Tropic Temper

...Writing fantasy and living the reality of a tropical environmentalist

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Glenda Larke
Malaysia
My life has been described by one of my editors as “impossibly exotic” – although really it is not my life, but me, that’s the exotic. I’m the uprooted plant, the exotic who doesn’t belong, always living in someone else’s backyard... An Australian living in Malaysia. Writer, traveler, environmentalist. Author of The Isles of Glory trilogy (The Aware, Gilfeather, The Tainted); The Mirage Makers trilogy (Heart of the Mirage, The Shadow of Tyr, Song of the Shiver Barrens) and, writing as Glenda Noramly, a stand-alone book Havenstar. Now working on a new trilogy, ...Book One is titled THE LAST STORMLORD.

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Watergivers Book 1

Watergivers Book 1
The Last Stormlord (Australia)

Watergivers (Stormlord) trilogy: Book 3 progress


78444 / 170000 words. 46% done!

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The Last Stormlord

The Last Stormlord
Book One (UK )

For Science Fiction and Fantasy lovers

For Science Fiction and Fantasy lovers
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Conqueror's Moon
by Julian May
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MY BOOKS

MY BOOKS
Clairvoyante, Pygmalion edition (The Aware in French)

Guérisseur

Guérisseur
French edition of Gilfeather

The Aware, French edition "Clairvoyante"

The Tainted, Russian edition

UK: Book 3 of Mirage Makers

UK: Book 3 of Mirage Makers

Book 1 of The Mirage Makers

Book 1 of  The Mirage Makers
Orbit UK edition

Book 2 of the Mirage Makers

Book 2 of the Mirage Makers
Orbit UK edition

Book 1 of The Mirage Makers Voyager Australia edition

book 2 of the Mirage Makers, Voyager Australia edition

Book 3 The Mirage Makers, Voyager Australia

Book 1 of the Isles of Glory, Voyager Australia edition

Book 2 of Isles of Glory, Voyager Australia edition

Book 3 Isles of Glory, Voyager Australia

Havenstar, German edition

Havenstar, Russian edition

Havenstar, Virgin Worlds UK

The Aware, Russian edition

Gilfeather, Russian edition

Book 1 The Isles of Glory, ACE US edition

book 2 The Isles of Glory Ace US edition

Book 3 The Isles of Glory, Ace US edition

Awards

Awards
2007 Fantasy Novel

2003, 2004 and 2006 / Fantasy Novel

Blog Archive

  • ►  2009 (281)
    • ►  November (9)
      • More from NaNoWriMo...in Kuala Lumpur
      • So, do folk think women writers' themes are trivia...
      • Writing continues
      • Hiccup in the progress...
      • Day 4 of NaNoWriMo
      • . Yesterday's NaNoWriMo : 2044, bringing total up ...
      • Weird stuff from Malaysian politics
      • Review of The Last Stormlord
      • NaNoWriMo
    • ►  October (29)
      • Selling women in Kelantan??
      • It's official: Malaysians think adults don't read
      • I am all in favour of air-brushing
      • An abortion, anyone? Absolutely!!
      • Latest read
      • Let's be politically correct, right?
      • Today...
      • I want to sell my laptop
      • Distractions, distractions...
      • Be ashamed. Be very ashamed...
      • Anti-birdwatching device on my telescope
      • Diamonds on the family
      • One third done!!
      • The Reader's Bill of Rights
      • A funny video specifically for writers...enjoy!!
      • Amazon bites the hand that feeds them...again
      • Two SFnovelists on a day in Malacca (aka Melaka)
      • My slant on italics...
      • Writing to win a race - how mad is that?
      • Malaysia's first science fiction and fantasy club?...
      • Clairvoyante et Guérisseur, Les Isles Glorieuses
      • Wordily triumphant!
      • The race is on...
      • For teachers/librarians who want to promote readin...
      • Where did the idea of pedes come from?
      • Hardback or paperback?
      • Long live the independents!
      • Writing...
      • People who heard about the online read...
    • ►  September (30)
      • A writer's encouragement of witchcraft has a cost?...
      • The power of he who manipulates language...
      • SF saw it first?
      • Books...I love them, no matter how they are served...
      • Royalty time....
      • Compared to a brewing storm...
      • The weirdness of the writer's perception
      • Another review
      • Holes in my roof
      • Here's an article all booklovers should read
      • My new hero is an elderly Canadian lady...
      • Whither goest thou, publishing?
    • ►  August (26)
    • ►  July (26)
    • ►  June (22)
    • ►  May (19)
    • ►  April (25)
    • ►  March (26)
    • ►  February (24)
    • ►  January (45)
  • ►  2008 (334)
    • ►  December (38)
    • ►  November (24)
    • ►  October (30)
    • ►  September (25)
    • ►  August (27)
    • ►  July (30)
    • ►  June (26)
    • ►  May (27)
    • ►  April (30)
    • ►  March (24)
    • ►  February (27)
    • ►  January (26)
  • ►  2007 (268)
    • ►  December (28)
    • ►  November (16)
    • ►  October (25)
    • ►  September (28)
    • ►  August (28)
    • ►  July (29)
    • ►  June (24)
    • ►  May (14)
    • ►  April (13)
    • ►  March (26)
    • ►  February (15)
    • ►  January (22)
  • ▼  2006 (250)
    • ►  December (24)
    • ►  November (17)
    • ►  October (23)
    • ►  September (22)
    • ►  August (23)
    • ►  July (24)
    • ▼  June (26)
      • Next time you are in Barnes & Noble...
      • Which writers influenced you?
      • The oldest book group in the world...???
      • Why fantasy and not sci fi?
      • And Kuala Lumpur is sooooo unfriendly...
      • Grammar tips 4: who, whose, whom and who's
      • Friendly New York
      • Losing touch indeed...
      • How I write a novel (3)
      • Losing touch with the natural world
      • Sabah Blogging: the Sunday market
      • Writing tips: keep it tight
      • When friends and booksellers rock...
      • Borneo blogging: back in Sabah
      • Review out of the past
      • Life in the technological fastlane
      • Writing tips 3: the feral apostrophe
      • How I write a novel (2)
      • BLOG INDEX: My books
      • How I write a novel (1)
      • BLOG INDEX: After Publication - the bumpy road of ...
      • BLOG INDEX: Writing Tips / Tips on Getting Publish...
      • A New York without monuments
      • Writing tips 2: Grammar again
      • It's a quirky world...
      • CRASH
    • ►  May (22)
    • ►  April (21)
    • ►  March (27)
    • ►  February (21)

