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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 ]

The Value of Violence and Youth

Another exciting week of admin and damage control draws to a close and I find myself buying a jar of Vegemite to scrape me through the homesickness that rears its head this time of year in the UK – when the sun goes down at 4:30 and you can smell a mixture of other people’s [ READ MORE ]

Join the Academy

I had another meeting with the Format crew last night and got all excited about programming the Academy. I’m still looking for panelists and performers to get involved, so here’s the submission form, and there is a little more information at this Facebook event. (I know I wrote about pulling away from Facebook, but I’ve [ READ MORE ]

Comments

  • 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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