Jennifer Fallon's Blog

I have new pets!

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 15:43:00 --0800

I got some new pets today. 200 hundred of them, actually. Yup, I am now the proud owner of a worm farm. Of course, now the problem is going to be naming them all (God knows how I'm going to go about training them to come when they're called). Anyway...

Which sci-fi crew would you best fit in with?

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 16:24:00 --0800

Here's a fun quiz for you. Find out which sci-fi crew you belong to. I scored the Heart of Gold from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Not sure what to make of that. Better go find a towel, I suppose. Bit embarrassing that I only scored 63% on Star...

The Greatest Show in Town

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:24:00 --0800

I love politics. I have close friends who are politicians. Firstborn is the branch secretary of a political party. I think it’s fun, and if you’ve read my books then you know the game of politics is something I love to mess with. I foll...

Thursday's Movie Review - Taken

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 06:43:00 --0800

This week's movie has been out for a couple of weeks but I was a little reluctant to see it, expecting a bit of the same old, same old, but I was pleasantly surprised. It was a bit of a hoot, actually. One of those "shoot 'em up with absolutely ...

The cover of The Chaos Crystal is revealed

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 08:53:00 --0800

Well, here it is... What do you think? Personally, I think it's very pretty. Lovely colours, spectacular landscape. And yes, Coron the Rat is sitting on Lukys's shoulder. (Told you it was all about the rat.. hehehe) The artist has done a brillia...

A great little time waster...

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:30:00 --0800

This is so funny. I found this site, Totally Looks Like, which offers photographic evidence to prove that a number of well-known celebrities (and not so well known - at least to Aussies) were obviously separated at birth from other celebrities. My p...

Rocking the "Contender" look

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 11:01:00 --0800

I have two black eyes. This interesting state of affairs is all the fault of a blown lightglobe. You see, the blown globe was in one of those georgous decorative brass light fittings that hangs on a pulley and adjusts to whatever height you want it...

Another useful dictionary

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 09:24:00 --0800

I'm on a roll here... first it was the publishing dictionary. Now it's the must-have Wookie dictionary, thanks to Matthew Jarpe. And if you think this is funny, check out his comment about his kid going to catholic school:) So... here's your first ...

Back on the air again...

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 09:53:00 --0800

I did the morning radio show again today for 783 ABC Alice Springs. This meant getting at up 4.45 am, and starting work at 5:30 am, which is not a time I'm very familiar with. In fact I was so worried I'd sleep in that I woke up on the hour every hou...

A useful dictionary and a shiny new word...

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:41:00 --0800

Are you an aspriing writer trying to break into the publishing world? Trying to crack the odd language that is publisherspeak? Don't know an ARC from a Full? Or a Sell-through from an Imprint? The BookEnds Literary Agency has just posted a very us...

Thursday"s Movie Review - Baby Mama

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:17:00 --0800

A rom-com for a change this week. What is it with all these pregnancy movies? When did it become cool? It's all Brangelina's fault, I think. Successful single businesswoman Kate Holbrook (Tina Fey) is 37. After years of putting her career ahead of ...

Warlord now available in the UK

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 06:11:00 --0800

Well, the wait is finally over.

The Orbit edition of Warlord is now available in the UK. It's taken a while but it's here now so woo hoo!

Thanks to Gabby and Bella at Orbit for being so great and supportive.

Some excellent writing advice from Matthew Jarpe

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 08:21:00 --0800

I was going to put up something about writing this week and then sci-fi writer Matthew Jarpe, author of Radio Freefall, listed "5 Writing Lessons I Wish I'd Learned the Easy Way" over on his very entertaining blog. They are impo...

And they accuse fantasy writers of using whacky names...

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 07:42:00 --0800

Remember the reviewer that had a go at one of my books recently for the excessive use of silly names? Well, I have now decided excessive use of silly names is merely art imitating life. You see, Gwen Stafani and Gavin Rossdale just named their seco...

Yes mum... you look fat in that...

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 16:00:00 --0800

Dace sat his mother down last night and suggested, none too gently, that she was getting a bit tubby and she really should think about ordering something like Lite'n'Easy so she could lose some weight. He then proceeded to give her the whole a...