Mane Voco’s elder son Isa has done something unheard of – he has started wearing glasses.
Monthly Archives: April 2014
Who is Gert?
Guy Savage of His Futile Preoccupations has followed up his review of Writing is Easy with an interview with us about Gert and how she operates. You can read it here:
Literary genres competition winner
It was difficult to choose a winner of our competition: it’s clear that there are many ways of being a horrible father. However, we decided to award the prize to Chicken Lady at Locust Lane, if only for the almost insane enthusiasm with which she threw herself into the project. Congratulations, Chicken Lady, your bus ticket is in the mail.
Stand by for our next competition, for which the prize is a family ticket to the Nietzsche Fun Park in beautiful Basingstoke, concrete jewel of Britain.
The winner of the equally prestigious Leacock Medal for Humor, of which we wrote in an earlier post, is Bill Conall for The Promised Land. You can read about it here.
http://billconall.com/my-books/the-promised-land-a-novel-of-cape-breton/
It’s already kennelled in Gert’s Kobo.
His Futile Preoccupations
Guy Savage on his blog His Futile Preoccupations has given Writing is Easy a wonderful review. You can read it here
Some other reviews are at
https://www.librarything.com/work/14521205/reviews/104198531
Have cat, will earn
It had to happen. Patricia Carlin, who wrote the indispensable How to tell if your boyfriend is the Anti-Christ (and if he is, should you break up with him?) has written a book called How to Make Your Cat an Internet Celebrity: A Guide to Financial Freedom.
Cat = Income, it seems, if you know how to brand and market.
As the owner of an exceptionally beautiful cat, when she saw this Gert leapt off the couch like said cat to the sound of the tin-opener and went galumphing down the corridor to order the book. Now to set the plan in motion.
Sunday Serial – Karma (1)
Saturday morning. Barry has woken up on the floor of his flat. The door is swinging open behind him and a piece of newspaper is caught in the angle between arm and chest. It whips up and plasters itself across his face as he sits up.
Literary genres competition
One entry has flooded in for our Literary genres competition. Check out our earlier post Literary genres- My horrible father and get your entry in by cockcrow (Australian time) on Sunday April 27th for your chance to win a return bus trip to Nar Nar Goon.
Ghosts (2) – Andrew O’Hagan and Julian Assange
Gert was amused last year when the memoir of a – well, not famously eloquent – footballer came out with the title In my own words and the byline with (name of ghostwriter). She was reminded of the French film Mensonges et Trahisons in which a ghostwriter is hired to write the autobiography of a famous soccer star.
Continue reading Ghosts (2) – Andrew O’Hagan and Julian Assange
Literary genres – My Horrible Father
Gert has long considered writing a book called My Horrible Father. It is a venerable genre stretching back at least to the Old Testament God. Then there are many horrible fathers in fairy tales who lock their children up, abandon them or sell them.
Australian Love Poems
Australian Love Poems 2013 (Inkerman & Blunt), in which half of Gert has a poem, has achieved the extraordinary feat for a book of poetry of going into a second edition, this time simply called Australian Love Poems.
Gert Loveday's Fun with Books 