Monthly Archives: August 2015

All the Fun of the Ball (or Any Excuse for a New Costume).

Posted on August 30, 2015 by

It is that time of the year again: The annual Australian Costumers’ Ball. The nineteenth to be exact. It is the time when I get to plan and make a new costume. I have been a bit slack this year. In my heyday, I was making almost nineteen costumes a year (for myself and family…

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Doctor Jack & Other Tales

Posted on August 29, 2015 by

The Adventures of Viola Stewart are now available as separate ebooks – Three Shorts, Doctor Jack – or in paperback compilation from Amazon, Smashwords, Barnes & Noble, Kobo  

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Researching the Bottom of an Iceberg

Posted on August 26, 2015 by

Earnest Hemmingway had a theory. He called it the Iceberg Theory: Writing is like an iceberg: the reader only reads the tip of the story’s background. Most of the work, maybe 90% of the iceberg, is hidden. This ballast consists of story research, character history, plot background and is the writer’s (and characters’) secret world.…

Researching the Bottom of an Iceberg was originally published on karen j carlisle

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Website Updates

Posted on August 24, 2015 by

Welcome, Dear Reader, to my updated website. All the info is still here, albeit slightly shuffled around. I have consolidated some pages to save on clicking to get information. If I have forgotten anything or there are any glitches, please let me know.  

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Salisbury Writers’ Festival Wrap Up

Posted on August 23, 2015 by

Getting up early on the weekend is always a battle; yesterday was not so arduous. I was off the the Salisbury Writers’ Festival. I tottered to the car, bleary eyed, thankful I was getting a lift. Once there I sniffed out the tea station for some caffeine, searched for fellow members of my writers’ group…

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A Change of Location

Posted on August 19, 2015 by

original post: http://karencarlisle.purplefiles.net/2015/08/19/a-change-of-location/ Another few chapters down. Our heroes have left the (relative) safety of the Department of Curiosities and are currently in dirigible-flight to far flung destinations but, sadly,  not to our heroine’s country of choice. So now I get … Continue reading →

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Blooming Lovely: Fashion and the Suffragette Movement

Posted on August 12, 2015 by

Originally posted on Cogpunk Steamscribe:
The Bloomer Outfit in 1850 Short Story: Contrary to logic, Amelia Bloomer didn’t invent the item of clothing known as bloomers. Bloomers were invented by Elizabeth Smith Miller, herself a civil rights supporter from a…

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