Today there is a very interesting post on Justine Larbalestier's blog.

The long of the short of it is she is debating when it is too much self-promotion - ie, are you allowed to tell readers - via your blog - that you have been nominated for an award (so go vote)? Are you allowed to post your book covers on your blog? Have links on where to buy?

It was very well written and certainly made me think.

I've been trying to get this blog out there.

Some things I've been doing include:
1) I have a nifty footer on my emails, which whenever I send an email (from any of my four email addresses) it comes up. It looks like this:

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be sure to check my blog......
http://bookworm-megs.blogspot.com/
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Obviously, if ...

The end is in sight!

It's almost the end of the month which means "BLOG EVERY DAY IN APRIL" (aka BEDA) is almost over!

I can't believe I've almost made it! I can see the light in the end of this tunnel.

I just had word that Dan Brown's new novel is out September. As you can all surely remember his novel The Da Vinci Code? It was a best seller for two Christmases - which is a pretty good effort! - has sparked the movie, there are tours, various knock-off books, everything. As an author, if you can create that kind of stir fantastic!

However, I refuse to read the book. I've kept off since it came out, I doubt I'm going to read it now! There are a ...

Twas the launch of the Emerging Writers' Festival program tonight! And can I say how awesome it looks?! It's a little black book about the size of a wallet, and oh the wonders it contains! And it looks so pretty with the silver designs on it! And it feels pretty too :D

My friend and I spent the entire train ride home discussing events and picking what ones we're going to.

Because - and this is ground-breaking news! - we won a FREE PASS TO ALL EVENTS!!! YAY!!!

So basically we're now going to a lot more events that originally thought (or could afford, more to the point).

It's going to be so fantastic. The line up and workshops listed are brilliant, and going to be so helpful. All you emerging writers from Melbourne, ...

Well hello there!

I have a few bits of literary news:
I was invited by Tara Marinello to join a citizen journalist site, Allvoices! I had my first work meeting with Melbourne Writers Festival! It's going to be very full internship trust me! And shhh, top secret information on the authors attending! YAY! Let me just say the festival is going to be better than ever!I am going to the Emerging Writers Festival program launch tomorrow night! Should be a great night.I am currently reading "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon for one of my classes. I'm not that far in yet (don't tell my teacher!) but its....going okay so far. Some of the writing is annoying me, but I feel Haddon's doing a great job of capturing the essence of a child ...

Interview with Julia Lawrinson
Julia's first novel, Obsession, is a dark novel about fifteen year old Charlie.
From her website:
"Charlie is fifteen. She's just moved to a new school and nothing is going right. She's hanging around with a girl she can't stand, her mother is a grief-stricken, wine-sodden mess, and she has no one to talk to except the pages of her diary. Everything seems hopeless. And then she meets Kate.
Kate is sixteen, she's a singer, and she's wonderful. She's everything Charlie isn't, and she makes Charlie's life seem bearable. But when Kate announces she's leaving, Charlie is desperate. Desperate enough to do anything - anything - to get Kate to stay."
I first found this at the library years ago, and quickly brought it myself.
I love Obsession's raw writing and themes: I ...