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About Me
- Satima Flavell
- I am a writer, editor, reviewer and dance teacher based in Perth, Western Australia.
My books
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The Cloak of Challiver
Available again as an ebook soon!
Mythic Resonance
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Mythic Resonance is an excellent anthology that includes my short story 'La Belle Dame', together with great stories from Alan Baxter, Donna Maree Hanson, Sue Burstynski, Nike Sulway and nine more fantastic authors! Just $US3.99 from Amazon.
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For Readers, Writers & Editors
- A dilemma about characters
- Adelaide Writers Week, 2009
- Adjectives, commas and confusion
- An artist's conflict
- An editor's role
- Authorial voice, passive writing and the passive voice
- Common misuses: common expressions
- Common misuses: confusing words
- Common misuses: pronouns - subject and object
- Conversations with a character
- Critiquing Groups
- Does length matter?
- Dont sweat the small stuff: formatting
- Free help for writers
- How much magic is too much?
- Know your characters via astrology
- Like to be an editor?
- Modern Writing Techniques
- My best reads of 2007
- My best reads of 2008
- My favourite dead authors
- My favourite modern authors
- My influential authors
- Planning and Flimmering
- Planning vs Flimmering again
- Psychological Spec-Fic
- Readers' pet hates
- Reading, 2009
- Reality check: so you want to be a writer?
- Sensory detail is important!
- Speculative Fiction - what is it?
- Spelling reform?
- Substantive or linking verbs
- The creative cycle
- The promiscuous artist
- The revenge of omni rampant
- The value of "how-to" lists for writers
- Write a decent synopsis
- Write a review worth reading
- Writers block 1
- Writers block 2
- Writers block 3
- Writers need editors!
- Writers, Depression and Addiction
- Writing in dialect, accent or register
- Writing it Right: notes for apprentice authors
Interviews with authors
My Blog List
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Amazon Release The Battle of Bug World + Book Giveaway - Amazon released The Battle of Bug World (Song Bird 2), empowering children’s eco fantasy. Amazon released my book across the globe, in every continent. I...3 hours ago
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THE LOST GIRL, by Carol Drinkwater - In just a few days time, my new novel *THE LOST GIRL* will be published. I have already written on my HG blogs that the story is set in two time zones:...
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7 More Cheesy Epic Fails To Avoid In Your Writing - Storytelling can be brilliant, but certain elements of storytelling GET OLD very quickly. Sometimes, the device itself is at fault; other times it’s HOW it...10 hours ago
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Why My Wife is Amazing, Part 73,592 - Conversation between me and Krissy yesterday: Me: With all this bullshit around health care, and the possibility of pre-existing conditions and insurance c...11 hours ago
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Writing Prompt: The Photo Prompt: Handprints - *By Janice Hardy, @Janice_Hardy* This week’s prompt is a photo prompt. Write whatever comes to mind, be it a description, a story, or even a poem. Write ...
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Reducing the harm done by substances: key strategies - The most recent data on life expectancy for the United States show stagnation over the past three years. This stagnation has happened at a time when the ...16 hours ago
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Fiction Writing Contests Worth Your Time (Summer 2017 Edition) - Inspired by Lit Hub’s 100 rejections per year post, my goal was to make at least 50 submissions in 2017. Since my last contest roundup, I’m at 64 submissio...16 hours ago
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CBCA Shortlist #2: Yellow by Megan Jacobson. Melbourne: Penguin, 2017 - "Yellow" is the nickname of Kirra Barley, given to her because of her unusual eye colour, by her father, whose nickname is Lark, because in his teens he...
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Blending People - (Picture from here.) Human beings are biased towards themselves. We then to think of the world as reflections of ourselves. We project our nature on our pe...21 hours ago
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PRECIOUS THINGS: JAY WATSON - I know I've said this about a few people, but Jay Watson is one of the loveliest human beings alive. He's a giant of a man, tall and broad, and just big, b...21 hours ago
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Saving the Day, Solving the Problem - To ensure reader satisfaction and a tight story, make sure that the protagonist solves the story problem. Make sure that the main character is involved in ...23 hours ago
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Book review: The Man Who Went Up In Smoke, by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö - The ‘Martin Beck’ series of police procedurals, written across the mid-sixties to the mid-seventies by Swedish ex-journalists Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö (t...1 day ago
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#WEPFF Write…Edit…Publish – BRIDGES Winners for June 2017 - This prompt brought a varied selection of entries but each one was a pleasant surprise and a joy to read. Thank you to all the participants for...
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Returning to Denver after 48 years - On Thursday, I’ll be flying off to Denver for Denver Comic Con The first time I went to Denver, Colorado was in September of 1969. I was seventeen years...1 day ago
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Elizabeth Anderson - Elizabeth Anderson is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and John Dewey Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies at the University of ...
