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I have created a
Liar FAQ page on account of I've already gotten the same three questions many many times already and the book isn't even officially out yet. If you have any more questions about the book feel free to ask them
over there. And, yes, I have not answered the third questions in any detail that's because I'm working on a whole post about it.
Some other questions I've gotten lately:
Q: Will you be posting a spoiler thread so that we can talk about Liar without having to be super careful about spoiling people?
A: Only one person has asked for this. If there seems to be a demand of more than one I'll put up a Liar ...
Posted by Justine at 14:42, September 20th, 2009 under Admin, Liar |
I has one.
Back in May I mentioned that I wanted one on account of all the elecronic documents I read. I tried reading on my iPhone but it did not work out: too small and awkward.
After talking to friends and hearing what youse lot think I wound up getting a Sony 505. While it's not perfect and lacks many features I want, ((It does produce mangosteens whenever I want them or set off fireworks. Honestly!)) it's made a huge difference. While flying home to Sydney, I did not have to carry the usual 5 books in my backpack on top of the entire suitcase of books. All I carried was the eReader. My back thanks me. Profusely.
It ...
Posted by Justine at 18:56, August 31st, 2009 under Admin, Praising, Reading |
I'm at Sydney airport, on my way to Melbourne for the Melbourne Writers Festival, and since it took way less time to get here than I thought ((10 mins as opposed to 1 hour. Who knew? Other than Scott.)) I figured I'd test this here new application what Stephen Fry recommended. ((As you all know everything Stephen Fry says is golden unless it is about cricket. He supports the bastion of evil the English cricket team. Ewwww!)) I am blogging from my phone without squinting or yelling. I count that as a big thumbs up for the wordpress app.
I'd also like to give a big thumbs up to my Sony reader 505. It's not perfect---I'd prefer a touchscreen and ...
Posted by Justine at 19:28, August 22nd, 2009 under Admin, Bloggery |
Yes, the new cover means that it is unlikely possible that Liar will may not be available in US and Canadian stores on the announced publication date of 29 September. I don't know what the new pub date is but it will definitely be in October. As soon as I know I'll pass it on. Update: My US publisher says there's still a strong possibility Liar will be available at the end of September as planned. (Note: this is the hardcover first edition of Liar I am talking about. There will not be a North American paperback until next year.)
There is no planned UK edition as UK rights have not sold. The English language editions, both to be ...
Posted by Justine at 0:23, August 9th, 2009 under Admin, Liar |
The response to yesterday's
post has been astonishing. I
am overwhelmed. I received more mail in a single day than I normally do in a month. (I was already behind with my mail.) I'm going to try very hard to get to it all, but it may take some time and I have a novel to finish and leave the country in a couple of days. So bear with me.
Thanks so much for taking this conversation further. It's crucial.
Posted by Justine at 7:11, July 24th, 2009 under Admin, Bloggery, State of the World |
Posted by Justine at 19:20, July 8th, 2009 under Admin, Bloggery |
Posted by Justine at 10:00, June 6th, 2009 under Admin, Bloggery |
Posted by Justine at 11:53, June 4th, 2009 under Admin, Bloggery |
Posted by Justine at 10:41, April 12th, 2009 under 1930s NYC novel, Admin, Liar, Whingeing |
I just finished going through and answering all your letters. *mops brow* Thanks so much for writing to me. I hope my responses arrive okay. But alas there were some bounce backs.
Because the volume of letters has been going up in the last few months, and I'm not getting any faster at answering, ((Unfortunately, writing my books and responding to my publishers has to be the top priorities.)) I've decided I'm going to respond to questions asked on this website first. Especially the questions asked on the
FAQs. That way the answer will be available for everyone and not just the people who email me. That's fairer, right?
Currently I have four FAQs:
There's the
Personal one: Where you ...
