Thank the universeThis was something that all Australian authors were worried about-the proposed changes to copyright laws. Under the proposal, copyright for authors, which was in line with the international standard of existing with the author or their heirs/assigns for 70 years after their death, would be changed. The change would make it so the ( Read more... )

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It's been a busy month for me. March has been taken up with edits--edits on The Bone Cup, final round, book 6 of The Archangel Chronicles; talking with Bottom Drawer Press about my forthcoming release with them, Mythica, for which edits are due at the end of month thereabouts; doing the final round of fixing stuff up on book 9 of The Archangel ( Read more... )

I hope you all had a very happy Christmas and new year. Welcome to 2014! Here's hoping that this is a much better-happier, safer, healthier-year for everyone. I have finished moving house, although I still have one box left to unpack, and I'm still living on very limited internet, which makes me a very sad person. I'm hoping the internet issue will ( Read more... )

I've submitted two stories this month, one to Dreamspinner Press and the other to Noble Romance. Now, while I try not to think about them (this never goes well, I am a talented worrywart!), I turn my attention towards the Freaky Fountain Press Heavenly Bodies anthology ( Read more... )

Once again, I am doing Nano. I find the Nano experience to be particularly helpful as I am, I'm ashamed to admit, a procrastinator. The spirit and camaraderie of Nano and the word count updates on a daily basis do help me stay focused and work. This year, I have come up with a daily routine that I think might actually be the one. That is to say, ( Read more... )

I'm not the only one who feels this, am I? Which is to say that when I'm working on an edit (as I am for meredith_shayne right now), I want to write. Naturally, given that the Room of Wisdom (aka the bathroom) is where I gain great ideas and, natch, where I have just rescued the cat from falling into the toilet again, I have had... an idea. I know, fear me.

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