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I���ve never seen a Wes Anderson movie I didn���t love.

Some of his films I adore.

A few I don���t much like.

But I love them all.

When I was in my early twenties, going to the local video store for a stack of DVDs was a regular thing. Once a week or more. I was a film studies major, so a movie or more a day wasn���t unusual and I could not have ever imagined that I would end up a middle-aged mother who sees a movie maybe every month and often has to break up the viewing over two nig...

How do you look up the meanings of words?

Like most people, for the last decade or so, whenever I’ve wanted to look up a word’s definition, Google is the answer. “Define [word]” and the answer is right there. It even works in reverse, searching for definitions to find the right word you need.

You rarely even need to click through to an online dictionary to get the answer anymore, thanks to Google’s ever evolving interface that holds all those precious knowledge bites without even having ...

Visiting family last Christmas, I was gifted a novel. Not as a Christmas gift, but just as a book casually plucked off my sister’s shelf. “Here, you can have this. I read it, it was ok. You might like it.”

Liked it.

LOVED it.

Just goes to show that some books will hit with some readers, others will be ok. Others will be so incredible, so profoundly perfect that said reader wonders how they could even exist without this book in ...

Have you ever felt like something in the world is served up, just for you?

By pure chance and what felt like a gift from the universe, in December 2023,��I was visiting Brisbane (Australia) at the same time as the Queensland���s Gallery of Modern Art opened a special exhibition about fairy tales.

The exhibition was a showcase of all manner of art, from high tech augmented reality installations, to historical oil paintings, abstract sculptures, priceless curios such as paper cutouts made...

It’s been three years since social media and I sat down to have a serious talk.

What I’ve learned since then is that social media is difficult to manage. For me at least.

I officially say that I don’t use social media, but that’s not entirely true in a black and white sense. Here’s what is true, albeit paradoxical, about the way I use social media and my thoughts and feelings about the whole social app landscape.

I used to be addicted to socials. Twitter and Facebook mostly, later Insta...

Segment. Divide. Separate. Brand.

In the fifteen years I���ve been in the writing and publishing world, this has been the advice.

For we writers who write more than one style of work, this meant different names for different genres (pen names, name variations, etc), different accounts, different email lists, and so on.

It���s a lot of work.

The idea behind it is sound, from an algorithmic marketing perspective. All of this differentiation is meant to make it easier for readers to tel...

Big News! I have launched an exciting new platform for authors this week. Three Pillar Authors. Three Pillar Authors takes everything that I used to have on this site under For Writers, and brings it together with a new twist and intention. It’s more than just “writing advice,” it’s a philosophy for living the writer’s
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This is a year we’re not going to miss. All the chaos that 2020 brought to the world isn’t going to magically disappear at the stroke of midnight on January 1, 2021, but there’s always a powerful symbolism that comes with the turning of the calendar. It’s a new beginning, a fresh blank page for
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I wear a lot of hats. Actually, I usually only wear two hats a white Nike cap in summer and a grey beanie I made myself in winter. But thats really not what Im talking about here. Lets try a different metaphor. My work has three different arms. Speculative Fiction Non-Fiction for Writers Non-Fiction
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Here in Perth, we’re in endless hot and humid days with long nights of the same. But just today, there’s a certain… I wouldn’t go so far as to say “chill” on the breeze this morning, but I’m taking it as a sign that the seasons are shifting. I can’t wait to complain about winter!
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