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“Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity” - Daniel Oppenheimer After my last blog, I thought I should confess that there are some words and phrases that bother me. Don’t get me wrong – I LOVE words and I love playing with them and I believe their creative use can entertain, enrich and educate. I love… Continue reading Mind Your L#ngu@ge – Part 2.
Mind Your L#ngu@ge. I find it interesting that some people consider certain words in the English language to be offensive. If I want to cause offence deliberately (which I generally don’t), I could do so quite easily without using any of these so-called expletives. I say ‘so-called’ because the Oxford English Dictionary defines expletive as:… Continue reading Mind Your L#ngu@ge.
Helen Sedgwick is a multi-genre author of literary fiction, science fiction and crime. She writes about human connection across time and space, juxtaposing science with the supernatural and realism with ghost story. Before she became a writer she worked as a research scientist, first as a physicist (she has a PhD in soft condensed matter… Continue reading Interview with Helen Sedgwick
UPDATE: Sadly, Scififantasynetwork.com has been discontinued, so those links will not work. The reason there has been no post for a while is because I have been doing work experience with the marvellous Luna Press Publishing print science fiction, fantasy and speculative fiction and non-fiction, and who manage http://www.scififantasynetwork.com/ This included: An interview with author… Continue reading The Blog of Blogs
I was delighted to get an exclusive and in-depth interview with Michel Faber for this blog and I am happy to share it with you. Photo by Eva Youren Michel Faber is an award-winning author born in the Netherlands in 1960. His family emigrated to Australia in 1967. Although he began writing in his teens,… Continue reading Interview With Michel Faber
If I say that writing a novel takes a long time, I doubt any of you would be surprised. Some however, if they did the maths, might question just how long the process takes. Of course, the amount of time available in life should be taken into consideration, but it would not be unreasonable to… Continue reading In For the Long Haul
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