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Daughter on the Emmy red carpet |
...living the reality of a "retired" person, which means I work harder than ever at being a writer, lurching from one deadline to another.
About Me
- Glenda Larke
- Australia
- My life was described by one of my editors as “impossibly exotic” – although really it was not my life, but me, that was the exotic, the uprooted plant, the one who didn’t belong, always living in someone else’s backyard...
Now I am back in Australia, the returning native learning to live where I was born. Writer, traveler, environmentalist. Author of The Isles of Glory trilogy (The Aware, Gilfeather, The Tainted); The Mirage Makers trilogy (Heart of the Mirage, Shadow of Tyr, Song of the Shiver Barrens); The Stormlord trilogy The Last Stormlord, Stormlord Rising, Stormlord's Exile, and writing as Glenda Noramly, a stand-alone book Havenstar.
LATEST: THE FORSAKEN LANDS A clash of cultures and magic as traders and buccaneers hunt for spices and wealth in the Va-forsaken half of the world ... even as the unidentified darkness of plague and murder stalks their own land. THE LASCAR'S DAGGER , THE DAGGER'S PATH and final book, THE FALL OF THE DAGGER available worldwide now! A new standalone work is now with my publisher...

Saturday, September 29, 2012
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Today's purchases...
Dropped into the Santa Monica Barnes & Noble today and signed a couple of my books. And made a couple of purchases, including these two -- photographed on our coffee table in prestigious company, the Emmy's programme from last Sunday...
It's launch day for Anton Strout's "Alchemystic" and it's always nice to know your book sells on day 1; and I thought Lee (who's a pal from my hometown) might like to see his book basking in Los Angeles...
Besides, I want to read them both.
It's launch day for Anton Strout's "Alchemystic" and it's always nice to know your book sells on day 1; and I thought Lee (who's a pal from my hometown) might like to see his book basking in Los Angeles...
Besides, I want to read them both.
Saturday, September 22, 2012
Guess where I was this morning...(on Friday 21st actually, despite the heading)
Down on Venice Beach, CA
Watching the space shuttle Endeavour going to its last resting place.
Vale.
Friday, September 21, 2012
And then...disaster
I read recently that 97% of every location in the lower 48 states of the US is within 3.2 miles of a road.* In Australia it's probably the other way around: 97% of Australia is further (much further?) than 3.2 miles from any road...
And so, there we are bowling down a road that looks like this, with nary a car in sight (and in fact, hardly a car seen in either direction for over 100km):
...when we had a puncture. In fact, two punctures, at same time -- which in a place like this, is a bit of a disaster, as we only have only one spare tyre.
Fortunately for us there is someone around with a sense of humour, witness the sign.
Cobra Station. Or, for American readers, Cobra Ranch.
Otherwise known as the Old Bangemall Inn, once the local pub for station hands...
The station is called Cobra because of the cobra snake-like shape of the land concession.
One of the tyres blew up when an attempt was made to mend it in the station workshop -- so we have no spare and are not happy with the idea of continuing on without one. We take decide to stay put and settle in to the Cobra caravan park.The caravan park at dusk, day 1 |
We order a tyre from Carnarvon, back on the coast (some 400 kms away). Deliveries via Gascoyne Traders take place once a week, but we are hoping there will be someone else coming through earlier. And so we begin our wait.
We sit outside the van, sipping a glass of wine as the sun settles behind the trees.
Things could have been a lot worse...
*USDA Forest Service figures as quoted in Wired Science Sept 19, 2012
Friday, September 14, 2012
Kennedy Range
A few miscellaneous shots from areas around the Kennedy Range campsite camp site and from the nearby Temple Gorge. And by the way, if your knees give you problems while climbing I have come a huge believer in using a stick. Mine has an inner spring and is adjustable. It made the impossible a breeze...
Weird stone (Inner circle about a handspan across) |
All the walking trails are marked by those coloured circles... |
Inside Temple Gorge |
Inside Temple Gorge |
Husband with another odd boulder |
Odd bent stone with walking stick for size comparison |
A track made by kangaroos near the caravan park |
Heading towards the temple in Temple Gorge |
Inside Temple Gorge |
Honeycomb Gorge
Ok, so I do know I am in L.A. at the moment, but I haven't finished posting pix of our West Australian trip into the Gasgoyne division.These are taken in Honeycomb Gorge, one of the many gorges accessible around the Kennedy Ranges.
The waterfall you can see has water only when it rains... |
All these are of natural formations, made by wind and rain and water over millenia
To give an idea of size--there's me standing at the base, in the middle. |
Close up |
Husband and ...hieroglyphics? |
This was one of the weird formations -- about 40cm across. |
Monday, September 03, 2012
Saturday, September 01, 2012
I'm in Venice
Venice, California, that is...
I went for a walk today. The first person I met was a middle-aged lady with 4 or 5 heavy shopping bags, walking with difficulty because of a limp. I helped carry her bags to her car and found out she had just picked up free food distributed by a good Samaritan at the end of every month.
She said she had trouble meeting the rent and buying sufficient food as she could only work part-time, because of her leg. And the leg wouldn't get better because she can't afford the physio she needs. Seems to me something ridiculous about that -- affordable medical care would mean more productivity, but in the richest country in the world...
It seems so odd that Malaysia can provide very low-cost (often in fact free) health care, whereas USA so often can't.
I have to say, that as a West Australian used to dazzling white sand, this doesn't really do it for me.
Still, there are always the birds to look at. (Heermann's Gull above and American Crow below)
Or the artwork...
Or the street performers...
Or the dogs...
Or the green doctors prescribing medical marijuana...
I went for a walk today. The first person I met was a middle-aged lady with 4 or 5 heavy shopping bags, walking with difficulty because of a limp. I helped carry her bags to her car and found out she had just picked up free food distributed by a good Samaritan at the end of every month.
She said she had trouble meeting the rent and buying sufficient food as she could only work part-time, because of her leg. And the leg wouldn't get better because she can't afford the physio she needs. Seems to me something ridiculous about that -- affordable medical care would mean more productivity, but in the richest country in the world...
It seems so odd that Malaysia can provide very low-cost (often in fact free) health care, whereas USA so often can't.
I have to say, that as a West Australian used to dazzling white sand, this doesn't really do it for me.
Still, there are always the birds to look at. (Heermann's Gull above and American Crow below)
Or the artwork...
Or the street performers...
Or the green doctors prescribing medical marijuana...
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