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END OF SEASON THREE
“ Episode 30 of The World Below the War in the Heavens podcast brings this season ...”
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Podcast Episode 7
“ Omir: warrior, thinker, a man of both action and reflection, a monarch who never thought ...”
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The Process of Drafting and Re-drafting
“ The first draft is you telling yourself the story. The second draft is you telling the ...”
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Slow-cooked pomegranate lamb
“ 1 x 2-3 kg lamb shoulder, bone in, fat trimmed. 6 cloves garlic, peeled ...”
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Portable Magic
“ I recently had a long, thoughtful chat with Sue Lawson, who runs the delightful 'Portable ...”
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New book - new book trailer!
“ Graveyard Shift in Ghost Town is due for release on 1st of July. Here's a ...”
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Graveyard Shift in Ghost Town Cutting Room Floor 3
“Yes, good stuff gets left out of any final version of a novel - and ...”
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Graveyard Shift in Ghost Town Cutting Room Floor 2
“While revising and editing, some good stuff gets cut and ends up on the cutting ...”
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Graveyard Shift in Ghost Town Teaser 1
“With Graveyard Shift in Ghost Town (the sequel to the Aurealis Award Shortlisted Gap Year ...”
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Gap Year in Ghost Town - The Sequel
“Hey, everyone! We now have a title for Gap Year 2 - 'Graveyard Shift in ...”
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Fantasy and SF Sentences to Savour
“I keep a compendium of sentences that I like both for inspiration and for the ...”
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A Spooky, Hilarious Christmas Book?
“If you want a great holiday read, look no further. Available here. ”
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Some of the references in 'Gap Year in Ghost Town'.
“ Community Sherlock – various incarnations Cards Against Humanity Star Wars 1984 M. Python Pulp Fiction Doctor Who Oscar Wilde LoTR Superman Wizard of Oz Three Musketeers Telestrations The Sweeney Dorothy ...”
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Gap Year in Ghost Town Teaser
“Here's a teaser for my newest book, 'Gap Year in Ghost Town', coming in August 2017 ...”
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Begin End Begin
“A lot of buzz is already out there for this YA anthology from Harper Collins, ...”
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What publishers are looking for. Some of them, anyway.
“  One of the other hats I wear is as co-publisher of Aurealis, Australia's longest-running magazine of ...”
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Ten Steampunk Novels I Haven’t Had a Chance to Write Yet
“    Force 10 from Westminster The Disraeli Identity Mary Shelley, Princess of Power Gilbert and Sullivan and International Domination Have ...”
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Fantasy and Historical Fiction? The Same Thing, Really.
“Bold statement – writing Historical Fiction and writing Fantasy (of certain sorts) are almost identical ...”
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Ask the Professor
“Recently, I was  cleaning out an old relative's garage and I came across bundles of ...”
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From the Work in Progress
“Here's a sneak peek at something I'm working on right now. Dad put both hands flat ...”
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Buy Books and Save the Planet!
“  I took a break from my latest Work In Progress and started thinking about how ...”
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Machine Wars Book Trailer
“And here it is, a teaser for Machine Wars - my 34th book, due April ...”
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1920 Style and Elegance
“Apropos of nothing in particular, here's a selection from the glorious 1920 editions of La ...”
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Fundamental Magic
“As a Fantasy writer, I spend a great deal of time thinking about and playing ...”
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Extraordinaires 2 Book Trailer
“And here it is, the book trailer for 'The Subterranean Stratagem', the second book of ...”
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Extraordinaires 2 Cover
“Here we are: the stunning, atmospheric, brooding, enticing cover for 'The Subterranean Stratagem', the second ...”
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Writers Write: My Favourite Book 32
“Tim Pegler As my childhood memories become foggier and less reliable, there are several book moments ...”
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La Gazette du Bon Ton 1
“I've been promising this for a while. It's one of the things I stumbled across ...”
Writers Write: My Favourite Book 31
“Jenny Blackford   Hidden somewhere in one of the cupboards, I have a small cross-stitched sampler hand-embroidered ...”
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Writers Write: My Favourite Book 30
“Claire Corbett The book that haunted my childhood was Elidor by British writer Alan Garner. An ...”
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Writers Write: My Favourite Book 29
“Jack Heath I have adored so many novels that I regularly change my mind about which ...”
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Extraordinaires 2 is complete
“All done and dusted! 'Extraordinaires 2' is finished and in the hands of the clever ...”
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Writers Write: My Favourite Book 27
“Sean Williams Like a lot of kids who grew up to become writers, I was a ...”
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Supanova Sydney
“  I'll be at Supanova Sydney 15 - 17  June. Drop in to the author table ...”
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Writers Write: My Favourite Book 24
“Marianne de Pierres The Secret Garden will forever be the most important book from my childhood. ...”
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Writers Write: My Favourite Book 23
“Kate Forsyth When I heard year that Diana Wynne Jones had died, I grieved as deeply ...”
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Writers Write: My Favourite Book 22
“Nansi Kunze I think I must have been ten when I began to read Rosemary Sutcliff’s ...”
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Writers Write: My Favourite Book 21
“Pamela Freeman When I looked back on my childhood for the purposes of this post, I ...”
