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MacDibble

I am here for Networking

About Me

I'm a New Zealander living in Australia, a children's book writer, a science fiction writer, a teacher of writing and creative computer skills, a home renovator, a member of SuperNOVA in Melbourne, a member of Kidswriters Downunder , a member of Otherworld's writers workshop , a mod at sffworld , a Clarion survivor, a member of SCBWI , a member of the ASA , I have two children, a belay licence, a licence to drive a Segway, an affinity for sheep and a massive inferiority complex.
Author of Become a Children's Writer

And children's books:

The Beast of Moogill - a blog on writing.
The Blog of Moogill - a blog on everything.
www.macdibble.com - My Webpage

My Interests

books, writing, science fiction, children's books

I'd like to meet:

Other children's writers and other science fiction writers.

Music:

The Corrs

Movies:

Alien, Blade Runner, Pirates of the Carribean, American Psycho, Kill Bill,

Television:

Red Dwarf, Black Adder, Monty Python, Love My Way, Lost

Books:

Snow Crash, Roadside Picnic, The Iron Dragon's Daughter, Hominids, The Black Crusade, American Gods, The Futurological Congress, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Good Omens, Moon Seed, Bones of the Earth, Coraline,

My Blog

Awww... famous last words

Well... just when I thought I was on mentoring leave, the Owls with Bushy Eyebrows program... is that what it's called?  No wait... Little Owls...  found me another mentee.&nb...
Posted by MacDibble on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 04:40:00 PST

"HOW TO BECOME A CHILDREN'S WRITER"

Well, my mentoring time is done for the moment.  I like mentoring and will do it again once I sort my life out (an ongoing project that I've already invested many many years in).  In the mea...
Posted by MacDibble on Sun, 12 Aug 2007 09:48:00 PST

SUCCESS!

  I'd like to say that I'm a successful mentor but that would just raise questions about what a successful mentor is, and how the term should be defined.  For instance, has everyon...
Posted by MacDibble on Sun, 22 Jul 2007 08:12:00 PST

Life on the Mentorside

As you know, I'm a little time poor, so I'm not your ideal mentor.  Added to that is that people I critique tell me I'm too hard on them.  So I admit, I was a little nervous entering into a ...
Posted by MacDibble on Mon, 22 Jan 2007 05:51:00 PST

I Have a Mentee!

They found me a match! And my first thought was, that if you stood me at 18 next to this girl who is 18, you couldn't find two more different people! The mentee is in university.  I found ou...
Posted by MacDibble on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 04:01:00 PST

Still waiting for the perfect short person

"Do you like our owl?" I don't really have big eyebrows.  This is just owl banner for mentors from the Absynthemuse Mentoring Program.  They sent me this note: Hope and Lis are here t...
Posted by MacDibble on Sun, 24 Sep 2006 07:10:00 PST

Becoming a Mentor

The cry, desperate and soulful, drew me across the cosmos...or, for the realists amongst us... a post at the forum Write4Kids lead me to this post at the livejournal of Agent Obscura: Wanna corrupt a ...
Posted by MacDibble on Sun, 17 Sep 2006 09:21:00 PST