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Exciting Bookish News

By Susan On February 18, 2013 · 2 Comments

It gives me great pleasure to announce that I have recently taken on the role of Managing Editor of the amazing Australian children’s book review website, Kids’ Book Review.

I have written reviews for Kids’ Book Review for some time and for the past 18 months have been contributing to the site as a Senior Reviewer. I love the philosophy of KBR – helping little imaginations soar! – and am thoroughly delighted to now be taking on this new role as site founder Tania McCartney takes time out to focus on her own busy writing career.

At the beginning of the year, I made a commitment to myself that I would focus my time and energy on the activities and projects that I was passionate about. There was a video posted by a friend on Facebook earlier this year (which I can’t find now, of course), that talked about the importance of following your passions and being true to what you really believe and love, rather than taking the sensible, pragmatic path.

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Write on Wednesday: The Monsters Under the Bed

By Susan On February 15, 2012 · 6 Comments

Prompt
Think back to when you were very young. Try to recall one of your first fears. A shadow on the wall, a ghost in the closet, a person, a scene from a movie or book. Write about that fear. Try to remember the feeling it gave you, what that fear would make [...]

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Write on Wednesday: I Remember…

By Susan On June 22, 2011 · 15 Comments

I missed last week’s Write on Wednesday exercise, but I’m back on board this week. Write on Wednesday is hosted by Gill at Ink Paper Pen. This week, the challenge is to write for five minute using the prompt ‘I remember’.

Co-incidentally, I posted last night at my blog Living [...]

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Achieve your Writing Dreams via Reality TV

By Susan On June 17, 2011 · 22 Comments

Yet another Masterchef contestant bites the dust tonight, disappointed that she won’t be ‘achieving my food dream’ by winning the popular reality TV program. ‘I’ve put three years into this show’ she claimed with tears in her eyes. If only there was some way for people who want to work in the food industry to [...]

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There Must Be Something In The Air

By Susan On June 1, 2011 · 5 Comments

Maybe it is a follow on effect from the Aussie Bloggers Conference, but there seems to be quite a bit of blog launching and blog re-launching in the air.

Monday, the super amazing Kelly re-launched her new look Be a Fun Mum blog only weeks after launching a her [...]

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It’s All a Matter of Timing

By Susan On April 17, 2011 · 3 Comments

I have a terrible sense of timing.

I blame this timing-deficit for many things – my lack of sporting prowess, my inability to tell a joke, my limitations on the dance floor and my uncanny ability to purchase an item just before it becomes available at a bargain price. My timing issues have affected [...]

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When The Words Won’t Come

By Susan On April 15, 2011 · 11 Comments

I’ve had a very frustrating week, writing-wise.

I’ve had a gazillion great ideas for posts here, articles at Suite101 and posts for my new blog Living Upside Down (launching in May). I’ve gone to bed each night with words dancing about in my brain and I’ve wished for a chinograph pencil in [...]

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Mummy Bloggers, Blog Awards and Blogging Success

By Susan On March 31, 2011 · 23 Comments

I’ve been thinking quite a bit about the nature of blogging this week. A discussion on the Aussie Mummy Bloggers forum about what the term ‘Mummy Blogger’ really means, the planning and design of my new blog (more about this soon) and the listing of Home Loan Daily’s ‘Mummy Bloggers [...]

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We Came. We Saw. We Conga-ed

By Susan On March 21, 2011 · 17 Comments

Actually, that’s not entirely true. As anyone who attended the dinner/dance at the conclusion of the Aussie Bloggers Conference last weekend would know, we actually NutBush-ed, but that didn’t have the same kind of poetic ring to it.

If I’m going to be entirely honest, I should also admit that I [...]

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A Noteworthy Obsession

By Susan On March 16, 2011 · 16 Comments

The Aussie Bloggers Conference is almost upon us. Some delegates are already winging their way to Sydney. Others are still stressing over what to wear, what to pack and dealing with nerves about meeting other bloggers face to face.

While others focus on these trivialities, I’m saving my anxiety for the really important [...]