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Posted by Justine at 0:00, December 31st, 2007 under First Kiss, How To Ditch Your Fairy, Last Day of the Year, Love is Hell, Magic or Madness trilogy, Writing goals & milestones |
Photo by Scott
It was pretty.
Posted by Justine at 0:41, December 30th, 2007 under New York City/USA, Travelling |
Posted by Justine at 11:07, December 18th, 2007 under How To Ditch Your Fairy, Sydney/Australia, Writing goals & milestones |
A passionfruit flower from Jan and John's backyard. These are my favourite flowers in the whole world and not just because they turn into one of the world's great fruits.
Isn't it fabulous?
Photo by John Bern
I just wish I was back home to see it.
Posted by Justine at 17:53, December 15th, 2007 under Praising, Sydney/Australia |
Oh, yes, it is. If only I was home to enjoy it.
Posted by Justine at 4:52, November 24th, 2007 under State of the World, Sydney/Australia |
So today is a big ole USian holiday where at some point you're all supposed to give thanks for all the stuff that's making you thankful. It's called---wait for it---
Thanksgiving. We have no equivalent in Australia. Though we do have, Australia Day, where we commemorate the successful invasion of Australia by white people. As you can imagine the indigenous population consider it to be a day of mourning. ((I'm one of those weird people who thinks there are things to mourn and celebrate about that day. As in, yes, Australia was invaded and taken over from the people who were already living there. And, yes, the early settlers of Australia were also brave and resilient making new lives for ...
Posted by Justine at 10:31, November 22nd, 2007 under Food, New York City/USA, State of the World, Sydney/Australia |
Scott Westerfeld and
David Levithan at the
National Book Awards looking way too pleased with themselves!
Posted by Justine at 0:04, November 18th, 2007 under Cons & Other Gatherings, Young Adult literature |
This is couch:
Is noice couch.
Posted by Justine at 0:10, November 17th, 2007 under Frippery |
Scalzi finally went to the Creation Museum.
His report is now my favourite thing in the whole world. ((Other than daylight saving, mangosteens, sleeping in, peanut butter gelato, lentils,
Jasper Hill wines, the books of Dorothy Dunnett and Angela Carter and Raymond Chandler and Margaret Mahey and a million other geniuses, and, really if I keep this up this will be the longest footnote of all time. In short: I have many favourite things.)) Read it and weep.
Or just look at the pictures.
Posted by Justine at 11:39, November 12th, 2007 under Bloggery/Internetty Stuff |
Posted by Justine at 13:58, October 25th, 2007 under Cons & Other Gatherings, Fans & readers, Magic or Madness trilogy, New York City/USA, Young Adult literature |
Several people have been bewildered by
my enjoyment of
this article about the Frankfurt Book Fair. Don't you get depressed by how it's not about the authors? they ask. How it's about books as product? How there are so many, many, many books?
Nope.
Books are products.
That's not all they are, but it's a pretty bloody important aspect, especially for those of us who are trying to make a living writing (or editing or selling) them.
Publishing is an industry. Part of what it's about---and has always been about---is making money. For most of its history most of that money has been made by people other than writers. ((Most editors and publicists and sales reps and booksellers don't make ...
Posted by Justine at 0:09, October 18th, 2007 under Publishing business |
Scott just hit his
tenth anniversary as a freelance writer. Congratulations, Mr Hardest-Working-Writer-I-Know.
He shares some cool statistics. Here's two:
in that time he's published well over one million words (gulp!),
and it took him eight years---that's right---eight years (!) before he was earning enough from writing under his own name to support himself.
Eight years is a loooong time and yet most writers don't ever earn enough to (comfortably) quit their day job. Scott has done very good indeed. I'm so proud.
Posted by Justine at 20:36, June 4th, 2006 under Praising, Publishing business, Scott's books, Writing life |
