Defibrillating the web world
Putting together a website takes more time and energy than you imagine. Alongside your allocation of t + e, I recommend a multiple-use...
Talking it up at the annual Writers’ Conference
Writers do more than write. They talk. Non-stop. I recently bore witness to the phenomena at the NZSA annual AGM, hosted this year in...
Bad weeks and good days
You know it's a bad week when the courier loses your corrected page proofs two days from final sign-off, when material for a magazine you...
Deadlines
Deadlines come and go. Some you make, some you bend. (Some bend you.) None of them should matter quite so much as feeling the sun on your...
Anzac Day - and a new book
When I was a child my family marked Anzac Day, 25 April, by climbing to the trig station on the hill behind our house. It was steep and –...
iBooks – Best of 2014
Fair to say I'm a very occasional blogger. There always seems to be a deadline that is more pressing. Maybe that's as it should be: those...
Recommended reading
August is always a busy month, filled with everything but writing. I have a couple of annual teaching commitments and no less than three...
Donnel's Promise
My new title, sequel to Cattra's Legacy, hits the shelves this week. This book seems to have come into being very fast - partly because I...
London Calling
Grubby old London is neither so grubby nor so ill-tempered as I remember. The crowds are worse - but a few blocks back from the Monopoly...