Blog Index

  • Writing tips
  • Life After Publication
  • About my books

Links

  • My webpage

Books read in 2009

  • --The Map of the Invisible World by Tash Aw
  • -- The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
  • --Air by Geoff Ryman
  • --The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
  • -- The Turning Tide by Diana Pharoah Francis
  • --Victory of Eagles by Naomi Novak
  • --Wandering Star by J.N.G. Le Clezio, the 2008 Nobel Prize winner for literature
  • -- Wizard Squared by K.E.Mills. Amazing plot, utterly unexpected.
  • -- The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami
  • -- Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
  • --The Way of Shadows by Brent Weeks
  • --Lord of Dishonour by Edith Layton
  • --The Duke'sWorld by Edith Layton
  • --Magic Bites by Ilona Andrews
  • --The King of Torts by John Grisham (not nearly as good as others I have read of his)
  • --Blood Bound by Patricia Briggs
  • --From Heaven Lake by Vikram Seth
  • --Ethan Frome and selected stories by Edith Wharton
  • --No Way Home by Carlos Acosta entertaining read - the private tribulations and public successes of a dancer from Cuba
  • --Shadowplay by Tad Williams - I really want to read the next one!
  • --Always Bells by Winifred Stegar
  • --Shadowmarch by Tad Williams
  • --Code Noir by Marianne de Pierres
  • --A Company of Liars by Karen Maitland (A novel of the plague)
  • --A Breath of Snow and Ice by Diana Gabaldon
  • --A Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
  • --The Skewed Throne by Joshua Palmatier
  • --Royal Exile by Fiona McIntosh
  • --Thud by Terry Pratchett
  • --The Brief and Wondous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
  • --Q&A by Vikas Swarup
  • --The Risen Empire by Scott Westerfeld
  • --Love and Other Demons by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • --Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett
  • --The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng (A Malaysian writer's look at a boy growing up caught between two worlds heading into a war)
  • --World Without End by Ken Follett
  • --Blood and Iron by Elizabeth Bear (a fascinating look at some old myths and faerie in the modern world)
  • --Dreams from my Father by Barack Obama (loved it. A look at a young man's concerns, written by a relatively young man with reassuring maturity)
  • --The Winds of Darkover by Marion Zimmer Bradley
  • --Bloody Sun by Marion Zimmer Bradley
  • --Sharra's Exile by Marion Zimmer Bradley
  • --O is for Outlaw by Sue Grafton
  • --The Last Argument of Kings by Joe Abercrombie
  • --M is for Malice by Sue Grafton
  • --N is for Noose by Sue Grafton
  • --A Mercy by Toni Morrison [magnificent read, touching, disturbingly real, set in 1690s USA]
  • --The Heritage of Hastur by Marion Zimmer Bradley
  • --The Prodigal Mage by Karen Miller (In manuscript) [superb fast-paced read, lots of emotion and character development; not a complex plot, but hard to put this one down.]
  • --Before They are Hanged by Joe Abercrombie [excellent gritty read]
  • --Shadow Gate by Kate Elliott [better even than book 1 as the plot threads start to come together. Great world building]

Wednesday, June 07, 2006

BLOG INDEX: After Publication - the bumpy road of a published writer

When Friends and Booksellers Rock... June 16th, 2006

Why Fantasy and not Sci Fi? June 27th , 2006

It's a Quirky World June 03, 2006

What's with this middle book thing? May 25, 2006

When readers get it wrong... May 11, 2006

Feedback trickles in... April 28, 2006

If you don't read fantasy, read this.
April 04, 2006

Author Trepidation March 30, 2006

Ten things I have learned as a Fantasy Writer
March 26, 2006

The Mystery of the Missing Middle Book March 15, 2006

The Downside of Being a Writer March 14, 2006

Writing in the Tradition of... February 25, 2006

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Fame... February 20, 2006

An Author's View of Reviews
February 9, 2006
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