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  • December 19th, 2009
  • Posted in News
  • By Ryan

Unfortunately I deleted all of your comments when I was trying to fix a problem the other day. Comments are very important to me at Socratic Ignorance is Bliss, for obvious reasons. Trouble is, my IT department is not very savvy. I will restore the comments, if I have to glue them back on from [ READ MORE ]

It’s Not All About the Money: Legitimising youth literature

An exciting opportunity has come up for young writers at one of Australia’s most prestigious platforms for the discussion of literature, ABC Radio National’s The Book Show. They are looking for five young bloggers to write about book culture on their new blog. I will certainly be applying, and I encourage other young book lovers [ READ MORE ]

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 ]

Paine Management

It’s about time I kicked this business in the guts. For the last couple of months I have deferred the venture because a whole bunch of fun writing gigs came up: reviews for The Big Issue, The Book Show and Bookseller + Publisher; plus an essay for the Emerging Writers’ Festival, an essay for Vignette [ READ MORE ]

Now Hosting

  • September 10th, 2009
  • Posted in News
  • By Ryan

I got jacked with not being able to muck around with the look of my blog when it was hosted by WordPress. In particular, I wanted to link my Google Reader feed to my blogroll, because I don’t want to have to be arsed updating my blogroll everytime I find a new blog, but I want [ READ MORE ]

Riffing Off a Meeting at the Breakdown Press Bunker

I got inspired about my career after meeting Tom and Lou from Breakdown Press about me possibly managing the sales and distribution of their forthcoming title, How to Make Trouble and Influence People[ READ MORE ]

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