Publishers
Allen & Unwin — Allen & Unwin is Australia's leading independent publisher and has been voted "Publisher of the Year" nine times including the inaugural award in 1992 and seven times since 2000 including 2010.
On writing When We Have Wings — Allen & Unwin's newsletter on writing
Media
News & Interviews.
Interview on Booktopia — 10 Terrifying Questions.
Belletrista - Celebrating Women Writers from Around the World — WHEN WE HAVE WINGS listed in Issue 12
Jetstar Magazine — WHEN WE HAVE WINGS is featured in the July issue
Interview in the Herald-Sun - Claire's Dream Takes Flight — A well-written piece by Blanche Clark
Review in The Weekend Australian July 30
Corbett's prose has the clarity, luminosity and beauty of a well-cut diamond, especially when she describes dreamlike aerial visions. When We Have Wings is a confident and challenging debut; this flight of fancy deserves to soar.
Q&A with Shearers Bookstore — Some nice questions on genre
Meet Claire Corbett — An interview with author Rowena Cory Daniells
Books & Writing
The Reading Room - Brigita Ozolins — The Reading Room is an exhibition about the wonderful world of books and reading. The gallery is transformed into a warm den of carpets, plush furniture and reading lamps. Lining the room are literally thousands of books...
Indigenous Literacy Foundation — The Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) is an initiative and charity of The Australian Book Industry drawing on its diverse range of expertise, skills and resources.
Stella vs Miles: Women Writers and Literary Value in Australia — Brilliant article especially on treatment of genre-crossing by male and female writers.
The Varuna Writer-A-Day app — Link to me reading from WHEN WE HAVE WINGS for Varuna's Writer-A-Day app
The Stella Prize — the Stella Prize will celebrate and recognise Australian women's writing, encourage a future generation of women writers, and significantly increase the readership for books by women.
Flight
JPL — Space, Stars, Mars, Earth, Planets and More - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Natsumi Hayashi — Natsumi's wonderful photos of herself, flying.
Winged Robot is Time Machine to Origins of Flight — "Here's what we know about the evolution of flight: By about 150 million years ago, the forests were filled with flying — or perhaps just gliding — dinosaurs like Archaeopteryx, possibly similar to the ancestor of modern birds. ..."
First Flyers over Sydney — The first wingsuit flight over Sydney
Amazing 250km/hr Flight — This really gives you the feeling of what it's like to fly
- Flower City in the Sky — These fantasy city gardens in the sky remind me of the SkyNation party in Wings.
Science
Dava Sobel — Science writer Dava Sobel's site and blog
Science Not Fiction - Discover Magazine — our current generation faces the very real possibility of being asked to decide if human enhancement via technological augmentation and genetic engineering is something we want to pursue. A question already moving beyond the abstract realm of bioethics an
Posts on Other Sites
Links to blogs I've written for other people
The 'Write' Tools - Damon Young — So, how to clear the way for these elves to appear, what to do to welcome them?
On Reading Like A Writer - Ian Irvine's Blog — There is something to be said about the kind of reader you become once you start writing seriously
The Story of My Book - Readings Blog — A look at the difficulty of staying ahead of the science while writing WHEN WE HAVE WINGS.
On Writing the Land from the Sky - Fleur McDonald's blog — It became clear to me that to love flying means also loving the land.
Review of Catch-22 on Kill Your Darlings — They have a right to do anything we can't stop them from doing.