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Writers Write: My Favourite Book 20
“Gabrielle Williams Kate Bush made ‘Wuthering Heights’ required reading for every teenager worth her salt back ...”
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Writers Write: My Favourite Book 19
“Gabrielle Wang In a corner of a grade six classroom at Rathdowne Street State School in ...”
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Comments
“Just to let everyone know that I've implemented a feature to screen out all the ...”
Writers Write: My Favourite Book 18
“Simmone Howell When I think about books and my childhood, I see the cane bedside table ...”
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10 Futures Book Trailer
“And here's the book trailer for '10 Futures', which will be released next month. ”
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Writers Write: My Favourite Book 17
“Sherryl Clark Like many people, a book that I remember clearly was one of the Narnia ...”
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Writers Write: My Favourite Book 16
“Ben Chandler I grew up in a smallish town in the northeast of the USA that ...”
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Writers Write: My Favourite Book 15
“Fiona Wood My book is Five Children and It by E. Nesbit, published in 1902. It’s ...”
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Supanova!
“Some big news! I'll be appearing as a guest at Supanova Pop Culture Expo Melbourne ...”
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Writers Write: My Favourite Book 14
“Michael Gerard Bauer The book I remember most fondly from my childhood would have to be ...”
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Writers Write: My Favourite Book 13
“Foz Meadows Foz made a splash debut in 2010 with 'Solace and Grief', and followed it ...”
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Writers Write: My Favourite Book 12
“Kate Constable Kate is the author of  the much  loved 'The Chanters of Tremaris' series. There is ...”
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Writers Write: My Favourite Book 9
“Ian Irvine Today’s Guest Blogger is Ian Irvine, one of our foremost fantasy writers and the ...”
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2011 Round-up
“As is customary, here's my round-up of professional whatnots in 2011: two books published - Hour ...”
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Writers Write: My Favourite Book 8
“Penni Russon Today's Guest Blogger is Penni Russon, one of this country's most admired writers for ...”
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Writers Write: My Favourite Book 7
“Holly Harper The first time I saw a Goosebumps book, I fell in love. I was eight, ...”
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Writers Write: My Favourite Book 6
“Tristan Bancks I wolfed these Paul Jennings' stories down when I was about nine years-old. Unreal ...”
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Writers Write: My Favourite Book 5
“Scot Gardner Today’s Guest Blogger is Scot Gardner. Scot is a much loved and much lauded ...”
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Writers Write: My Favourite Book 4
“Hazel Edwards Today’s Guest Post has Hazel Edwards remembering a particular, and mysterious, form of narrative ...”
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Michael Pryor interviews Michael Pryor
“Yes, I really do.  ”
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Writers Write: My Favourite Book 1
“Barry Jonsberg This is the first in a series of Guest Posts from some of our ...”
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The Extinction Gambit Book Trailer
“And here's the official book trailer for my next book 'The Extinction Gambit', Book One ...”
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Extinction Gambit Teaser No. 4
“'In the middle of all the mayhem, Kingsley found a split-second to admire her swordplay, ...”
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The Realm of the Ridiculous
“It's time again for me to show my approbation for the clever, insightful and b0undlessly ...”
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Extinction Gambit Teaser No. 3
“'To an exponent of anti-incarceration, a trap was not a trap: it was a challenge.'”
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Snappy Ad
“I love this one.”
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Extinction Gambit Teaser No. 2
“‘Self-defence? All this is for self-defence?’ She shrugged. ‘I got carried away.’”
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Voices on the Range
“Just to let you all know, next week I'm part of the Voices on the ...”
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Why I Write Fantasy
“I write Fantasy because I’m an incurable and unabashed, romantic. I want a world ...”
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Extinction Gambit Teaser
“Yes, I'm going to tease you: 'She touched her lips with a finger. "I do ...”
Title Time
“I'm excited to announce the title of my new book, to be released by the ...”
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I'm Back
“I'm back after a rewarding month in London. I'll be posting some highlights of my ...”
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Name Dropping
“It's been a time and half, really, over the last week or so. First was ...”
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Twitter wishes
“Spotted on Twitter: 'Oh Aubrey Fitzwilliam, how I wish you were real...'”
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Sydney Writers' Festival
“I'm appearing at the Sydney Writers' Festival Schools Days on 17 and 18 May, along ...”
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'Word of Honour' gets a gong!
“I'm extremely chuffed to announce that Word of Honour has been included on the Children's ...”
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Series, series, series
“Look around the bookshops and the libraries and you’ll see series all over the place. ...”
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Writing 'The Laws of Magic'
“ When I began writing The Laws of Magic I wanted to do a number ...”
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Somerset Celebration of Literature
“Sometimes, after looking forward to something you've heard so much about, the reality can be ...”
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The Joy of Steampunk
“I'm reposting some articles I wrote a while ago. This one featured on the Random ...”
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New website, blog!
“Welcome to the new look Michael Pryor website - now with blog! Thanks to the ...”
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Many and various
“After having finished the draft of my top secret Work in Progress, I've been busying ...”
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Time of Trial is out now
“In this book, Aubrey, George and Caroline actually visit Holmland, despite the dangers posed by ...”