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January 30, 2008
A STORY IN MERIDIAN
I have just received my copies of Meridian with my story Twilight Sky Things and I'm excited.
I've been tardy with letting everyone know that I'll not be able to attend the AWP this year (I was on a panel and I am hoping that I'll be forgiven for this bombshell--drama-at-home has made my attendance impossible). However if you are there do drop by the Meridian table and have a look! There's nothing so amazing as seeing all the wonderful journals and their editors all in the one place. I know registration is sold out but if you are there...
This story first appeared in Best Australian Short Stories 2005 after Frank Moorhouse rang and asked if he could have the story for the anthology. It had been runner-up at the Josephine Ulrick Awards that year (I won the following year with another story). I sent him the story but it was a revised version and he said -- Could he have the older version with which he'd fallen in love (What a buzz that compliment created).
So I was really stoked when Meridian wanted the piece which had gone through another few incarnations.
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January 23, 2008
MOST RECENTLY
A little more than recent I must confess. However better late and too late:
My story at SEGUE. In case the page moves -- it is the Fall 07 issue.
Another at QUICK FICTION:
This is only in print. Order the micro-book online at their website. Kim Chinquee has also got a story in here. A matter of two for the price of one, I think, or something like that.
Also, another pointer to a story of mine in QUARTER AFTER EIGHT. I tried to mark this page for the blog last year but had problems. So here it is afresh.
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January 10, 2008
NEW YEARS RESOLUTIONS
I am planning to read buckets of novels this year. And to take as long as I want to on my own novel. Chilling out, in other words.
Meanwhile I have been reading:
The Indian Clerk by David Leavitt -- Slow beginning. But this is a wonderful book with keenly drawn characters. Leavitt pulls off a recreation of the period--seen from the perspective of the mathematician G.H. Hardy and creates a finely woven drama when Hardy brings a self-taught mathematician, Ramanujan, to England. One might be tempted to think the cool tto almost cold ones of the prose might create a damper on reader attention but I was pulled in slowly into this world, mathematics equations notwithstanding!
On the opposite end ot the scale, there was TC Boyle's Talk Talk. A page turner. This is one author who knows how to plot. I raced through and when I finished, I had the same feeling I get when I've overindulged in sweet treats!
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