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Posted by Justine at 12:26, April 30th, 2006 under Bloggery, Sydney/Australia |
Posted by Justine at 21:07, April 28th, 2006 under Bloggery, Sydney/Australia, Young Adult literature |
Posted by Justine at 11:20, April 27th, 2006 under Writing life |
This Thursday Scott and me will be at Galaxy Books signing our latest books. For me that's Magic Lessons (US import) and the paperback of Magic or Madness. For Scott it'll be the Oz edition of
Peeps, plus the UK Uglies and I'm sure all the rest of his extensive oeuvre. I really hope those of you what are in the vicinity of Sydney's CBD can make it.
Details as follows:
Thursday, 27 April, 6PM
Signing at
Galaxy Bookshop
Justine Larbalestier &
Scott Westerfeld
143 York Street
Sydney, New South Wales
Stay tuned to
Scott's blog cause it looks like there might be news of unsurpassed bigness in the next few days.
Meanwhile I continue to write many many many hours every day whipping ...
Posted by Justine at 21:34, April 24th, 2006 under Cons & Other Gatherings, Magic or Madness trilogy, Scott's books, Sydney/Australia |
There's a
fun profile I did up on
Norm Geras's blog (a blog I discovered via
Rjurik. Thank you, Rjurik!). I went to read Norm's words of wisdom on cricket and stayed cause it's most excellent.
I've already been asked what I mean by giving the answer "passion" to the question of what's a person's worst fault as well as their best quality. I'm with W. B. Yeats on "passionate intensity": every day someone somewhere is killed because of someone else's passion. On the other hand every day someone somewhere is creating something beautiful because of that passion.
Marrije enjoys Magic Lessons and has many many questions for the final book in the trilogy, which although smart and ...
Posted by Justine at 8:41, April 22nd, 2006 under Bloggery, Magic or Madness trilogy, Vainglory, Writing goals & milestones |
Posted by Justine at 7:48, April 21st, 2006 under Bloggery, Cricket, Daughters of Earth, Publishing business, Sport |
Posted by Justine at 10:57, April 20th, 2006 under Bloggery, Magic or Madness trilogy, Ranting, Whingeing, Writing goals & milestones, Writing life, Zombies |
Here is where you'll find me at WisCon (and just before):
"A Feminist Utopia in Madison? Global Communities, Science Fiction and Women"
Wednesday 24 May, 2006, 7:30 pm
Wisconsin Historical Society Auditorium, 816 State Street.
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Open to the public, free of charge
Panelists:
Elizabeth Bear,
Karen Joy Fowler,
Nalo Hopkinson, Justine Larbalestier (moderator),
Meghan McCarron
Food in SF&F (Reading SF&F)
Saturday, 1:00-2:15 p.m. Saturday, 1:00-2:15 p.m.
Melissa Scott, Justine Larbalestier, Janet Lafler, Mary Kay Kare, Nora Jemison
Literary History of Women in Science Fiction. (Feminism, Sex, and Gender)
Saturday, 2:30-3:45 p.m. Saturday, 2:30-3:45 p.m.
Pamela Sargent, Justine Larbalestier, Andrea D. Hairston, Janice Marie Bogstad, Brian Attebery
Banned & Challenged Books (Reading SF&F)
Saturday, 9:00-10:15 p.m. Saturday, 9:00-10:15 p.m.
Deborah Stone, Veronica L. Schanoes, Anne Marie Redalen ...
Posted by Justine at 17:26, April 19th, 2006 under Cons & Other Gatherings, Daughters of Earth, Feminism, Food |
Came across
this completely randomly *cough* *cough*. (I mean would I waste time with the likes of google, blogpulse, technorati, ljseek, icerocket or feedster? Please!) It gave me twelve kinds of pleasure.
First up someone getting into the Magic or Madness trilogy enough to want to figure out their Sydney setting---Newtown---and look at maps and photos. How cool is that? And then linking me to the Whitlams, who are an ace Sydney band. Even cooler. (Though I don't know them and I very much doubt whether they know me. So no cahoots at all.)
The Newtown photos Purple Primate links to are fabulous. If I wasn't already home I'd be so homesick. And they're making me regret having shifted ...
Posted by Justine at 15:19, April 18th, 2006 under Bloggery, Praising, Reading, Sydney/Australia |
Heh hem. Tis a bit late given that the con has already started, but here's where you can find me at
Conjure in
Brissie:
Sat 1 pm: Once More With Feeling (Joss Whedon panel)
Chair: Ron Serduik. Justine Larbalestier, Lucy Zinkiewicz, Nicky StricklandSun 4 pm: The 16-year-old Writing Drill Sergeant
Chair: Jenny Blackford. Ian Irvine, Anita Bell, Simon Higgins, Justine Larbalestier
Mon 1 pm: Those were the young years: Juvenilia Readings
Chair: Rob Hoge. Kim Wilkins, Sean Williams, Justine Larbalestier, Scott Westerfeld
I'm most looking forward to the last panel. I have stuff going back to when I was eleven, but unbeknownst to me my lovely mother has a whole folder of my writings going back to when I was seven or so. She ...
