This week I wanted to give you a bit of an insight into different views of the fires. That means lots of links and some quite scary pictures. I’ll finish on a happier note, I promise. First, a perfectly normal … Continue reading
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I’m a little tired. This is the Australian art of understatement. Right now, we’re using that a lot. If an Australian tells you that they were affected by the fires, check (don’t ask them – find out in a more … Continue reading
BVC member Marie Brennan is putting on another hat! Having written the first volume of an epic fantasy trilogy with fellow author (and longtime friend) Alyc Helms, she is delighted to announce today that they have sold the Rook and … Continue reading
“Why is nobody talking about this?” If you have spent any time on social media (and I’m looking at you specifically, Tumblr, but every platform’s guilty of it) you’ve seen some variation of this, typically typed in an incredibly well-meaning, … Continue reading
I try to stay a-political in my blogs, because the Internet world is a big place with a wild, wild west culture. Travel, writing, art, are all pretty safe. But today I’m going off-script a little, sharing tidbits in the … Continue reading
Book View Cafe is delighted to announce that Marie Brennan has joined the fiction-writing team for the relaunch of the game Legend of the Five Rings! Set in the fictional, Japanese-inspired land of Rokugan, L5R has been a fixture of … Continue reading
I’d be willing to bet that most people have had the experience of reading a headline in a news article (or media chyron) only to have the content of the report fail to live up to the headline. This happens … Continue reading
Like all writers, I have a special relationship with words. In my case, I love them. I am fascinated by the way they work (or fail to work), the myriad ways in which they can be misunderstood, misused, even abused … Continue reading