io9.com posted a gorgeous chart on how time travel works across different stories, including The Shining Girls, Groundhog Day, Terminator, Looper, Primer, Donnie Darko and Twelve Monkeys. It was put together by Matthew Brown & Sam Wilson and illustrated by the amazing Adam Hill (who also illustrated The Shining Girls card game cards). […]
I killed 3000 words today*. They had to die. They were all wrong. I have replaced them with other, better words. But it still hurts. Inside. The daily word count is an artificial thing and it doesn’t work for everyone, but it gives me a yardstick to prove that I have accomplished something, that I am making […]
I’ve had some readers disappointed that we never really get into the depths of Harper’s head in The Shining Girls, that there’s a lack of depth of deep dark motivation, unlike, say someone diabolical like Hannibal Lecter. But there’s a reason I wrote him like that. Because that’s what real serial killers look like […]
NIROXprojects put together a Zoo City-inspired exhibition at Arts on Main in Johannesburg’s Maboneng Precinct with a bunch of amazing artists, curated by Ann Marie-Tully and Neil Nieuwoudt. There’s some terrific coverage on it in the Mail & Guardian by Ang Lloyd: Here’s a snip: “I ask Tully why the exhibition features many human-animals, as […]
Here’s a list of some of my favourite books I read this year, put together very unscientifically by glancing at my book shelves and picking through the pile (wall, really, I have enough books to make a wall) next to my bed. No doubt I have missed out on a bunch of brilliant ones and […]
Salon’s Ultimate Book Guide 2013 asked writers from Junot Díaz to Lee Child to recommend their favourite books they read this year. (I raved about Max Barry’s Lexicon, a smart, twisty thriller that turns into something profoundly more ambitious and surprising with brutality, beauty and empathy). I was blown away by Joe Hill‘s write up on […]
There have been a lot of moving tributes to Mandela and what this country has come through over the last few days. One which touched me most is the most personal, a letter from my husband, Matthew Brown, to a seven year old kid he’s never met. My American friend Alan wrote me an email […]