Post it

In an effort to raise enough funds to get me to the UK to collect my Short Fiction prize next month, I'm selling some art, see last post.

But if that's out of your budget, what about a post card? Email me (via my profile) if you'd like (me) to send:

a postcard (see pics), printed with an image from my epic graphic poem Escape Behaviours, to anyone, anywhere in the world, with a message of your choice or a secret message from me, for $5

a hand drawn postcard to anyone, anywhere in the world, with or without message, for $10

Click on my profile to email me. 

Why is words

Writer, editor, translator, friend, Lori Tiron-Pandit wants to know "Why is your hero naked throughout Escape Behaviours?" You can read the answer to this and more questions here.

Surf training

I found a great way to avoid the sales.

The sand was full of weeny iron bits (iron filings? - a science lesson gone astray?). They stuck to the magnets on my son's train when he buried it. When I dug it up I thought it was a bizarrely similar yet much older abandoned train with anemones clinging to it (...always the most ludicrous explanation is the most obvious seeming one....).

We found the most beautiful dainty shells in bone white and indigo fading to lilac....

...before our attention was caught by a flash of electric blue (photo credit Mike, currently photographer in residence at Muriwai Surf School - my surf pics were tripe).

The beach seems the most appropriate place to end one year and bring in the next; something about

the tide draws me there at the close of the year. And what a year.

I've had a productive one which saw twenty odd publications, starting with Otoliths through Horizon Review, ending in December with The Bactrian Room. I wrote a screenplay, penned a couple hundred poems, got longlisted for the Kathleen Grattan Award and started Escape Behaviours (the poetry for which I wrote this time last year).

Thank you all who've supported me in myriad ways - I feel grateful, and optimistic for the New Year. Here's to a creative and fulfilling New Year for all of you!

Roman tic

Thanks for your question, Elisabeth. Anyone else got a question about Escape Behaviours?

Expose her

In response to Rachel Fox's question over at my facebook page:

Please excuse the scribblyness of this reply - I've been rather sick today.

If anyone else has any questions I'll do my best to answer them in similar fashion - quick and scribbly - without the vomit.

E scape

I have a project I'd like to share with you. Venturing into unchartered territory, it has involved getting over my facebook loathing and incurring a sore thumb. You can follow it at Escape Behaviours and keep updated at my facebook page here. I aim to add a page a day until completion.