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Shut Up About the Exponential Rise of the eBook Market!

or, Have You Ever Actually Seen an eBook? In Their Current Iteration They’re Fucking Shithouse. … A halfway whimsical and mostly sarcastic note I posted on Facebook and Twitter recently solicited some unexpected comments that have lead me to think critically about what some people would say is the most important publishing-industry debate raging at the moment: [ READ MORE ]

Thoughts From Inside Your Arts Bureaucracy

I just got home from a day helping to select successful applicants to the Write in your Face (WIYF) round of grants offered by Australia Council (OzCo) and administered by Express Media (EM). Those links will tell you more about this whole shebang, but I’ll copy/paste the juicy bit for all our Canadian readers: WIYF grants [ READ MORE ]

#EWF11: Typecasting speech

First off: it is impossible to typecast someone entirely accurately, because contradicting character traits and values are inherent in the human condition, as each passing second, each new experience, keeps our minds in a constant state of flux. At least they should, which is an idea I’ll get to by the end of this talk. I [ READ MORE ]

#EWF11: Intro

Last weekend I attended Emerging Writers’ Festival in Melbourne because: it’s an awesome, craft-based festiva bringing readers, writers and everyone in between together; they invited me to talk on a panel; I jump at any chance to revisit Melbourne. The difference between EWF and most other writers’ festivals in Australia is that it’s more like a readers’ [ READ MORE ]

Interview Fail

So, I flat-out failed to publish the rest of my interview with Ronnie Scott over Easter. Frankly: I was indulging in too much pot all weekend, so I pretty much hybernated in my flat and tried to finish reading Power Without Glory, which I also failed at. Power Without Glory is really long, and dense, and [ READ MORE ]

If:book Essay: You’re the Voice

If:book Australia is a think-and-do tank dedicated to promoting ‘new forms of digital literature’ and exploring ‘ways to boost connections between writers and audiences’, which is more exciting than I can fully express. They are associated with the Institute for the Future of the Book in New York, and if:book London, and are based at Queensland Writers’ [ READ MORE ]

Which Enemy Will You Sleep With?

After a decent stint in a large publishing house in London, I find myself washed up on the shores of Australia again, without a job or any real idea of what skills I might possibly have to move me in a direction that approximates something I think is worthwhile. So to avoid actually doing something [ READ MORE ]

In-flight Reading

… Maybe I’m naive, but I was surprised that T C Boyle’s story in this week’s Harper’s was boring. I’ve heard good things about T C Boyle, and about Harper’s. Combine that with a story titled ‘What Separates Us From The Animals’ and I thought I was in for a sure thing. The reason I treat myself to a foreign [ READ MORE ]

The Forum Frenzy

I do hate a lot of things (Disney, marketing, Andrew Wiley etc) but I want to put it out there that this isn’t all I’m about. I got really excited when Tim Hely Hutchinson (CEO of Hachette UK) decided to go with the agency pricing model, Amazon be damned, and was excited again yesterday when [ READ MORE ]

Culture by Committee

I finally got around to reading this, Benjamin Eltham’s Overland article about abolishing Australia Council (OzCo), Australia’s arts funding and advisory body. I’ve been watching Eltham and Marcus Westbury’s cultural policy debate as closely as I ever watch any debate, and it’s especially exciting to see an article in Overland that backs up its critique with [ READ MORE ]

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