Posted by Justine at 0:01, April 6th, 2009 under Admin, Fans & readers |
Posted by Justine at 9:56, March 31st, 2009 under Admin, Cons & Other Gatherings, Liar |
Posted by Justine at 9:42, March 23rd, 2009 under Admin |
I've just added six more categories:
Book tour: this one's obvious. Is for all the posts about book tours. In general,
are they a good idea? And specifically,
reports from on the road.
Book challenges: this one's for
censorship,
book banning, and
challenges, which are sadly common in the land of YA.
Publishing business: this is for the posts specifically about
some aspect of the
publishing business. Such as what an
editorial letter is,
money, and
how to get an agent,
publishing in Australia etc etc.
Titles & names: I noticed that I talk about the
problem of coming up with a title for ...
Posted by Justine at 18:25, January 3rd, 2009 under Admin, Search Terms |
Posted by Justine at 21:35, January 2nd, 2009 under Admin, Bloggery |
Posted by Justine at 14:35, December 6th, 2008 under Admin, Bloggery, Excuses, Food, Frippery, New York City/USA, Sydney/Australia |
All the problems of the past two days appear to have been resolved. Sorry for the inconvenience. Especially to those of you who had your comments eaten.
Thanks for chiming in on last post. I no longer feel like I have lost my mind. Just my website for a couple of days. And, praise Elvis, may it never happen again.
We can now resume normal blog activity.
For those who missed
the post that was only visible to a handful of you for most of the day there's a
sneak preview of my latest published effort.
Thanks to everyone who wrote to share their concern about the absence and/or weirdness of my site today. It's nice to know you care.
Posted by Justine at 18:15, October 30th, 2008 under Admin, Bloggery, Love is Hell |
If you can could you comment? And tell me what browser you're using.
I'm getting lots of reports of posts not showing up and people not being able to comment.
Posted by Justine at 16:45, October 30th, 2008 under Admin |
Posted by Justine at 20:46, October 29th, 2008 under Admin, Bloggery |
Posted by Justine at 14:09, October 29th, 2008 under Admin, Bloggery, Excuses, Fans & readers |
Posted by Justine at 0:15, October 17th, 2008 under Admin |
Posted by Justine at 18:05, August 27th, 2008 under Admin, How To Ditch Your Fairy, Magic or Madness trilogy |
Posted by Justine at 20:50, July 23rd, 2008 under Admin, Bloggery, How To Ditch Your Fairy, Magic or Madness trilogy, Writing goals & milestones |
Posted by Justine at 12:30, July 15th, 2008 under Admin, Bloggery |
Posted by Justine at 14:00, June 19th, 2008 under Admin, Bloggery, Excuses, Liar, Writing goals & milestones |
I am still very behind with all my email. As I have a book due soonish and much much much more work to do on it, I suspect that I will not be getting through that backlog any time soon. For which my apologies! But, you know, my publisher pays me, which helps keep roof over head and rent paid and food in mouth---so they're my priority.
I will continue to keep blogging daily and as much as possible responding to comments here. Cause if all I do is write all day I'll go insane.
Anyway what I'm attempting to say is if I haven't gotten back to you it's not because I don't love you but because I'm working my arse ...
Posted by Justine at 15:40, May 7th, 2008 under Admin, Liar |
The reason for which are posted most indiscreetly on
Scott's blog.
I'd just like to share with you my favourite photo so far:
Kevin Dunn (science guest of honour) plus me and me old man at High Voltage Confusion in Detroit.
Why pirate hats you ask? If I told you I'd have to kill you.
And, yes, if you have any other photos of us we'd love to see 'em.
Thank you so much everyone for all the photos you've pointed us to. We REALLY appreciate it!
Posted by Justine at 0:00, January 23rd, 2008 under Admin, Bloggery, Cons & Other Gatherings, New York City/USA, Travelling |
We are in desperate need of photos of me and Scott together---preferably with other people, but no worries if you just have the two of us. If you have such photos online please include the link in the comments. Or you can send them to me at jlATjustinelarbalestier.com (replace the AT with @). If you could say where and when they were taken that would be extremely helpful.
