Justine Larbalestier

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Living by the Sea

I caught the ferry to Manly (a beach suburb of Sydney) with my friend Donna today. We walked along beside the ocean, watched waves splash against rocks, up on to the sandy beaches, watched hundreds of people snorkelling, swimming, splashing, playing in the water. But we couldn't help trying to imagine what it would be like if all the water was sucked away and then a ten-metre high wave moving at 70 kph came crashing in on us all. Swimmers gone, snorkellers gone, hotels and bars gone. What happened to the coasts of India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Thailand, the Maldives, Malaysia, Burma, the Seychelles, Kenya, Somalia and Tanzania yesterday is past imagining. So many thousands of ...
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Posted by Justine at 1:01, December 27th, 2004 under Musings, State of the World, Sydney/Australia | Comments Off

Average First Novel Advances

some scary economic realities

Posted by Justine at 0:59, December 24th, 2004 under Best of Blog, Musings, New York City/USA, Publishing business, Sydney/Australia, Writing life | Comments Off

December is the Anaemic Month

It's pouring right now. Buckets and buckets of lovely rain which I hope is filling Warragamba dam all the way up. (Sadly, it's also raining in Brisbane which means no cricket. Sob.) I'm taking a tiny break from writing the second volume of Magic or Madness (tentative title: Magic! Magic! Magic! Oi! Oi! Oi!—my compatriots will understand why that's funny). The deadline of which just got moved forward. Gulp. That's one of the reasons I've not been musing much of late. (A friend of mine is not sure about my use of the term "musing"—she thinks of it as a "loathesome, villain-chin-stroking or fantasy-heroine-in-a-reverie kind of word" which is kind of why I chose the word in the first ...
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Posted by Justine at 0:58, December 10th, 2004 under Magic or Madness trilogy, Musings, Sydney/Australia | Comments Off

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