This morning I cleverly managed to spill a cup of tea on my beautiful laptop, in the process managing to render half of its keys useless (although thankfully the rest of the machine still seems to be in working order). So I spent the day hogging a computer at Jono’s office while working on some [...]

A very cool online dictionary: wordnik.com
I’ve spent the afternoon finishing off some requested story edits and attemping, er, retrospectively, to meet a few short story deadlines. I’ll endeavour to get some more work done on Spatterbaum and Zitherbother tonight, but this will involve a battle with the usual extraordinary procrastinatory forces of dinner with friends, [...]

Smell of Books (TM) has solved my e-book reader problem. Never again will my books not smell like books!
In writing news, I’m hacking away at Spatterbaum and Zitherbother, which now has a new first chapter and an additional 7k words (oops). It’s coming along nicely, though (if a touch ridiculously).

I once again have the internet at home. This is mostly due to the fact that my lovely Jono managed to completely sever his achilles tendon last week, and is going to be laid up at home. Being a software developer, he kind of needs access to the internet. So I caved. And how here [...]

I randomly woke up at 5:30am today, and couldn’t get back to sleep. So I decided to do a silly thing and get up and be productive. (Much coffee has since been involved)
I slogged through the last fifty pages or so of Ramsey Campbell’s The Darkest Part of the Woods, and have begun reading Fly [...]

It got to 46.4C (116F) here yesterday, which is a record temperature–albeit something I’m not entirely sure we should be celebrating.
Jono came home from work early and whisked me off to a shopping centre to hide in the air-conditioning of a giant Borders (although there is a Borders just up the road from me, but [...]

So I’ve been a bit of a lazy blogger, but in my defence, I’ve been quite the busy Steph. I’m currently going over my proofs for ‘The Ringing Sound of Death on the Water Tank’, which is slated to appear in Australian Dark Fantasy and Horror, Volume 3. This story, which is set on my [...]

Posting purely to note that my current word count is a palindrome.
Also, I had free tickets to see The Wrestler tonight. My stomach is still recovering from a certain scene about twenty minutes in.

My crazy sentences seem polite and restrained in comparison with this:
The new owner of the record for the longest sentence in published literature is Mathias Enard for his 517-page French novel “Zone.” In fact, the entire novel, except for a few pages of flashbacks, is made up of a single 150,000-word sentence.
And all this time [...]

Writing has been hampered somewhat by a trip to Japan and moving house, but I’m getting my teeth (if you’ll pardon the expression) back into the zombie love novel. Even at half past six in the morning.