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The Fringe Festival is Launched for 2018
I’m excited to announce that tickets for this year’s Melbourne Fringe Festival are now available to purchase! Our show, Fleur and Alexandra are Out of This World will be playing at The Butterfly Club 17, 19-23 September 2018. Tickets are available through The Butterfly Club and the Melbourne Fringe Festival. Get in before 25 August…
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Romance Guest Blog
Big things are happening behind the scenes here at Fleur Blum HQ – especially with regard to the show. But, I managed to find some time to write a guest blog for the Melbourne Romance Writers Guild. Find it here and tell them I sent you.
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It’s a real book!
Exciting news! Print copies of my Choose Your Own Adventure novel, Sophie’s Path, are now available. They are $15.99 (AU), and you can order them from me directly. I haven’t worked out how to distribute them through Amazon yet. In other news, preparations for Fleur and Alexandra are Out of This World are coming along great. Tickets for…
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Follow the Leader
Last week I attended a three-day leadership conference in Sydney, hosted by McKinsey & Company. I was nominated by one of the General Managers at work, and they paid for my travel and accommodation. It was 300+ people from all over Australia and from a variety of companies all coming together to learn how to…
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‘Sophie’s Path’ e-book now available
I’m equal parts excited and nervous to announce I’ve released my first self-published novel, Sophie’s Path: A Choose Your Own Romance Adventure. It’s available at all good e-book stores, including Amazon and iTunes, use this link to access your preferred: https://www.books2read.com/Sophies-Path “Sophie Faithful works as a Sales Rep in a big company. She lives in inner Melbourne and…
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Image Reveal
A short progress update: we are still negotiating with venues and deciding dates, but we have a cover image reveal for you. This image will feature in the Fringe guide, on the website and on all of our promo materials. Fleur and Alexandra are Out of This World will be appearing at the Melbourne Fringe…
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Performance Artist
This is one of the poems from my recent NaPoWriMo experiment. I hope you enjoy it. Performance Artist I’m shy I don’t want to talk to people they seem so much more legitimate than me I’m uncomfortable my legs don’t sit nicely when I cross them because of my massive thighs I ate luke-warm,…
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NaPoWrimo – Winning
This is a short post to say I finished NaPoWriMo with thirty new poems. Congratulations to me and anyone else who decided to do the challenge. Some are pretty good, others are a bit wobbly. I only had to catch up one. I went through the poems I had handwritten to put them onto the…
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Over half way to May!
This is just a brief update post on what’s happening in April. Things have been progressing well in my world. So far I have completed my poem each day (not today but shhh) as part of NaPoWriMo and making good progress on the show for the Melbourne Fringe Festival. Firstly, the poetry. I’ve been writing…
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NaPoWriMo 2018
I did NaPoWriMo two years ago. In the last few months I’ve had loads of compliments for my poetry chapbook, My Body. No Apology, so I’d like to produce some more poems and make a follow up chapbook. Much of the raw material from NaPoWriMo last time was not so great. I guess it’s all…
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