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It's been a long road, but I just signed a contract with UQP for the publication of my YA historical fiction, A Flash in the Dust!

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I wrote about the one thing I miss from Twitter: Joyce Carol Oates. On @australia.theguardian.com today www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

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If you're a publisher, don't do this: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

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Last year was an agony of waiting on various things, kind of a holding year? And so 2025 has been a flurry of chickens and so much news. A long-winded way to say, something exciting hit my inbox today and I can't wait to share it!

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Forgot to post this! The Daylight Gate is one of my least favourite books forever. Negative stars. Why was William Shakespeare in it.

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Yesterday afternoon I learned from my wonderful supervisor that my PhD has passed with minor revisions. That means I have a list of small textual/structural changes to make in the next 3 months before submitting it back to the thesis chair for final approval.

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Yesterday my 2.5 year old started saying "Stick it to the man" and today he started saying "Thank you, sweetheart". Don't talk to me about Terrible Twos, this is bliss.

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Today is a great day to donate to the Indigenous Literacy Foundation, to read First Nations books, and to amplify Indigenous voices. We could do better than we have. We could be better than we are. #changethedate

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My MC lived in the 1600s and no one is 100% sure where she lived - but there is a farm built over one of the possible sites, and I have just booked a room there for a week in July. All the rooms are named after her family members. Guys I'm gonna get so haunted.

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I was reminded of the dedication I wrote for The Necromancer’s Apprentice today. “For those who hold onto hope in the midst of unbearable darkness. May you always remain gentle and kind.”

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Spent the morning shoveling snow with my kid. We talked about how--because the world is increasingly stupid, unkind, and selfish--we need to work hard at being curious, kind, and helpful to others. Even if we're just starting with shoveling the walk for our community.

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To my nonbinary, agender, genderqueer, and otherwise off the binary friends & siblings: You are loved, you are valued, you are important to our community, you've been here longer than the tyrants, and you will still be here when their bones are dust and the names of their false gods are forgotten.

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Do not Do not Do NOT Announce or even hint on your social media that you’re doing illegal or potentially illegal things. Even if for excellent reasons. You will be a target and make the people you aid targets.

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The stack grows! Next is The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters.

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For the last four years almost every read has been building towards the PhD: Australian, historical, YA, or some combo of the three. But now? Now! I can read whatever I want. Three so far this year (the Schwab is a repeat). Let's see how the pile grows.

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Dear readers, let me take you gently by the hand and say: Not everything in fantasy needs a deep explanation. It’s good to enjoy those things! But a huge part of the genre is the cultivation of wonder and imagination. To promote further pondering and leave a thread of escape when you need it.

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Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather

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Christmas has come early, with the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries in the starring role as Santa! They have awarded me a grant so I can travel next year to research my next book, a witchy historical fantasy. Can't wait to get thoroughly Haunted in the name of research.

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"Our business only works with theft" boohoo then shut down you flogs

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What is the charge?! Eating a meal???? A succulent McDonald’s meal?!?!

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After a week of being up at 5am, my kid slept until 6.45 this morning. I'm a new person. I can see colours again. There is birdsong.

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YES I love this thread

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I have had too many emotions today. Maybe all of them? I need to sleep but what I want to do is drive out to the ocean and fling myself into it a couple of times to clear my head.

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This afternoon I got home from work, blasted LOTR, screwed my courage to the sticking place, and submitted my PhD. I hardly know what I'll do with myself now. (Yes I do, it's write another book - and another - and another)

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Asking another parent if they want to set up a playdate for your respective kids is as nerve-wracking as asking someone on a date. "Hi, my kid likes your kid, can we tolerate each other for an hour on a Saturday afternoon sometime?"

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It's been a hectic couple of days/weeks/months/this whole year really but I've been tapping away at the story that has been haunting me for 6 years now. I'm delighted that said manuscript is on the shortlist for the Blake-Beckett Trust Scholarship! www.asauthors.org.au/news/2024-bl...

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Picking up a few retail shifts over Christmas. Little bit of calm between daycare drop-off and...all of that.

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My PhD currently sits at 99635 words. Staring at it, furious, wondering if I have another 365 words in me. (I do not)

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My weirdest habit: I will slam my way through a TV series and stop at the second last episode. I will stop a book I have loved on the last chapter, unable to pick it up again. And here I am on the last change I need to make on my PhD (maybe?) and I cannot close it off. Baffling brain thing.

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Juliet forgets to mention that she is a breath of fresh air and full of the wisest and kindest words. Truly a balm for your social media feed.

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Being absolutely swarmed by relentless AI ads on Facebook. I hate it. I want no part in it. It is symptomatic of all our worst collective vices and I want to opt out of having it shoved in my face every damn day.

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