Alexandre Dumas

 A short dialogue in the style of:

I've got a new fan

Recently I wrote a review of this book, Moonbane, by Al Sarrantonio. It's a dumb book and I didn't like it. Or maybe the book is actually good and I'm the dumb one? You be the judge.

Authors Behaving Badly

This is an account, written for my Writing Creative Non-Fiction class back in May, of my encounter with Gilbert Ohanian (previously covered on this blog) and a discussion of similar reactions from other authors to bad reviews.

Letters to Yourself

Robert Dessaix's 'Letters to an Unknown Friend' was the keynote address at Essaying: The Calibre Prizes, a symposium held at the National Library of Australia. This is my review of a transcript of it, written for my Writing Creative Non-Fiction class back in May.

Uncreative Fiction

This is a thing about creative non-fiction (and why I hate it) that I wrote for my Writing Creative Non-Fiction class back in April.

1000

Oh look, a blog

For a while now I've been putting random stuff up on my website, which made it kind of hard to find, annoyed people who hate my website layout and just didn't really fit with the stated goal of the site. So I've decided to put that stuff here instead. Plus, Blogger has stat tracking and comments and stuff, so I can see that people look at my stuff and feel important. So the posts up to this point are stuff that has already been on my site, but there will be now stuff coming. You know, unless, like 99% of people who start blogs, I forget this exists and stop posting. Whatever.