Archive for November, 2009

Figuring Things Out: Getting help from those who already know

I emailed a couple of Melbourne agencies this week, chasing work experience. I got two hits back, one from Curtis Brown telling me they don’t take work-experience kids. I’ve canvassed this way before, when I was getting into production in Adelaide, and the pattern was much the same. I expected one response to be straight and [ READ MORE ]

Leaving Home

If you’re reading this, then you figured it out. If you can’t find this page, then this isn’t going to help you. I’ve had all my files moved from the ‘home’ directory to the ‘root’ directory, to get rid of the unsightly and potentially confusing ‘/home’ at the end of my URL. I’ve flown the [ READ MORE ]

Prizes Ain’t Prizes

Sam Cooney has an article about literary awards in the current issue of Voiceworks, and the critical take on such a holy grail inspired me to continue the conversation. I’ve touched on manuscript awards once before, and am regularly vocal, to people who ask, against wholesale acceptance of prizes as a wonderful and highly sought [ READ MORE ]

Dave Eggers is Not a Crusader

Dave Eggers is neither a novelist any longer, nor ‘on a crusade for print journalism …‘ He is publishing an over-priced newspaper. That’s great, and his motives are noble, but he is no more on a crusade for journalism than he is for New Orleans victims, the Lost Boys of Sudan or the many disadvantaged [ READ MORE ]

Resource Sharing

I figure a lot of people could save a lot of time if they weren’t rebuilding the wheel each time they wanted to get something rolling. For example, I have been contracted to build on the existing bookshop relationships for Breakdown Press and the process involved harvesting email and phone contacts of Australian bookshops. It was [ READ MORE ]

Still Not Convinced: YA is awesome!

In comments on my recent post about claims that YA literature is ‘intrinsically of less cultural value than the real books’, Linnet Hunter raised some interesting questions about the perception of YA literature in Australia I was going to reply with a comment, but I was compelled to delve deeper into the subject. Reviewing Space The first [ READ MORE ]

One Magic Square

One Magic Square is a call to action, with the know-how to get started right away. We all have the potential to grow our own food, even if we’re jammed in a terrace house in inner-city anywhere. One Magic Square provides the plot design, food knowledge and seasonal organisation. The one-square-metre idea is not new, [ READ MORE ]

Ad Hoc Service Development, With Song

I met this guy called Warri who wants to start up an arts and culture magazine. So I said, ‘Hey, I know a thing or two about magazines, let’s hang out and geek out on production talk.’ We’re yet to meet up, but we will. Recently Andre, who I posted about a while back, emailed me [ READ MORE ]

Online Career Building For Epic Travelling Win!

I just found these two grouse websites, Brazen Careerist and Location Independent Professionals. I’ve been thinking of mobilising Paine Management for some time, and it’s been great to bump into a bunch of like-minded souls: people who want to be financially (and locationally?) independent. Each of them have great blogs – in fact, Brazen Careerist [ READ MORE ]

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