I realised that it's been almost a month since I posted, I haven't yet caught up on posting (or indeed, editing) photos from the trip to the UK (been back over three weeks now), done a big major post about how completely awesome the trip was, particularly since I got to meet wonderful people like fera_festiva, youmademe_miss, verasteine, fiwen1010, laiglin, etmuse, and such_heights (and oh god, I hope I didn't forget ( Read more... )

• I have a new Wordpress blog for talking about my original fiction: The Ramblings of Lesley Hastings. I'm still playing around with it (and there'll be a new header in about two weeks) but it's up and running and shiny! You can find the RSS feed for it here, or simply go to l_hastings_feed (for LJ) or
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Last year, I posted approximately 28,485 words of fic to my LJ.

Betweeen January 1 and March 31 this year -- that is, during the first quarter of the year -- I posted 26,290 words of fic to my journal. And that's not counting my dark_fest fic, which was written and beta'd over a month ago, and only hasn't been posted because the fest needs to start first ( Read more... )

This just arrived in my inbox, and I'm pretty sure that there are some people on my flist who'd be interested (although obviously those of you attending the Bristol conference won't be able to make it).

The 4th annual conference of The Australasian Association for Literature: Call For Papers

As we prepare to enter the second decade of the 21st ( Read more... )

via Now and Rome:

DESIRING THE TEXT, TOUCHING THE PAST: TOWARDS AN EROTICS OF RECEPTION

A one-day conference co-organized by ( Read more... )

My copy of The Sin Eaters has officially been dispatched by The Book Depository. I am hoping that it arrives on Friday, so it can be my reward for handing two chapters in to my supervisor.

And many thanks and hugs to all those who responded with support to my last post. You all made me feel so much better. :)

If you'd like to be interviewed leave me a comment and I'll ask you five questions. Then you post your answers in your LJ and interview other people and so on and so forth...

Questions from unfolded73 1. Where does your username come from ( Read more... )

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