Monthly Archives: January 2011

ANZLitlovers

A big thanks to Lisa at ANZLitlovers for asking me to contribute to her occasional series on Australian authors. If you haven’t had a look at the site, do so — very interesting site, and wonderful for Australian writing, and … Continue reading

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What’s in a name? Everything…

Book titles are tricky things. Sometimes you come up with a title before the book, so that the title leads you by the nose as it were, showing you where to go. My first novel had a title like that … Continue reading

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Queensland writers in support of the floods

Thanks to Susan Wyndham at the Sydney Morning Herald for sending this. It’s not online so we’re copying and pasting. If you are in Queensland do try to come along to one of these benefits. And if you are elsewhere … Continue reading

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The Sunday Age

This morning this story (link below) appeared in The Sunday Age. We volunteered yesterday down at West End, which has been devastated. I helped out in a commercial building, a film and television editing business, where luckily all the equipment … Continue reading

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Flood update

Very good news for Brisbane: the flood did not reach, or exceed, 1974 flood levels. We are fine here. But please remember those who are not. Many still missing.

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Water water all around…

We are now officially on flood alert. Kangaroo Point is one of the thirty Brisbane suburbs where residents are being urged to be especially vigilant, that is, to evacuate the house if it is in a street especially near the … Continue reading

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