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For Masques writers, some stray comments on the volume here.

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My Food History blog is back up. Alma Alexander's guest posts are waiting for your enjoyment!

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I'm much cheerfuller than I was earlier today. Earlier today it felt as if the world was coming to an end. Now I have braised myself some chicken in fresh lime juice with tabasco sauce, dorrigo pepper and just a touch of olive oil. I then scattered that chicken liberally over a base of mesclun leaves and mixed beans, added the pan juices and some linseed oil as dressing, and called it dinner.

My life is full of good friends and good food. As long as I don't eat my friends and talk to my food by mistake, things will work out.

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One more update and that'll do for the day. Anyone going to Continuum in Melbourne the week after next will find me (or not find me, if avoidance is your aim) in the following places:

Reading
SATURDAY 4.20pm Sun Sphere

The Norma K Hemming Award
SUNDAY 10am Fire Space
An introduction to the Norma K Hemming Award as presented by the Australian Science Fiction Foundation.
Bill Wright, Gillian Polack, Sean McMullen

The Past is a Different Country
SUNDAY 12pm Earth Room
History can be more alien than many fantasy or science fictional cultures, often with beliefs and ethics quite confronting to us. How do the challenges of writing a historical culture compare to that of writing a fictional one?
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Gillian Polack, Lucy Sussex, Jack Dann, Paul Kidd

It's an exceptionally cool personal program. I might just read from both my forthcoming novels and confuse everyone mightily.