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If you just arrived, here's what you might need to know:

I am a 29-year-old Pakeha (New Zealander of primarily white European ancestry) young adult fiction writer. I live in Australia.

My first book, Guardian of the Dead was published by Little, Brown, and Allen and Unwin in 2010.

My second book, The Shattering, will be published in July 2011 (Australia and New Zealand) and September 2011 (USA).

I used to teach English in Japan. I am currently finishing my PhD at the University of Melbourne, on superhero comics as fan-created text.


I'm female, cisgendered, able-bodied, middle-class, and love me some diet coke. I read a lot, especially YA (naturally): comic books, sci-fi, fantasy, "contemporary literature", fanfic and essays on all of the above.

A gazillion years ago (or two) I wrote the column Girls Read Comics (And They're Pissed) (WARNING: swears!) for awesome feminist comics site Girl-Wonder.org.

My journal has occasional swears. If curse words offend you, you may not wish to read.

If you friend me, do introduce yourself. I like meeting new people! Be warned that I am notoriously crap at replying to comments; it doesn't mean I don't like you, it just means I'm lazy, busy and/or distracted. Also be warned! Unless I solicit advice in the course of an entry I am very unlikely to want or welcome it.

The Rule:

Respect others. Be adult. Hate speech will not be tolerated; that means no racism, sexism, transphobia, homophobia, ablism, victim-blaming, or any other form of discriminatory speech. This includes insulting icons attached to otherwise rule-following posts.

If you break The Rule, or are otherwise an asshole - and I have sole discretion on whether that has happened - I will delete the offending comment and possibly ban you.

Mostly, this isn't a problem, because the people who comment on this journal tend to be decent, ethical people with interesting things to say in a non-offensive manner. The Rule is in place because I like this state of affairs and wish to maintain it.


The Other Rule That Is More Like A Guideline Depending On My Crankiness Level And Relative Access To Chocolate

I seriously hate ellipses. Like, one bit me as a baby or something, I don't know. Anyway, you know how some people use them in place of commas or fullstops or any punctuation at all? Don't be that person in my comments.


Credits:

Journal theme by cartonage.

Header put together by miggy. Picture of Governor's Bay by Aidan Wojtas. Textures by puregin and adrisbow.

All writing copyright me unless otherwise indicated.

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