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YLG/SLA conference - Today I’m at the joint YLG (Youth Libraries Group) and SLA (School Library Association) conference. Thanks to them for inviting me and Walker Books for spo...1 day ago
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Saturday Recipe - I am not a big fan of peanut butter, but I thought this pie sounded easy and good. *No-Cook Peanut Butter Pie* 1 1/2 cups (375 ml) creamy peanut butter 1...
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On the Smugglers’ Radar: Pride Month Edition - “On The Smugglers’ Radar” is a feature for books that have caught our eye: books we have heard of via other bloggers, directly from publishers, and/or fr...1 day ago
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Flog a BookBubber 80: Toby Neal - Writers, send your prologue/first chapter to FtQ for a “flogging” critique. Email as an attachment. Many of the folks who utilize BookBub are self-publishe...2 days ago
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The Medieval History of Stonehenge - How was Stonehenge perceived in the Middle Ages? Was it simply abandoned to the passage of time?2 days ago
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Creek Adventure - Jasmine and I enjoyed a beautiful creek adventure today. It was our last day together before Rohan is on holiday, too, so I wanted to do something special....2 days ago
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The Medway Raid and 17th century maritime warfare - The Medway Raid was the final and decisive major operation of the Second Anglo-Dutch War…3 days ago
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Evaluating Your Blog’s First Year: 12 Great Questions to Ask - Firstly … congratulations on making it through your first year. A lot of bloggers don’t get that far. During this evaluation, we’ll take a look at key me...3 days ago
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Hooray! - We haz rain - and what a lot of rain it has been. It was enough to cause a massive morning rush hour traffic jam on the freeway because the rain was so hea...3 days ago
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1923: Douglas Fairbanks & Mary Pickford Move To…Adelaide? - Douglas Fairbanks & Mary Pickford Move To…Adelaide? It may sound like a joke now, nearly 100 years later, but, in 1923, there was a strong possibility that...
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Supanova, giveaways and deep discounts! - Three things really quickly and they’re all great! Firstly, I’ll be at Supanova in Perth this weekend. Supanova Perth – June 23rd, 24th and 25th. I will ...5 days ago
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This Morning I Caught My Brain Doing Something WEIRD! - I woke up this morning from one of those dreams that seem to go on forever, where there were international spies and murders and I was a writer working on ...5 days ago
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Deathwings: Dragon Wine Part Three is published - The title of this blog post says it all really. I still feel a bit of trepidation putting more Dragon Wine out. I guess is it because the series meant a lo...5 days ago
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Deathwings: Dragon Wine Part Three is published - The title of this blog post says it all really. I still feel a bit of trepidation putting more Dragon Wine out. I guess is it because the series meant a lo...5 days ago
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My Edward II Study Day at Sutton Hoo - This coming Saturday I'm giving a study day about Edward II at the Wuffing Education Centre at Sutton Hoo - please do come! Details here: http://wuffingedu...6 days ago
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Dick McCullough was a great client for me, a great boss for many, and a great guy for everybody - I hadn’t seen Dick McCullough, who was my most-fun-to-work-with client of all time and the best leader I ever met in the corporate world, for at least a fe...1 week ago
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Border Castle and Forester's Lodge - The Altenstein at the Werra - There are several castles named *Altenstein* or *Altenburg* in Germany. The one I'm writing about here are a few ruins hidden in a forest near Bad Sooden-...
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For James Vance, and his family - I read James' Vance's work before I met the man. He was a playwright who had discovered comics and wrote a graphic novel called KINGS IN DISGUISE, set in ...1 week ago
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2017 Ditmar Winners Announced - Over the Queen’s Birthday weekend, spec fic fans gathered for Continuum 13: Triskaidekaphilia. Continuum is always a great convention, and this year it was...1 week ago
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New podcast story out! - My story “Monster’s Exist” is free to hear online at Pseudopod. The reading by Ron Jon is absolutely fucking brilliant. Go listen for the quality of the pe...1 week ago
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Time traveling… - Tregothnan Estate is where quality tea is produced. We had a walk around the gardens then had a tea tasting. Then we went onto Charlestown and after that o...1 week ago
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Children of the Shaman Goodreads giveaway! - I am giving away three paperback copies of my first novel, Children of the Shaman, in the new edition by Kristell Ink, absolutely free! The giveaway opens ...2 weeks ago
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“They Paved Paradise …” - Somewhere in the world, there are some actual car parks that are beautiful. Absolute stunners. Picturesque. Ecological. Perfect. Here’s one: I jest. But as...2 weeks ago
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Writers [on Writing]: John Updike - Updike refers to a favourite novel and protagonist of mine here in the whisky priest from Greene's classic *The Power and the Glory*. I've read plenty of...
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Writing about the Crusades and talking about a "meddlesome priest" - The Middle Ages are in the news again, so here is a roundup of recent news articles. We start with three good reads from historians talking about the crusa...
