http://www.jeremy-gordon.com Author. Illustrator. Cartographer. Designer. Sun, 25 Jan 2009 11:44:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Unbelievable. I took the camera but didn't even think to get it out. And I was damn sober the whole time. No excuse really, unless the bright flashy lights and the spectacle of the show dashed my brains against my skull. And there was nothing terribly incriminating - at least ... http://www.jeremy-gordon.com/?p=23 37 degrees on the tarmac while taking off from Sydney this morning, which I gratefully exchanged for the blessed relief of 32 degrees at Brisbane. Like jumping out of one sweaty post-football sock and into another one. Chuck in two days and nights spent wrapped around the great white bowl, ... http://www.jeremy-gordon.com/?p=22 That's what most of my friends have said when I've told them that we are moving to New Zealand. Middle Earth wouldn't be too bad, if you had a thing for pipeweed and hairy feet (which I do) and didn't have a thing against orcs and dwarves (which I don't) ... http://www.jeremy-gordon.com/?p=21 Click here to see the full map. How to trash a continent: 1) Find a good map. 2) Raise the sea level til the map looks cool. 3) Drop a few nuclear explosions on key urban centres. 4) Rename what's left with puns if possible. and voila! instant post-holocaust australia! Had a lot of fun doing this... ... http://www.jeremy-gordon.com/?p=20 It was recently pointed out to me that for blog that's also about illustration I seem to have a rather small collection of piccies — namely none. No more! Over the next few weeks I'll comb through the flaking temples of my portfolio and see what falls out. Here's some old ... http://www.jeremy-gordon.com/?p=19 Back row: Nicholas Tchan, Amin Chehelnabi, Roger Reynolds, Kylie Bullivant, Me, Maclaren North, Angela Rega, Kurt Mueller Front row: Cat Sparks, Terry Dowling, Rob Hood I could have gone with "what not to write and where not to get published", but (my crutch word, apparently) it was a creative writer's retreat, and that demands ... http://www.jeremy-gordon.com/?p=18 Great name for an old black and white war film I saw as a kid but also entirely relevant as I'm going on a writer's retreat this weekend. Actually "Retreat? Hell Yeah!" would have been better. Nine aspiring writerly types have submitted one short short story and one long short ... http://www.jeremy-gordon.com/?p=17 I had a mentor once, a long time ago. I'm not one for mentors, I've always tended to make my own mistakes and learn from them - eventually. But right now I'd give at least an elbow for one. My old mentor, lovely man, had such a positive effect on my writing, ... http://www.jeremy-gordon.com/?p=16 Is what this blog needs. Anything to get it back up and running. So, having salivated heavily on the monitor for a minute, this neglected little patch of pixels is alive once more. 'bout bloody time.... Jeremy http://www.jeremy-gordon.com/?p=15 Typical — the darkest discussions I've attended as part of the Sydney Writers' Festival were also the funniest. First thing Saturday morning was spent listening to Australian authors Steve Toltz, Chris Wombersley, and Michael Robotham as they talked about flawed good guys and sympathetic baddies in Heroes and Criminals, followed by Memory, a ... http://www.jeremy-gordon.com/?p=14