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2011: The Year In Review

I can’t say I’m going to miss 2011, in a lot of ways (for me at least) it’s been an astonishingly crappy year. Between earthquakes, more earthquakes* and a wide variety of the normal stresses of normal life it hasn’t gone to plan at all…  And yet I have to say that it could easily [...]

Andrew Update April 2011

Things have been busy around here, between various writing projects, jiu jitsu, day job, film school and earthquake recovery I exist in a kind of strange quantum twilight zone. There are chickens here too. When I’m not running rough shod over the laws of time and space I’m trying to plan my next move so [...]

I ATE’NT DEAD

So, some of you may be wondering what happened to me.   I got really sick, and I was cleaning up after the earthquake and generally running my life.   Sorry about that.   There is a big family event happening this weekend, but I’ll be back to a regular posting schedule next week.   [...]

Normality Creeps In

I’m not sure how much this post will have to do with writing…maybe a little.   It’s been six days since the quake that wrecked Christchurch. Despite the holes in the road, the shattered buildings and the lost lives, the thing I see more than anything else is a city doing its best to return [...]

New Year’s Resolve: 10 New Year’s Resolutions I Have A Shot At

I did a preemptive list of New Year’s Resolutions a few days ago, but after some thought I wanted to do a real one. I had a very quiet New Year’s Eve, and as such I’m more or less conscious for New Year’s Day, so I don’t really have any excuse for not doing these: [...]

Helping Hands

Hi everyone. I’m enjoying a super hot day here in New Zealand with the help of some apple cider (Mac’s if you’re wondering) and my fiance, who seems determined to do nice things for me. Things aren’t going so well for everyone though. Twitter friend and fellow writing enthusiast Wulfie needs some help. Wulfie is [...]

The Anti – Library

I don’t have any news today, beyond the fact that the cat we have temporarily adopted is cute and fuzzy. Her name is Poppy. Whenever I go to the library I usually have an idea of the sorts of books I’d like to get out. However something I’ve started doing is grabbing books literally at [...]

Yet another review, Horns by Joe Hill

I have reviewed again. I cannot be stopped. This time it was Joe Hill’s excellent novel Horns. I should warn you that the review has some mild spoilers in it, so if you want to remain unspoiled, that i not the review for you. In other news I seem to be writing every day still, [...]

A review of Unholy Ghosts by Stacia Kane and an update

First off, I’ve at long last written another review (and I’ve got another one coming today). You can check out my thoughts on Stacia Kane’s Unholy Ghost here. I’d almost like to say I’ve been being slack, but I’ve actually been working my tail off writing my current work in progress. This one’s actually going [...]

Geist!

Philippa Ballantine is awesome. Take my word for it. She’s a Kiwi author who’s novel, Geist, has just been released. Tomorrow is Geist’s release day, in fact, and I wanted to get in and help her promote it. You might know Philippa from her work podcasting and publishing  Chasing The Bard and Digital Magic. She [...]

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