So when I’m not writing posts here I’m actually living a whole other secret life full of action, teaching secondary students about books and writing…
Craig Hildebrand-BurkeMarch 20, 2016
Recently, there has been a flurry of scandalous debate about a report and analysis into the changing world of publishing by Wool author Hugh Howey. Howey’s exceedingly detailed…
Craig Hildebrand-BurkeMarch 1, 2014
A discussion yesterday about the practice of editing on paper against editing electronically branched off into an interesting tangent: just how attached are we to…
Craig Hildebrand-BurkeFebruary 16, 2014
While we are still being fed tiny morsels to whet our appetites for an adaptation to Stephen King’s Dark Tower series (Aaron Paul! Javier Bardem! Netflix!), it…
Craig Hildebrand-BurkeFebruary 16, 2014
Last year recorded the biggest sale of vinyl albums in Australia since they started tracking their sales in 1991. What has this got to do…
Craig Hildebrand-BurkeJanuary 25, 2014
Late last year I wrote a post about the conventions and use of quotation marks when writing dialogue. And not that I want to reopen the debate…
Craig Hildebrand-BurkeJanuary 15, 2014
Quotation marks are odd things. I guess this is true of most punctuation marks, but I find quotation marks especially odd. Ostensibly there to mark…
Craig Hildebrand-BurkeJanuary 15, 2014
A while ago Mark did a series of posts on the best opening lines in fiction. Around the same time there was this excellent piece in…
Craig Hildebrand-BurkeJanuary 15, 2014
‘And son, about that Shirley Jackson story.’ ‘Yes sir?’ ‘There’s nothing to get.’ ‘No? That’s not what Mr Marchant says.’ ‘With all due respect to…
Craig Hildebrand-BurkeJanuary 15, 2014