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Good bears, bad bears, focus bears, libertarian bears and teddy bears and yet another attempt to organise the chaos. With everything moving so fast these days it's hard to focus when there's always something new and exciting to see. Take bears for example. In the past the only stories you'd hear about bears are maybe …
Dear authors, have you not got enough to do what with researching, writing, editing, and more editing.... Are self-important agencies telling you how you can waste your time unproductively? That you can bag that elusive literary agent in 2024. Well, maybe you're one of the happy few who can talk the brass balls off a …
Congratulations to Lee Murray, Professor Linda Tuhiwai Smith and Tusiata Avia for winning the 2023 Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement in fiction, non-fiction and poetry, respectively. Professor Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Lee Murray, and Tusiata Avia It was an honour to be at the Prime Minister's awards to see these three amazing women get local …
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I posted some time back about Ursula Le Guin, and her acceptance speech at he acceptance of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. So if you haven't seen or heard the quote below, I suggest you hop on over to my post: Ursula K. Le Guin’s dangerous imagination—because it's way …
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Preview Into the Underworld with sections from Lettie, Ruby's captured fairy godmother, and Keera, newly rescued from the Underworld. Lettie whimpered, ignoring the waves of nausea from the iron turning her stomach. The relentless crack of whips and clank of picks and hammers echoed around the enormous cavern were silent and all eyes turned to her...
Journey into the Underworld with Ruby, her sister Pearl, and their kick-ass, bumbling grandparents.