Tag: Michael Pryor

Recently, I was  cleaning out an old relative’s garage and I came across bundles of ancient magazines. One such stack was devoted to an obscure journal called The Australasian Sophist. Among articles about bush ballads, inland explorers and rough-hewn heroes of the past was a recurring column of surprising...

  At last – The Laws of Magic is now appearing as audiobooks! The fine people at Audible are turning the adventures of Aubrey, George, Caroline and Sophie into quality audio texts. The first to be released is Word of Honour and the books will be read by the very talented...

With plenty of good, flavoursome strawberries available at this time of year, whipping up a batch of strawberry jam is fun thing to do. Not only for personal consumption (ahem) but a jar of hand-made jam is a lovely present in the festive season. I make a number of...

Here’s a sneak peek at something I’m working on right now. Dad put both hands flat on the table in front of him and stared at them. ‘You need to shoot your own dog.’ ‘What? Where did that come from? Is this non sequitur week? ‘I can’t let you...

Last Friday night, after the headiness of five Melbourne Writers’ Festival engagements in four days – plus two celebratory occasions – my wife and I went out to Melbourne restaurant Prix Fixe. Now, Prix Fixe is a fine dining establishment at any time, but when we saw its August...

Stephen King’s Doctor Sleep isn’t a perfect novel. It has inconsistencies, a few plot holes, some ‘What the …?’ moments, but they’re forgiven because King does something surpassingly well, something that drags us into the story and keeps us reading right through. Character. Stephen King does character like few...

The clever people at the Melbourne Writers’ Festival have put together video profiles of some of the participating authors. Here’s mine. It was filmed in the glorious Queen’s Hall at the State Library of Victoria, with a snippet in the magnificent domed reading room.          ...

Here ’tis, my Melbourne Writers’ Festival appearance log. For more details, click on the links. See you there! Who’s Your Doctor? Thu 28th Aug 12.30pm Workshop: World Building Wed 27th Aug 11.15am A Brief History of Robots Tue 26th Aug 10.00am Do You Remember the First Time? Mon 25th...

Get your tips in the right order. Having your ‘Beginner’ tips coming in at Number 5 is an amateur mistake/ Ease your reader in with some baby tips then graduate to tougher stuff and finish with some tips for Advanced Tip Types. Alternatively, keep your good stuff until last...

All right, creative people the world over – it’s time to give up. We, as a species, have reached the pinnacle of inventiveness, the utmost reaches of imagination, the zenith of ingenuity. We can go no further. Writers, artists, musicians, everyone may as well down tools; our work here...