London Games Festival + some recommendations
Recommendations for upcoming London Games Festival events, plus some good books, theatre etc
Melbourne, Tasmania, BIG ART
Melbourne: it's great! The Museum of Old and New Art: it's not! Plus: what on earth do people call Launceston?
Reading Short Books
A month of reading short books, and how that went, including some recommendations.
Adelaide Writers' Week / some recommendations
Adelaide Writers' Week: why I love it, and what's gone wrong with it this year
Sneezing / costumes / clues / a nice train
Finally got Covid, booo. Went to Vienna, wooo.
The World Tramdriver Championships
I went to the World Tramdriver Championships, and they were great.
UK paperback / some books I love / more Australia facts
The Husbands is out in paperback in the UK! Also, here are a bunch of books that I took very specific inspiration from.
US Husbands paperback + "the original ending(s)"
The Husbands is out in paperback in the US! Also, an answer to the question I get asked about the "original ending".
Book news, cat news, bird news etc
Some Australian events, and the book "Birds As Individuals"
The Wizard of Oz / how to decorate windows / dinosaurs
L. Frank Baum's 1907 masterpiece: a window-decorating manual.
2024 and reading too many debut novels
I read a different debut novel every week this year, and now I have some Thoughts.
I went to the zoo
A trip to Pairi Daiza, a very big Belgian zoo.
Getting asked for advice
Some actually useful-to-me writing advice that I've received
Husbands, pickles, Canada
Reports on Canada, featuring book festivals and pickles
Canada, clothes and cold snaps
A little talk I gave about clothes at Wordfest in Calgary
The Wild Atlantic Way
A lovely trip around Ireland. What a nice time!
Summer, children's games, a hall of mirrors
An exhibition about children's games that I really enjoyed, and a bathroom design that I really didn't
Summer and games and advice
Adventures in the official Roblox Olympics game, which is not good
What I Did On My Holidays
A nice time that I had in Italy
Birds, husbands, photocopiers
Some thoughts about birds, mostly
My book is out!!, + going on tour and television
Mostly about my book being out in the world, and some weird promotional stuff I got to do because of it
Thoughts on Instagram (bad), Downpour (good), daffodils (unclear)
Opinions on various apps and/or flowers
An infinite supply of husbands
What the Husband Generator is and why I made it
Writing Things Out
Did you know: it is possible to read your own book so often that it makes you feel physically ill to think of looking at it again
Copyedits, photos, tiny bugs
Reading too much about publishing, and also: author photos
Unsubscriptions and Dramatic Situations
A book that lists every dramatic situation! Sounds great!
Books about books, spiders about spiders
A great way to spend your time while waiting for your book to come out is to read books about doomed authors
How to buy a ladybird
Experiments in environmentally friendly gardening
Murder-mysteries, edits and a budgerigar
Some murder mysteries I enjoyed reading, and (possibly?) why
Books, birds, the width of certain continents
Honestly, this one is kind-of "miscellaneous"
Trees, newsletters, netball
Optimistic plans for having a newsletter and also a garden
