macdibble.bsky.social
MG & YA NZ writer now living in WA and loving it! She/her
Books:
How to Bee
In the Dark Spaces
The Dog Runner
Across the Risen Sea
The Raven's Song
The Apprentice Witnesser
www.macdibble.com
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I thought it was common knowledge that some aboriginal peoples traded with the islands to the north (now mostly Indonesia). I read a story about a thwarted attempted abduction. One of the worlds greatest empires spread through the Indonesian Islands, Majapahit, obviously they were great seafarers.
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That looks like an amazingly terrifying book. The sheer weight of us, our 90Billion animals, our fossil fuels... is too much. We're no more evolved than the Easter Islanders. Than the foragers we were for 10s of 1000s of years. We deplete an environment and move on. There's no where left to move to.
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The article says agriculture but what it doesn't say is that the US is heavily into feedlot cattle. They grow fodder for feedlot animals, be it cows, pigs, chickens, a lot of it is soy beans for animals and that fodder doesn't have pesticide regulation. Beef plays a huge part in insect loss.
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No one’s taking her calf away and forcing her into milk machine servitude!
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Oh no! It won’t be the same without you! I hope Hells has a vegan pizza.
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Dammit, full circle! My ancestors will turn in their graves and haunt me!
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Congratulations! 👏👏 Looking forward to seeing you again in Wellington at the awards!
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I hesitate to ask which part of your body it's on? It looks like your scalp but it must be something else white and round? You had best confirm it's a bicep or something! 😂
I almost got 'Abyss Abyss I am not yours' from Lukyanenko's Labyrinth novel, then I found out he was an arse. Authors eh?!
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I'm waiting for the day they tell me I'm not Kiwi enough anymore. NZ has changed a lot since I left in my 20s... always planned to go home but I just never made it... keep heading west.
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Look, I'm always telling them to be nicer to Indonesia.
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I always assume the algorithms navigate them away from anyone sensible... I mean how did they get that way?
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Zoot alors!
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The aliens better hurry or there'll be nothing left, we're rapidly destroying the planet.
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Look at the illegal aliens, while my other hand is stripping your rights and freedoms, damn those illegals! They're taking your slice of pizza... the other 9 slices? Oh they belong to the elites, don't look at them.
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They're sacking anyone who's had to haul themselves up through multiple glass ceilings due to colour or gender bias and replacing them with ignorant old unqualified white men. It's worse than brain drain. It's rewarding ignorance. It's getting dangerous. Dictatorship madness incoming.
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Between illegal arrests of low paid workers and the lack of imports thanks to ridiculous tariffs the US should start rioting very soon. They think they’re doing something against other people but they’re doing it to themselves. Madness.
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Nice hair!
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I hate when you go somewhere strange and unsettling like that. The US is heading that way too. Arresting people without warrants, detaining them, abusing them, taking their children. ICE are the gestap0 or m0ssad.
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Not funny to watch him bombing Yemen and helping to destroy Gaza. Like hasn't anybody in the US military heard of a coup already? 🤷🏻♀️
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Yes! A gold bike! Endlessly funny to watch the world suck up to Trump knowing that he's an imbecile who only responds to gifts and praise and apparently Russian women peeing on him. Gonna need smaller handle grips for his teeny unused hands and a wider seat to accommodate his adult diaper.
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Congratulations! So many amazing books coming out of A&U NZ right now!
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So many tricks!
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Now you know they have no real reader to do it Melissa... write your own summer reading list and sell it to the syndicated papers.
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Sounds like the kids program at AWF is amazing! I like the idea of pukapuka adventures and crafty activities. I will not be trying origami bees with a packed hall of kids though if I ever get to do it again. That was sheer bedlam! 😂
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Snowcrash is one of my favourite books! Not so keen on Neal's other books... but that debut novel... wow!
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It's about world rights & zoning and readers don't understand why every book is not on Amazon, thinking Amazon actually make something but they just distribute for a hefty cut like everything else. Amazon also just tell readers: "The Author hasn't made it available!" so we get 😠letters from readers.
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Australia particularly struggles with Audio books. There's Bolinda Audio who hire actors to read, so professional, available internationally but otherwise there can be 1 in UK, another in Nth America, another in AusNZ and the quality can vary wildly. Sometimes it's the author or nobody here.
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You been to the Trump school of stats? Make them up on the fly, say them 3 times and enough idiots will believe them which makes them true?
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Sounds like a nation of misogyny! I’m sure your statistics show the opposite like everywhere else!
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I did NOT cause the wrecks. Navigational instruments and going too damed fast caused the accidents. It’s not my fault they didn’t make the turn. Had they let a woman steer it could have been very different!
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Wrecks. Only 6 trophies. Apparently it’s illegal to keep the old guilder or dubloons or whatever if they wash up on the beach.
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I think maybe if you say China you slide down the algorithm which is sad because both How to Bee and Across the Risen Sea are being translated and released in China by Booky with brand new illustrations throughout the books. I said China again. You may not see this.
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Whooo! That would work here… well except for the waves and rocky reefs. Don’t need another Dutch wreck! Already got about 7 of them! 😂
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Forgot to say this is a 30th anniversary trophy… that’s why it’s so glorious!
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True.
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Australian authors, illustrators and creatives just held an auction and raised Aus$40,000 for 4 charities in Palestine. The void can be used for good but the vileness of haters hating is too much. It's killed social media for me.
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I remember an author when I was at a gig early on have 12 teenagers turn up for her talk about a picture book. She was onstage prepared to talk to 300 primary. So she grabbed her easel and dragged them all into a huddle, found out they were artists and they all talked art for the session. Perfect!
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It really does your head in when you're talking to 600 people one minute and then 4 the next. Being an author downunder is never knowing what you're going to get. So I think it's an opportunity to form a little club-like atmosphere and have some fun with unexpectedly small groups.