Posted by Justine at 8:06, April 15th, 2006 under Cons & Other Gatherings, Reading, Sydney/Australia |
There's
an article in the SMH about writer's block by Catherine Keenan---which draws a lot from Zachary Leader's Writer's Block, which I will superstitiously never read. I mean what if it's contagious? Anyway the article is full of lots of ace anecdotes, but what I liked best about it was the accompanying illustration:
Simon Letch (Click through on the link and you'll learn just how dangerous a life illustrators in Australia lead.)
How cool is that?
Now I must get back to my own writing bouyed by yesterday's excellent news, and last night's fabulous food and champagne (thank you, Jan & John---you are the best!) and with my ears stoppered against any hint of writerly blockage . . .
Posted by Justine at 9:56, April 14th, 2006 under Reading, Viewing, Writing life |
Posted by Justine at 13:53, April 13th, 2006 under Magic or Madness trilogy, Sydney/Australia, Vainglory |
In the few moments that I'm not banging MorM 3 into shape, I've been taking a squiz at the first test in Bangledesh and, wow. Turns out
my sister was right and I---like many other commentators (most notably, our noble captain, Ricky Ponting who said they weren't worthy of test status)---was talking out my arse. And ain't that fabulous?
Matthew Hayden batting (briefly); Shahadat Hossain appealing (unsuccesfully)
Getty Images
Bangladesh are the worst ranked team in the world; Australia are the best (by a considerable margin) and right now Bangladesh are pounding us. Excellent stuff. Not just because it's been an incredibly entertaining test match, but because of what it means for the future, for the raising of the level ...
Posted by Justine at 7:56, April 12th, 2006 under Cricket, Sport |
Look at me! I have worked so hard that I've managed to get myself back on target for my Friday deadline! Yay me! And as a reward
my tyrant husband is letting me have internet access this evening. How kind and good you are, dear sir.
There's been
some lively debate over this way. I confess that I was surprised by the force of
Garth (author and ex agent),
Patrick (editor) and
Sharyn's (editor) response to what I thought was an innocuous post (stupid me). Fortunately
Teresa (editor)
explained the reaction (thank you).
In the end we all agreed: the writing is the most important part, as well as the second most important part, the ...
Posted by Justine at 18:54, April 10th, 2006 under Bloggery, Magic or Madness trilogy, Publishing business |
Posted by Justine at 8:12, April 9th, 2006 under Bloggery, Magic or Madness trilogy, Publishing business |
Philip Stanton, one of the illustrators we met in Bologna, drew me and Scott while I delivered my keynote about "Regional Voice" for
The Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators Before Bologna conference. (Scott was up front with me to do the American and Scottish readings; I don't do accents.)
It's lovely to have this keepsake of the SCBWI conference (thanks, Philip!). It was my first time teaching creative writing (we taught a workshop on writing synopses) and it turns out that I really enjoy it. I had my doubts because I had to teach back when I was an academic and, well, there are things I have loved more in this life (like fourteen-hour ...
Posted by Justine at 11:44, April 8th, 2006 under Cons & Other Gatherings, Travelling |
Posted by Justine at 19:20, April 6th, 2006 under Best of Blog, Bloggery, Writing life |
A HUNDRED demons were slain at the Wanderers as the Australian tail-enders took their side to the verge of victory and then completed the task. ---
The wisdom of Peter Roebuck
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We beat South Africa 3-zip in the greatest form of cricket. I got home just in time to catch the last days of the third test. Wow! It was fabulous, evenly poised throughout. Is there anything better than a test match when either side can win right down to the very last ball? No, there is not.
Some men don't deserve to finish on the losing side. But that is the nature of sport. Indeed, it was the message of this match. Although sport has its heroes and ...
Posted by Justine at 18:32, April 5th, 2006 under Cricket, Sport |
I know you've all seen this already---cause, I mean, who doesn't read
boingboing?---but
I was boingled. My very first! And what a blush-making boingle it was. And what an immediate impact it had. I woke up to my amazon numbers having zoomed from six figures to below 2,000 and my site getting hammered. Bless you,
Cory Doctorow and bless you,
boingboing. Here's my fave thing Cory said about MorM:
Magic or Madness wonderfully mixes a genuinely creepy system of hereditary magic with Australian bush lore, sweet and canny details about New York's East Village, daily life in Australia, fashion and mathematics, sneaking lectures into dialog and description so subtly you never know they're there, only that you're ...
Posted by Justine at 5:44, April 4th, 2006 under Bloggery, Magic or Madness trilogy, Vainglory |
Just back from Bologna (now that was a long journey home via Frankfurt & Singapore---so long our luggage decided to stay iin Frankfurt. Sigh.) Had a wonderful time. Bologna is gorgeous and the food is extraordinary. Truffles! Fresh blood orange juice every morning! I now understand the appeal of fresh mozarella di Bufala . . .
But you all want to know about
the book fair, right? It's totally geared to business. Unlike
Book Expo America where you're overwhelmed by how many books there are---and more particularly how many free books there are---at Bologna I was overwhelmed by how many meetings were going on. Every single stall, no matter how small, was set up with lots of desks, ...
Posted by Justine at 22:36, April 2nd, 2006 under Cons & Other Gatherings, Travelling |
