OMG! Big news! Angela is leaving Crikey!

(And I say that because she's keeping LiteraryMinded, just moving it.)

Shocking! Scandalous!

(Or maybe everyone knew but me until I found out on Twitter this afternoon.)

Well either way, it's the end of an era that's for sure! I'm going to miss Angela on there, but it's okay, as you can follow her new blog (address)! Hoorah!

Also, the new book blogger for Crikey is pretty awesome, she'll be starting soon but you can follow her on Twitter now.

I also discovered today (today's been a good day for discovering!) that you can BUY ECK. ECK. ECK!!!

As in Eck from Meg Rosoff's There Is No Dog. Which you've all read, right?

I can't believe it. A toy Eck!

I'm so incredibly excited. I think I shall have to send an email enquiring about special delivery :p

In other book news (as ...

I saw Contagion on the weekend. Jude Law's character, a journalist, is chasing Laurence Fishburne's character for information about what's happening.

Fishburne's character spits at him, "Blogging is not writing: it's graffiti with punctuation."

I smirked and, much to the dismay of those sitting around me, pulled out my phone to jot down the quote.

Of course, I started to think of defenses in my head but when I really thought about it, it's true.

But then again, that can be said of any print or online writing. As I mentioned in the interview that was posted over the weekend (you all enjoyed that, right?!) this can been seen as simply my soap box for anything I want to say. 

And, you know, people say that about certain journalists with columns in papers *cough*.

And then you could say that about authors pushing their own agenda's in ...

Part one is here, written by Rani McDonald.

There are a number of perks that come with successful Blogging. Talk us through those.

Yes there are perks but they don’t come for free… well technically they do come for free but it’s a lot of work. I get tonnes of review books, even more emails from people wanting to send me books, which I’ve been forced to decline. So yeah I get a lot of free books, I get a lot of event invites, I guess I’m also privy to a lot of information. I guess another major perk is networking. I mean… I would like to think I’m a pretty good networker!

There are a lot of people out there that are in it just for the perks, how do the publishers distinguish them from the genuine literary lovers?

Totally. Word of mouth. ...

Hey kids! Something a bit different and special today: part one of a two-part interview with me by a lovely girl from uni, Rani McDonald. Read more for insights into blogging, writing, reading, books and everything related! Part two will be up tomorrow.

The Girl Most Likely

 In a world where the internet is fast becoming the nerve-centre of society and blogging is the new darling of the media, I sat down to talk with rising star Megan Burke about her blog, the Melbourne literary scene and her new manuscript.

It’s 11:04am on a brisk spring morning in Melbourne and I’m running late. I rummage in my bag as I walk, locate my phone and shoot off a quick text explaining. Before long there is a bleep! bleep! and a reply comes back, ‘That’s ok! ...

Hell-o! *Peers* It's been a long time!

Pardon me just dropping off the face of the Internet. It's been a very long few weeks!

Essentially, I was just snowed under with finishing up uni work, and taking extra shifts at work.

Boring, yes. But it also meant that most nights I didn't get into bed til midnight or later, and was up at 7am.

Somedays - and this is the big shock - I didn't even turn on my computer!!! Shock horror I know, especially coming from someone who lives on their computer!

But I can finally breathe - well, sort of, as I have a killer flu and lost my voice the morning I was supposed to babysit five kids under 10 and a 7 month old, fun times! - until the end of November when my new degree starts!

Snap-shot of updates from the last ...