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Katherine Howell – Story is King
Suspense is everything.Katherine Howell was once told that her manuscript lacked suspense. She promptly studied the subject for her Masters degree, and now rereads her thesis when she starts each new book, to remind herself of the techniques of developing suspense in fiction. Katherine was a paramedic in the ambulance service for 15 years. She writes high-adrenaline tales of murder…
Supanova Brisbane
I'm off to Supanova shortly and looking forward to it very much, http://www.supanova.com.au/. For those who don't know about Supanova, it's an Aussie popular culture expo where the guests are either:Stars from various SF and fantasy movies and TV shows. This time they include Val Kilmer (Batman), Christopher Lloyd (Doc from Back to the Future), Colin Morgan (Merlin from the TV…
The Golden Age of Aussie Publishing
I dare say some writers, especially those struggling to get published or republished, will take issue with what I’m about to say, but I’ll say it anyway. The past decade and a half have been the golden age in Australian publishing and, over this time, it’s never been easier to get published – and to succeed as a writer.Let me…
My Ebooks and Audiobooks
People constantly ask me about availability of my ebooks and Audiobooks. EbooksIn Australia, The View from the Mirror Quartet, The Song of the Tears Trilogy and most of my Runcible Jones books are available as ebooks, eg from http://www.angusrobertson.com.au/search/Ian+Irvine/mediatype/EBook/ Note that these are epub or computer/mobile editions. To read them on a Kindle you need to convert them to .mobi format, which you…
Number One
Well, here we go, the very first Ian Irvine blog. What! How, I hear you ask, in 2011, has a reasonably internet savvy novelist come to this, when other writers have been blogging for a decade? More! And I answer. Well, er, I've been busy writing.And you say, Oh, come on, no one's that busy. Besides, you must have been reading blogs…