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Sweat Shake Palpitate
My band, Wasted Monday, has released our first album, Sweat Shake Palpitate. For once, I’m not spruiking my writing. “It’s been a long and winding road but we’ve recently finished recording our first album; Sweat Shake Palpitate! A lot’s happened along the way; our original drummer left, our replacment French connection had to go back…
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Déjà vu all over again
It feels like it’s been a while since I wrote anything here. I haven’t written much on my other projects either, unfortunately. I’m sure a lot of you out there will identify with my frustration with the continuing pandemic situation. Melbourne went into our first lock down in March 2020, and we’ve just entered another…
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A Storm is Coming
My fourth novel, Singular Focus is coming out tomorrow! It’s so exciting. February first is a an important day for Freya, I would love for you to grab a copy (also check out my attempt at graphic design below). Available in ebook and print, https://books2read.com/u/4DgnXD
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I’m really trying not to expect anything right now…
I tried to write this on New Year’s Day but got distracted by being tired and a bit sore from having a big night. Even now I’m still tired and scatterbrained. When I wrote up this list I saw it’s exactly the same as last year’s. Perhaps it’s not a bad idea to stick to…
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The year that was 2020…
I went back to find my new year’s post from earlier this year and boy, did I have no idea what was coming. Wow. Usually at the end of the year I do a little wrap up post, I cover the goals I set in the beginning of the year and how I’ve gone achieving…
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New Release Announcement
Well. 2020 has been a hectic year in a lot of ways (I refuse to say unprecendented because, far out, that word gets used a lot). With all the time stuck inside I’m excited to announce I’m ready to release my new book baby, an urban fantasy/romance, Singular Focus. “When Freya loses her right eye…
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Let’s talk about why that isn’t a compliment…
Yesterday I attended an end of year picnic with some people from the Life Models’ Society. A person approached me: Them: You look like you’ve lost weight. Me: [laughing] I really haven’t. Them: Then why do you look like you have?Me: [awkwardly ignores the comment and goes back to my previous conversation] Let’s break down…
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NaNo-Success
Well, November felt like it took several years, but I’vecome out the other side with another NaNoWriMo successfully under my belt. Woohoo! For this year’s project I rewrote a story I started in 2014. I had done a full manuscript, 78k words with rewrites, but I didn’t like it; it was in several different points…
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NaNoWriMo 2020
This year will be the ninth time I am attempting NaNoWriMo or National Novel Writing Month. My first time was in 2012 and I have won, reached my goal of 50,000 words, every year since then. I work best with external encouragement and deadlines, and while NaNoWriMo is an (almost) entirely self motivated endeavour it…
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Share-house Woes
I haven’t written here for a while, what with work, the pandemic, and everything else, I’m busy but not interesting. Earlier today, going for my government sactioned daily walk to a local coffee shop, I was listening to Josh Earl’s ‘Dont You Know Who I am?’ podcast and they were walking about crappy housemate stories.…
Fleur Blüm 