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#289 - Question: So in my end paragraph as you'll see that I included comments about the representation that's in my story. And yes, I'm trying to think of a less...3 weeks ago
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WHERE TO BUY MY BOOKS - IN AUSTRALIA... PRINT VERSIONS Should be available off the shelf at specialty bookstores -- like *Stefan's Books*, or *White Dwarf* in Perth. *Galaxy* in Sy...3 weeks ago
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Upcoming Perth events at the Fremantle Arts Centre and Rockingham Writers Centre - I’ll be appearing at a couple of writerly events in the next few months in the Perth region. Firstly, I’m conducting a crime writing workshop at the Freman...3 weeks ago
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The Lion of Wisdom Meditation Center - The new Meditation Center on the hill Hi Friends, Since leaving Brasil I have been staying at the new, Pannasiha, 'Lion of Wisdom' Meditation Center, a f...
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Interview: Alice Loweecey - Baker of brownies and tormenter of characters, Alice Loweecey recently celebrated her thirtieth year outside the convent. She grew up watching Hammer horro...3 weeks ago
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A New Hobby - Painting - Wow, ten months have simply vanished since I last blogged and this place here is *dusty*! (And I'm sneezing--for real!) Alas, I've not been idle all this w...
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The Pain and Joy of Moving - In the beginning of September 2016, this huge moving van pulled in front of our new house with our life in boxes. We moved 2000 miles across the country le...4 weeks ago
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Marianne’s gunna be a Gunna! - Gunnas Sci Fi Writing Masterclass With Marianne de Pierres Date: Saturday, June 24th, 2017 Time: 10am-4pm Venue: La Luna Bistro Interested in writing scien...4 weeks ago
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Contranyms: Words that mean two opposites - I asked for examples of "contranyms"-- a word with two opposite meanings. Here are some friends contributed: Fast= quick to get away/ Fast like "he was ...4 weeks ago
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The One and the Many – every Sunday - My first serious girlfriend came from good Roman Catholic stock. Having tried (and failed) to be raised as a Christian child and finding nothing but lifele...4 weeks ago
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Poem: Mother's Day - Mother's Day -- bitter sweet. Thinking of mothers -- on earth or in heaven, blessings and lost blessings. Sick children, children in heaven. Once on my mot...1 month ago
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The ancient parish of Aghallow and the territories of Muinterbirne and Largie in county Tyrone, 1609/10 - My main objectives for studying the Manors of Kinard [later known as the Caledon estate] and Ballymagran are to determine the geographic extent and to tr...1 month ago
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The Law Finally Catches Up With Tate Publishing & Enterprises - *Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware* Today, Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter filed eight felony charges and one misdemeanor charge agains...
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Film Review: The Royal Shakespeare Company’s film of The Tempest. - (Reviewed by Frances, president of the Shakespeare Club of Western Australia.) The importance of special effects in *The Tempest* was certainly recognised ...
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The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (by Henry Fielding): Not quite a review - I've finally finished this. Although it took me a long time, it was surprisingly easy to read. Bear in mind that it was published in 1749, and I expected t...2 months ago
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Goodbyes: - Star-man sits securely strapped, the weight of no weight pushes him upwards as if his mother’s aged and firm hand still held its familiar place in the sma...2 months ago
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Amazon Author Pages: Build Your Presence in the USA, the UK, Germany, India, and beyond - Let’s Get Visible (IV) How to Sell Your Book No Matter Who Published It (7) . Through its Author Central program, Amazon provides a great opportunity to ex...2 months ago
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Ebooks Sales Slowing? Yes and No - *Joe sez:* This blog originally appeared in 2010. It's extremely prescient about the future of ebooks, but that isn't the reason I'm reposting it. I'm repo...
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A Shameless Plug Ian Likes: Bibliorati.com - A little-known fact is that I once had a gig reviewing books for five years. It was for a now-defunct website known as The Specusphere. It was awesome fun:...3 months ago
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New Gymnastic Photography Video - Just a quick 50 second video clip of photographs I’ve done recently with gymnasts. Want a gymnastic photography shoot? Contact me now!3 months ago
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Recommended reads of 2016 (part two) - Following on from my previous blog post about my favoured reads from the last year or so, which was my first blog post for some time, here is part two. I h...
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Just when you think the world couldn't get any madder... - CAMRA, the highly successful consumer organisation that has for *decades* promoted Real Ale has decided that it needs to be 'revitalised'. The project grou...4 months ago
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Book Review - Nobody by Threasa Meads - Available from BooktopiaThe subtitle for this work is *A Liminal Autobiography*. Liminal: 1. relating to a transitional or initial stage of a process. 2...
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What is a 'Wapentake' - English counties were divided into smaller administrative units. Normally, these are called 'Hundreds' but in the former Danelaw, they are called 'Wapentak...5 months ago
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My talk about fact-checking - The Editors Guild recorded my talk about fact-checking last night and posted it to their YouTube channel, so you can watch it here: Unfortunately, there we...7 months ago
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Friday, 15 May 2015
Guest Post on Kim Cleary's blog
Friday, May 15, 2015 | 
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Will try and get there later. Time seems to have disappeared lately. Never have any.
Yes, I'm finding the older I get, the shorter the days become!