Article from The Sydney Morning Herald hereA new book "Liberals And Power", edited by Peter van Onselen, has been published. Three senior Liberal Party politicians, Tony Abbott, Julie Bishop, and Brendan Nelson wrote a chapter each. I use the word "wrote" advisedly. Malcolm Turnbull's photo was on the front cover, bottom right, but he didn't write ( Read more... )

The novelist Lorraine Bartlett wrote about her early days writing Star Trek fanfic in her blog here.

Back in my day, distribution of these stories was small. A big print run was 200 copies. Now millions of people worldwide can peek at badly written fan stories from franchises that are still hot. I can't say I blame the writers/producers for ( Read more... )

I read this on A Word A Day AWADmail, which is a collection of e-mails people have sent in re the choice of words, info about etymology, etc ( Read more... )