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Angel tattoo designs are gaining popularity

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Angel tattoos are probably the most common designs for women worldwide. Angel tattoos can be versatile and may be used to create unique designs in a lot of different ways. Angels are thought to be one of the most beautiful heavenly creatures and represent different ideas to different individuals. Professional tattoo studios typically have a number of angel tattoos to pick from and each might possibly be altered into whatever design you'd like. Angels have represented beauty, purity, and spirituality in several different cultures throughout history. The character of a angel has often been employed to symbolize someone's transformation to a higher plane of existence, either physically, mentally, or spiritually. Most angel tattoos have a great amount of detail so the attractive nature associated with the design and style and the intricate aspects of a design can match the loveliness associated with the angels which have been depicted in literature and art. Angel tattoos are easily...
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A comical thing.

Well it has actually happened: MBT has been mentioned in a comic context over at my elves are different and I am as pleased as punch. Thank you, Steve, you are a cunning pundit, sir.
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More Goings Forth (by which I mean a book launch)

And I am back! Thank you for your patience - I shall say more on my time in Sydney-town soon: it was certainly a good as well as stretching time. Met some most excellet souls, fellow creatives seeking their own yet similar path in this great maze of life (hmm... deep) . Today, however, I am wanting to let all Adelaide folks know of the launch party next Tuesday night, where we shall officially send Lamplighter off into the wide blue. Details are as follows: LAMPLIGHTER LAUNCH 3rd June ~ 7 pm for 7:30 start St Peters Library 101 Payneham Road, St Peters RSVP 8334 0200 I would love to meet folks so come along - though I warn you that I am very ordinary (just in case you were expecting to meet some monstrous genius with an amazing pulsating brain ;) See you there... and don't forget to rsvp!
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The Sound of Silence

Please excuse the paucity of posts that is likely to occur over the next week or so, I shall be in Sydney pretending that I am clever and interesting. My schedule will be: Tuesday 20 th May 2008 SECONDARY SCHOOL DAY Riverside Theatre, corner Church & Market Streets, Parramatta . WORKSHOP : RAFFERTYS THEATRE 10.00-11.30 am ~ this will be on World Building - of all things... GENERAL TALK : 1.25-2.00 pm ~ My Life & What lead to Monster Blood Tattoo. Tuesday 20 th May 2008 PANEL DISCUSSION Right Down to the Plumbing: Speculative Fiction and World-building Venue: Blacktown City Max Webber Library, cnr Flushcombe Road and Alpha Street, Blacktown , 6:30-7:30 pm Facilitator: Judith Ridge Speculative and fantasy fiction continues to grow in popularity with readers of all ages. How do writers create engaging and believable worlds? How does character contribute to world-building and what cultural influences are at play? D.M. Cornish, David Kowalski and Stuart Mayne discuss. Wedn...
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Out in public - Sydney Writer's Festival

For those who will be in Sydney-town on the 20 th of this month (that being May and one week away) should know that I will be part of a panel discussing world building (of all things!) from 6:30 in the evening . I shall be getting together with Stuart Mayne , editor of Aurealis magazine , David Kowalski author of The Company of the Dead , and Judith Ridge our erstwhile compare, who is - among other things - the Western Sydney Young People’s Literature Officer. Further details are here . Might see some of you there.
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A word

Today I have a new word for you: tarsoplumbic = lead-footed, ie : one who drives their car (or other conveyance) too fast. This condition has been known to afflict me sometimes, though, thank the Lord, not too often. However, if you go by accident record, then my wife is the better driver.
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The aftermath

Well, here we are in the post Lamplighter release phase of my plans for world domination (did I just say that or think it..?) I thought I might do a little Q&A for folks to mull on. 1600H (not their real name) - over at the Myspace page for MBT asked me via email: "... does the H-c still evolve in your mind? Do places, people, monsters, etc. still change, or are they a bit more fixed since you began writing the books?" And my reply: The whole H-c and the land beyond is very much a growing thing: as you can see above, you yourself have had an effect on it with your query. Another good example would be trying to decide what to call the whole world that the H-c exists within; it was the Alltgird at one point, though I am thinking to make this the name of the entire continent of which the Half-Continent is but a portion, Harth Alle - or maybe more properly, harth alle (a common noun instead, perhaps) - is the current notion I am rolling about my noggin. So many thin...
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