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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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NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2009 Shortlist.

Delighted to be able to say that MBT 2, Lamplighter has been shortlisted in the 2009 NSW (meaning New South Wales for the uninitiated) Premier's Literary Award's The Ethel Turner Prize for a work of fiction, non-fiction or poetry written for young people of secondary school level. The list of us all goes a little like this: Dianne Bates - Crossing the Line Michelle Cooper - A Brief History of Montmaray D.M Cornish - Monster Blood Tattoo Book Two: Lamplighter Alison Goodman - The Two Pearls of Wisdom Nette Hilton - Sprite Downberry Joanne Horrniman - My Candlelight Novel I feel like a bit of an upstart occupying a list with such luminaries. VERY VERY gratified to be recognised in one the countries big awards, thank you so much to those that put me there. With all this good news I just might explode with joy... if, of course, my stupid character flaws would just stop getting in the way and spoiling the glee... For all the shortlistings for the entire gamut of the NSW...
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That Initial Story... or How Monster-Blood Tattoo came to be.

'Bout time I posted don't we think! E N Reinmuth was pondering... "If memory serves me right it was your interview on either the Today show or Mornings with David and Kim that got me out searching for MBT -Foundling, (technically I saw the gudgeon design before Lamplighter was even published, whoot !) and you said that you had gone to a publisher for a different story, and upon leaving you had dropped your notebook which held details of the world of the HC , and in turn the publisher asked you to write as many words a week, etc etc, leading to Foundling. Might I ask what that initial story was?" Yes you may! It goes a little like this... ' Tis a long story I shall attempt to make short. I trained back in the early 1990's as an illustrator in Adelaide, South Australia. In 1995 I moved to Sydney to pursue illustration work with magazines, newspapers and advertisers. In 1997 I began as a cartoonist at Burgo's Catchphrase working there and as a freelance i...
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Nebula Awards(R) 2009

Very very delighted to tell that Monster-Blood Tattoo 2, Lamplighter has been shortlisted in the Andre Norton Award (the YA section) of the 2009 Nebula Awards . Given that some of my favourite authors have been past recipients ( Frank Herbert , Ursula K. Le Guin , Orson Scott Card ) amongst many of other lights of spec fic ( Philip K. Dick , Arthur C. Clarke , Isaac Asimov , Gene Wolfe , &c &c &c... including last years Andre Norton winner, Ms Rowling herself) I am most utterly astonished, gratified and thrilled. It is my pleasure to also boast that Lamplighter was included on Locus Magazine's 2008 Recommended Reading List (as released last month), so happiness all round. I shall stop showing away (again...) and get back to editing. ( Book 3 better be good, dang it! my fears cry)
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