May 29, 2016

Sydney – SWF and Dymocks awesomeness!

Last week I had an epic 36-hour whirlwind trip to Sydney where I was a speaker at Sydney Writers’ Festival and also had a night event at Dymocks devoted to a Medoran Chronicles Q&A. Words quite literally cannot describe just how manic that day-and-a-half was, but I’ll try to paint a picture of all the amazingness that went…

July 06, 2015

Zoo Adventures In Sydney

This is mostly a photo post because I’m writing from my hotel room in Sydney and I’m multitasking between a heap of things at the moment, but I still wanted to touch base and share some pics from my amazing day at Taronga Zoo yesterday with the incredibly talented fantasy author, Traci Harding, who I…

July 03, 2015

ATTENTION SYDNEY READERS AND WRITERS

I’m visiting the beautiful Sydney at the moment and giving a couple of writing workshops and Q&As over the next couple of days – woohoo! I’m pretty sure Monday’s workshop is fully booked out, but they’ve opened up a second time slot for tomorrow because of the demand and there are still a handful of…

February 24, 2014

Sydney: Where My Publishing Dreams Become Reality

So, it looks like I’m off to Sydney in three days for my meet-and-greet with the publishers – how exciting! I feel like my ears are bleeding from all the legal advice I’ve received over the last month, but I’m now finally at a place where I’m comfortably knowledgeable about everything contract-wise… Which is awesome….

February 12, 2014

Road To Publishing: The Next Step

Good news, everyone! It looks like I’m almost ready for the next stage in my publishing journey! I’ve received the legal advice for my contract and I’ve been communicating back and forth (and back and forth… and back and forth… and back and–you get the point…) with the publisher.  And honestly, I’m surprised they still want to sign…