Australian Football League players joined amateur footy players today, and marched in the Melbourne Pride Parade.
This news story has made me ridiculously happy.
In other news, I have finished and submitted the thesis-that-ate-my-life, and have graduated. I possibly know a bit more than I used to about a small number of things. However, having the degree was necessary to keep working in academia, and it is now done.
Apart from working and writing when I have time, I've had other adventures over the past year, like moving into a housing collective. It's a small commune, as communes go, and is buried in suburbia. My fellow communees are all fannish people, lovely and kind and quietly radical. *so much love for all of them* The collective has been the shining light of the past year.
[2012/09/20 8:41 pm]
Hi! It's been far too long, and I have been remiss in posting.
I have snuck away from the really rather pressing demands of my thesis to fix that. My thesis is much less interesting than this.
I'm over on Embrace the Rainbow, taking part in a Book Club discussion on Circle of Change, if you would like to drop past. I talk a bit about how having come out as genderqueer has changed how I and other people engage with Circle of Change, amongst other things.
Laney
[2011/11/21 8:50 pm]
I'm crawling out of the deepest, darkest depths of end-of-academic-year-marking-misery to post about a sale special on Walking to the Stars. Starting at 4pm EST, Monday 21st January, Walking to the Stars will be Eros ebooks' Deal-of-the-Day, on the Eros' front page, with the first ten copies selling for $0.99.
Here's the blurb for Walking to the Stars:
In the third Australis Liminus novel, the war is over and Samuel is on a secret mission in Australia for the rising World Government's space program. He knows he is under-prepared, and expects hardships, challenges and kangaroos. He wishes someone had told him just how large the kangaroos are, and how scary. And about the magic. Nick's farm is cold and bleak in the wild winter, but Samuel is grateful for the shelter, and for the chance to be close to Nick. It's there he meets Nick's friend, Talgerit, who is a budding magician with a taste for adventure, no boundaries and far too much enthusiasm. Beyond the farm is a wasteland, ruined by the war, where small outposts of people live surrounded by echoes of the past. Secrets live in the city, too, and bigger challenges face the three of them than forests and ghosts. All Samuel, Nick and Talgerit have to do is go to the city, find what Samuel's looking for, and get home again. The future is a long way to walk, even with someone you love.
[2011/05/17 7:49 am]
Ten More Ways to Support Authors You Love.
I'm just saying, a couple of these might help with the novel that is currently at 90%. Backrubs, people, backrubs.
[2011/02/08 8:46 pm]
I'm over on the Romance for the Rest of UsTM blog, thinking out loud about inspirational romances and Circle of Change.
[2011/01/09 12:17 pm]
"Unfinished Business" has been re-released as a stand alone story, after previously only having been available as part of the Another Fine Mess anthology: "Unfinished Business; an Undercover Blues story
Ryan and Jason's quiet life together is shaken when a reporter finds them, bringing desperate trouble over an unpaid debt from Jason's past. How far will Jason go to save Ryan? How much hasn't been said?
Everything Ryan thought he and Jason had left behind is back, and they're in more danger than ever before.
( excerpt behind the cutCollapse )
No, it's a typo. Hi Angie anyway.
[2010/12/28 7:08 pm]
I've over on the Torquere livejournal, offering to write Running the Nullarbor and Monsters Past timestamp ficlets on demand.
It's writing as performance art.
[2010/12/22 4:32 pm]
Walking to the Stars is now available, as an e-book, in multiple formats, or or as a paperback, from the Torquere Press website.
Fantastic Planet will have paperbacks imminently (shipping takes just a little bit of time), if you live somewhere vaguely south of the equator. Email Fantastic Planet at sales@fantasticplanet.net.au and they'll arrange your copy of Walking to the Stars.
Now, for a book blurb:
In the third Liminus Australis novel, the war is over and Samuel is on a secret mission in Australia for the rising World Government's space program. He knows he is under-prepared, and expects hardships, challenges and kangaroos. He wishes someone had told him just how large the kangaroos are, and how scary. And about the magic.
Nick's farm is cold and bleak in the wild winter, but Samuel is grateful for the shelter, and for the chance to be close to Nick. It's there he meets Nick's friend, Talgerit, who is a budding magician with a taste for adventure, no boundaries and far too much enthusiasm. Beyond the farm is a wasteland, ruined by the war, where small outposts of people live surrounded by echoes of the past. Secrets live in the city, too, and bigger challenges face the three of them than forests and ghosts.
All Samuel, Nick and Talgerit have to do is go to the city, find what Samuel's looking for, and get home again.
The future is a long way to walk, even with someone you love.
( Excerpt from Walking to the Stars behind the cutCollapse )
[2010/12/17 10:28 am]
I have a hard-working beta reader, Emily, who reads my drafts for me and corrects the worst of my punctation abuse, as well as my appalling entrenched Australianisms. It's a tedious job, without a lot of rewards, so I'm pleased to say, "Thank you, Emily," and post this:
Robots and Racecars recorded this cover of "I'm Not Okay" and dedicated it to her, because she is awesome.
[2010/11/08 9:44 am]
Hi!
I have a couple of releases coming out over the next months, so thought I'd let you know.
Walking to the Stars, the third Australis Liminus novel, is due for release immediately after Christmas.
And "Undercover Blues: Unfinished Business" is going to be released as a stand alone short story, early in 2011. "Unfinished Business" was previously published in the Another Fine Mess collection, but the collection has been unavailable for some time.