CBCA 2011

Congratulations Cath Crowley
Congratulations Leon Davidson
Congratulations Leanne Hall
Congratulations Sally Rippin
Congratulations Fiona Wood


Cheers to all the notable and shortlisted authors. Champagne all round, and umbrellas, and boots that don't let the rain in.

I'm breathing again—just. When the notables list came up an hour earlier than the shortlist and I didn't know that they were pulling the shortlist from the notables I was a basketcase, full of breathless, butterfly-like cliches—adverbs even. Then I was walking on sunshine.

http://cbca.org.au/awards.htm

three hours

Three hours and counting until the CBC announces the shortlist. Good luck to all my authors and friends.

pronunciation

Julia Gillard just pronounced 'hyperbole' (hi-perbily) as 'hyper-bowl'. I am not sneering. I once thought that's how it was pronounced. Then I heard someone say it. And then 'apologia'. Really? That's how you pronounce it?

watching trainwrecks

How not to do it (meanwhile being effortlessly entertaining).

http://booksandpals.blogspot.com/2011/03/greek-seaman-jacqueline-howett.html