in ebook. Print preorders will be coming closer to release – I’ll let you know 🙂
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Some of the stories we had in inventory were really too short to be their own Inklet. We had two options: ignore them, OR COMBINE THEM INTO DOUBLE ISSUES. Obviously the Double Issue option was the one we went with, ha. So, this week, I’d like to welcome to the world the very FIRST double-issue
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…because I can’t put my hands on any pictures of Created Stuff right now but hey! It’s February! Which means it’s time for the blog to resurrect out of the ashes of the holiday season. (Literal ashes here in Australia, oy.) Just going to aim for quick updates for the next little bit while I
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Support firefighters, win books! (Plus a sneaky title/cover reveal from me 😉 ) As most of you will know, the last month+ has seen bushfires raging right around Australia in an unprecedented fire-season event. I am extremely fortunate that I have not been personally impacted, except for the cancellation of some events. My mum was
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It’s no particular secret that it’s been a rough year, and that that’s taken a toll on my writing. I wrote 200k last year, whereas this year I’m currently sitting just under 75k, and the vast majority of that has been since the start of October. So I’ve been feeling kind of fragile, and my
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*deep, contented sigh* Deadlines are over for the year, my health is steadily improving, sleep is actually a thing, and I had a whole weekend with *no homework*. I had a few of those in September, but that’s because I was ignoring the homework, not because there was nothing that needed doing 😉 I mean,
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That’s right, book 16. You guys. I’ve made 16 books. o.O Wow. Anyway, today is release day for How To Create Life, my cute lil handbook for writers (and anyone else interested in comparative anatomy) about why plants and animals look/function the way they do, and what habits result in what appearance, and what climate
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Exciting developments – Inkprint Press now has a reviewers page where you can request a review copy! It’s restricted to ebook only, but it’s a pretty neat way to get a free book in exchange for your opinion on it 😉 There will be a limited selection of books up for grabs each month, so
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