first, i apologise for any downtime today and the muckaround with comments and feeds – subscribers will need to grab the new feed on the right there – i have moved off blogger and finally managed to bodgy up a wordpress installation which fits the overall look of the site. thanks for your patience. permalinks should be consistent with the old site but if anything doesn’t work, please let me know and i will do my best to repair it with the blog equivalent of bush mechanics.
as i mentioned there are a few changes afoot here at jenjen.com.au. From May 1 i will no longer be posting the horoscopes here. don’t panic! the horoscopes will continue to be provided free every monday morning on new matilda. NT folks can still tune in to ABC local radio at about 10:40 every monday to listen to me reading them. new matilda also assures me they are going to have a feed up there next week and that the stars will soon have their own FB page so you can engage in some idle whim-aggregation if you so desire.
while you’re visiting NM you can also read my latest article about the nuclear waste dump they want to put on muckaty station.
i promise i will make good on my promise of more exciting content very soon, but first i am very happy to announce (and here is where the rabbit analogy comes in – drumroll please) that UQP has made an offer on my second novel and i have accepted it. the Piece of Cake will be in the shops sometime in the first half of 2011. Ta-da!
i have quite surprised myself.
This raises another issue, which is that i haven’t got a title. The working title of The Passenger was always just a placeholder for grant applications. I have been perusing bookshelves with titles in mind and writing prospective titles on sticky notes and sticking them on the spines of other books so that i may glance at them occasionally and wonder if they work. I have two main contenders at the moment, both one-worders.
In my perusing i’ve found that most books are now called either “The Girl With The [Decorative Feature]” or “The [Adjective] Song”. Neither of those would really work for the Cake. So I would like to open it up to the floor. Anyone got any good book title ideas? No, I’m not telling you what it’s about, that wouldn’t be half as much fun.
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Oh that’s funny….the girl with the bla bla
Any blues clues at all? just a smidgen to offer you a possible title name???? Please …….one word, and I will put something on the table for you
Beautiful weather in Mel this weekend…..
Mite have to pull out the thongs again…….Isabel
You could call it The [someone]‘s [female relative].
Or [verb, present tense] In [obscure place].
Yes! The latter is also a good way to come up with song titles, viz. holiday in cambodia, sheep farming in the falklands…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKLIxTFNLIk
Something in Sepia?
Dust and something?
Distance and something?
Allegory for a something?
allegory for a dusty distance in sepia, and its aunt
brava signora. I am excited.
Daughter was trying to find a title for her fringe show here on Sunday – she and her brother brainstormed for about an hour and a half, I was glad to be out of it quite frankly. They came out of it with success though.
Very good work with your blog change, too.
fringe show? tell me more!
UQP! Congratulations! Does that mean you have to come to Queensland. We can hang out. I’ll show you all the local dives and seedy spots.
thanks paul, i will certainly take you up on that if i get to qld. editing schedule is all TBC atm.
heh, teh fringe. (Embarrassed myself at an event the other night trying to remember when she last did Fringe and when she did the Comedy Festival.)
The submission is going in next week – she has been in and around these things for a while since doing creative arts at Deakin a few years ago. Crossing everything that this show gets up, and will keep you posted. I have written here and there about her on the blog (but not too parently.)