Down Under Wonderings

Social networking media is hyped as one of the best ways to promote yourself and your work today. But think before you tweet, blog and post....

 Angela Slatter (photo by David Pollitt) Angela Slatter is the Australian Queen of short stories with more than 70 published titles ...

Originally I wrote basically to get things out of my head. Sometimes to deal with life, sometimes because an idea just kept nagging at me.  ...

A young writer friend of mine emailed me to bounce ideas.  When I wrote back to her I thought to myself "Hey - that would be good for m...

My name is Sharon and I am addicted to online social networking.  It has been 5 minutes since my last log in on Facebook, 2 minutes since my...

Remember the name Jeyn Roberts as her debut novel 'The Dark Inside' will be hitting shelves in Fall (U.S.) 2011 and with mass intere...

I can't remember when I first got the idea for Mishca, but it was before I read Twilight - not that I have vampires in Mishca. I know it...

A morbid topic I know, but a fact of life.  Until recently Death had not visited my life very often.  Then he came and starting taking famil...

Inspiration - writers draw it from many different ways, included from muses.  I love my muse, in the strictly platonic sense.  She is there,...

Darn this imagination of mine, flitting off in difference directions all the time. Unfortunately, I can be  easily distracted by the multitu...

Your personality type impacts on what you do.  Everyone has a preferred mode of operation that they use.  Over time, with some self reflecti...

There is a craze sweeping the world.  Everyone wants to stay young, particularly woman. The increased sale in skincare products, the decline...

Mishca is a speculative fiction, with a nice dash of mystery and humour, crossing over the realms of the paranormal, sci-fi and fantasy. It...

For aspiring authors starting out in the industry it can be confusing where to start.  A lot of people don't understand the importance o...