You'll be doing us both an enormous favour.
Thank you!
Posted by Justine at 15:56, January 22nd, 2008 under Admin |
Some of you have expressed surprise and dismay that I abandoned my
archy and mehitabel policy. They wants to know why and if it's merely a bout of temporary insanity.
The why is easy: I was bored. It was get rid of the no-caps or find a new template. The one takes seconds, the other days. Not a difficult choice.
The no-caps rule lasted quite a long time. To be precise: from 25 May 2005 up till 8 Jan 2008. More than two and a half years. That's AGES.
I don't think the no-caps will return. Been there, done that. By all means continue to eschew them in your comments as homage to the way Things Used to Be. I'm all for ...
Posted by Justine at 11:13, January 14th, 2008 under Admin, Bloggery |
Posted by Justine at 0:03, December 29th, 2007 under Admin, How To Ditch Your Fairy, Praising, Writing process |
Sorry about the silence of the last week. I did something very bizarre: I went on holiday. A real holiday with no laptop and no internet access. Totally off the grid! Let me report that five days of no internet is bliss! I plan to do it more often.
In other news Diana Peterfreund got me addicted to
free rice. Improve your vocab while being virtuous!
Also Maureen Johnson is
stirring revolution on Amazon. Go, Maureen!
Hope your holidays are going as well as mine. Normal blogging will resume soon. Honest.
Posted by Justine at 12:50, December 28th, 2007 under Admin, Bloggery |
So I finally got
Scott's new look blog up and running. What a hassle that was! I always think it will be just an hour or two. Hah! Try several days of hassles. Especially as there was a migration of his site to a new server. Why is it always so hard?
Anyways . . . It's up and I think it looks great. Go take a squiz and tell me what you think. Though if you have any complaints tell Scott, not me!
All praise to
Sadish Balasubramanian who designed the very nifty and flexible
SeaShore template.
I was planning a redesign here to go with the new book but the very thought of going through that again makes ...
Posted by Justine at 16:10, December 16th, 2007 under Admin, Bloggery, Scott's books, Whingeing |
Posted by Justine at 19:25, December 14th, 2007 under Admin, Bloggery, How To Ditch Your Fairy, Manga, New York City/USA, Sydney/Australia, Whingeing, Writing goals & milestones |
Because Eric Luper had the temerity
to suggest that quokkas are not the cutest animals on the planet I have devised a new poll. It goes up exactly a day after the last one which I successfully managed not to break---so you were all wrong. Yay, me!
I like having polls but I definitely need less buggy WordPress compatible software.
The "How To Rewrite" post will go up as soon as I, um, finish, the book what I have to rewrite . . . And the manga/manhwa/graphic novels one not long after that. Promise!
Update: Eric Luper jinxed me into breaking the poll! Oh noes. Oh well, at least the quokkas were ahead. But I had planned to leave it ...
Posted by Justine at 17:32, December 11th, 2007 under Admin, Bloggery, Excuses, Sydney/Australia |
So that I can better get to know what you, the reader, thinks, I have added a poll thingie to the sidebar. ((This was in no way a work avoidance measure. It is serious research!))
The first poll is about winter because I need to know if the total darkness before 5PM and constant cold and the only decent fruit & veg being apples and pumpkin is bumming out anyone other than me. ((I should be clear: it's only Northern hemisphere winters I hate. Sydney winters are lovely.)) Tell me I am not alone!
That it's December and I'm still stuck in the Northern hemisphere fills my soul with despair.
Here have some more quokkas:
Lucky quokkas living far away in sunshine and ...
Posted by Justine at 1:10, December 10th, 2007 under Admin, Bloggery, New York City/USA |
Especially when it's a manuscript intent on
giving me paper cuts or in the form of a card.
There. I've said it: I hate Christmas Cards. Do not send me any.
