Maureen Flynn - Author
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2013 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 2,700 times in 2013. If it were a cable car, it would take about 45 trips…
Choose Your Own Adventure Crowd-funding Project
Do you remember the old Choose Your Own Adventure books? How would you like to do one in real life? For those of you who don’t know, I’m taking part in a new collaborative writing project where myself and some other fantastic genre writers are…
The Aurealis Awards 2013
On May 18th I had the wonderful opportunity of attending the 2013 Aurealis Awards. The AA’s annually recognise the achievements of Australian science fiction, horror and fantasy writers and this year a number of writers I know were nominated. The best part of such events…
Australian Blog of the Year 2013
Hi again dear readers! I recently entered my blog into the Australian Blog of the Year 2013 contest under the writing section. It is run by The Australian Writers Centre and the prizes look great- writing courses galore! I also (rather crazily it must be…
InkAshling: 2012 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 4,800 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed…
Blog of the Year Nominations
After putting some thought into it, here are the blogs I would like to award with the Blog of the Year. 1. Mrs Tribble’s ‘Wine and Roses from Outer Space’ http://rosewinelover.com/ Why? Because I really passionately believe in the good that this blog does. I…
Blog of the Year Award 2012
Thanks so much to Missus Tribble who has just awarded me with the Blog of the Year Award! I happen to love this ladies work so I am honoured that she enjoys what I write! Please check out her blog which acts as both a personal…
Genre Spotlight: Historical fiction, Nation Building Australia and Belinda Murrell’s The Forgotten Pearl
Belinda Murrell, The Forgotten Pearl, Random House Publishers, June 2012. RRP: $15.95 Australian. Western culture makes much of World War Two and with good reason- its scale was horrific, drawing civilians into war on an unprecedented scale and killing millions. It saw two oppressive dictatorships…