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This past week marked an important milestone for me both personally and as an author. With a lot of help and guidance from Kirsty Ogden from Brisbane Self Publishing Service, Gaetane Burkholter my editor and Jade from Steam Powered Studio my book finally came out in print and I actually sold a copy, and she…
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I’ve read a lot of posts on social media and in videos on YouTube where writers and artists complain about the use of AI and how creative people weren’t consulted about their work being mined by large tech companies to train their large language models. Everyone’s entitled to an opinion of course but I haven’t…
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After many months I’m finally ready to reveal the cover of my first book Seeing Colours. I have shown this on a couple of Facebook groups but this is the final version and I hope the actual book will follow fairly soon. I should give a shoutout to my cover designer Jade at Steam Powered…
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It might seem a little premature to be writing about this but I completed writing Book 3 in the Colours series this week. Premature? At the time of writing this I haven’t actually got my first book Seeing Colours published yet but that’s coming soon . The title of book 3 is Playing Nice but…
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1976 Concert On Sydney Harbour On Saturday, March 27, 1976 I went to a concert at Milson’s point in Sydney with some friends which I’m pretty sure was organized by the Sydney AM radio station 2SM. We caught the train into the city, crossed the bridge and sat on a grassy bank at Milson’s Point…
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There’s a lot of music in Seeing Colours: it’s a story about a teenager wanting to play the guitar and hunting for clues about his famous musician grandfather, so I guess this is to be expected. After I’d finished working on the book it was suggested to me that I compile a playlist of the…
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After my 50/50 post I was asked whether ginger beer is the same as Ginger Ale by a friend who lives overseas. As ginger beer is such a big part of 50/50 I thought it was worth making a separate post to cover this topic in a little depth. The simple answer is no, ginger…
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50/50 is a drink mentioned a couple of times in my first book Seeing Colours. It was a drink the grandmother of a childhood friend of mine used to give us on a hot day. My friend Ian revered this drink but my memories of it are a little vague. Sadly, Ian passed away a…