To be honest I'm pretty much against anything that shows up in my mail box that isn't a cheque or a contract or a magazine I subscribe to. ((I'm okay with parcels though. Especially in their Krug champagne form.)) And really why can't all of these be done electronically? Why do banks charge wire transfer fees? Transferring money from account to account is now one of the simplest processes in the world. Why can't I sign my contracts electronically? Why can't I subscribe to all the magazines I ...
Posted by Justine at 0:01, December 3rd, 2007 under Admin, Ranting, State of the World |
Okay, I'm not quite sure how I did this but I just accidentally deleted some of your comments. So, if you notice a comment you made has gone AWOL that would be me. Sorry! Feel free to re-comment. The technologies they mess with my mind!
Posted by Justine at 8:03, December 2nd, 2007 under Admin |
When I started this blog I was very definite that I wasn't going to blog about politics or religion. I'd seen too many flame wars, too many blogs overrun by indignant trolls. My blog, I decided, was going to be sweetness and light and avoid incendiary topics.
But then the
John Howard regime finally fell and I couldn't contain myself. And, you know, what? I've gotten not a single troll. The discussions generated by my political musings have been thought-provoking, fun, and, most unexpectedly, my traffic is up. Who'd've thunk it? I love youse all!
I now feel free to blog about whatever the hell I want to blog about. If any trolls show up I'll just nuke 'em.
That said, I'm ...
Posted by Justine at 11:28, November 30th, 2007 under Admin, Bloggery, State of the World, Sydney/Australia |
I'm getting reports that my blog is eating some people's comments. Could you let me know if this is happening to you and exactly what it was my blog would not let you post. Preferably by way of the comments. But if that's not working:
jlATjustinelarbalestierDOTcom
To make the address work substitute @ for AT and . for DOT
So far it seems to have something to do with posting HTML and URLS.
Thanks!
And if any wordpress users have had this happen to them and have solutions---fire away! I have nothing blacklisted.
Update: I've been trawling through the spam filters and found quite a few comments which I've now marked as non-spam. Please let me know if my spam filters eat your comments and I ...
Posted by Justine at 10:40, November 10th, 2007 under Admin |
Posted by Justine at 15:31, June 5th, 2007 under Admin, Magic or Madness trilogy |
Posted by Justine at 19:29, September 10th, 2006 under Admin, Bloggery, New York City/USA, Praising, Sydney/Australia |
Sorry for the silence. My excuses are many and covered in mucus and jetlag. Which led to my inadvertantly consigning a number of thoughtful posts to spam purgatory. My apologies. Please comment again. I hope to be non-mucus laden and competent any day now and am much less likely to nuke future comments.
While I lay sweating, coughing, swelling and dripping mucus, the wonderful
Deborah Biancotti was making additons to my website to accommodate the imminent (and in San Francisco, at least, actual) arrival of my second novel,
Magic Lessons the sequel to Magic or Madness. Feast your eyes
here and
here. You can even read the
first two chapters. She's also created a new section ...
Posted by Justine at 18:33, March 10th, 2006 under Admin, Cons & Other Gatherings, Daughters of Earth, Excuses, Magic or Madness trilogy, New York City/USA, Praising, Scott's books, Whingeing |
So apparently it's
de rigeur for the first entry of a brand new blog to feature the cover of the blogger's latest book. I mean, if the blogger in question happens to be a writer with a brand new cover to display to the masses, which this particular blogger does. To wit the cover for the second book in the Magic or Madness trilogy:
Colour me very happy indeed. Aside from anything else, that photo of the tree there? I took it! It's a moreton bay fig. In fact it's the fig tree just past the front gates of Camperdown Cemetery in Sydney, which cemetery makes an appearance in both Magic or Madness and Magic Lessons. The photo on ...
Posted by Justine at 0:09, May 25th, 2005 under Admin, Bloggery, Magic or Madness trilogy |
