I have had covers for two titles in my Sixties Series professionally designed. One is for Love in the Counterculture, which is due for release at the end of June 2026. The second is for The Counterculture Goddess, published in 2025 and revised in 2026, which I have just received.
I have also provided a character and other information sheet for readers. My plan is to provide a similar information sheet for all my fiction titles.
This typically spiteful girl is clearly unaware that she has a use-by date of ten years – fifteen if she’s lucky. There’ll be no more trading on her looks and youth then.
Funded and supported by our treasonous government and spruiked by the ABC and SBS.
There’s a revolution going on in writing. One must keep up.
John Matthew Fox, of Bookfox, critically runs through Johnathan Franzen’s 10 rules for novelists, which have apparently infuriated many writers, even some of the best-known. I agree mostly with him. He dismisses 6 of the 10. The only comment I wish to make is on the claim that ‘Substituting then is the lazy or tone-deaf writer’s non-solution to the problem of too many ands on the page.’ Even worse is using ‘and then’. I say rubbish, bunkum and piffle to that. Listen to the way English-speaking people speak.
Alina, who has two degrees in literature that she doesn’t know what to do with, opens this video with the question: “Does anyone else feel like contemporary novels are written like we’re stupid?” She then proceeds to favour us with her views in a world-weary way that characterises her videos. It’s an interesting discussion – you hope it would be with two degrees – but a little too long and too focused on her demographic – twenty-something girls.
I don’t have much to say about her views because I don’t read contemporary novels. That’s mainly due to my being sick to death of the woke assumptions that are either in the foreground or the background. Now, Alina slings off at a right-winger like me (actually, I’m a Burkean conservative, but I rather doubt Alina knows what that is) who complains about the left-wing bias in contemporary novels.
She says political ideas are an essential part of literature. Well, they are, but that’s not the point. The issue is how political ideas are handled in woke novels and how they characterise their political opposition.
In the first place, they are assumed, which is intellectual surrender or, worse, the woke writer does not possess the ability to justify his ideas philosophically. In the second place, woke writers have no idea of the philosophical underpinnings of a competent, serious conservative writer. Such a philosophical defence is not imaginable.
Excellent video. It makes all the right points about Welcome to Country, land rights, invasion, and all the nonsensical claims about Australia’s history by reinvented White-Aboriginals. What do people expect when a person states, as an introduction to Anzac Day, that most of the people listening are not legitimate on the land they’re standing on?
Will we get a lot of uncles and aunties, made-up welcomes to country, religious animist smoking ceremonies, white flabby painted men dancing around waving spears and clicking sticks, nonsensical Australian history . . .?
We’ll see.
Will Victoria ever get over Daniel Andrews’ and Jacinta Allan’s period in government?
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Horrifying footage has captured the moment a group of machete-wielding attackers leap from a moving vehicle and attack two men in broad daylight.
Emma Kirk, Newswire, news.com.au, 21 April 2026
Horrifying footage has captured the moment a group of masked, machete-wielding youths leap from a moving car on an inner-city Melbourne street and attack two men in broad daylight.
In the footage, obtained by 9News, about six youths can be seen jumping out of a stolen white Haval and chasing down two men on Bay St and Lalor St in Port Melbourne.
Some can be seen armed with metal poles and at least one can be seen carrying a machete.
One of the victims was caught as he tried to run for his life.