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"Where do you get your ideas from?" Part One
A question I often get asked is 'Where do you get your ideas from?'
And it's a difficult question to answer on the spot. I tend to give a vague answer like 'oh, you know, they just come to me.'
Which - technically - that's true.
But it is a little more complicated and convoluted than that, and it does tend to take time for a story to mature to the point of being 'readable'.

Kylie Leane
Aug 24 min read
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Tea & Whiskers: A Novel Idea
A few weeks ago, I was asleep, and I presume I was in a deep sleep at about 2am in the morning.
Suddenly, I woke up, and I sat up. Charcoal tumbled off me.
It had hit me, the plotline of a novel inside a world that I had been sitting on for over a decade.

Kylie Leane
Jan 162 min read
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Tea & Whiskers: The AI Tool
So, I want to tell you all a little story about a time when computers weren't really used for art or graphic design, and it was really strange for anyone even comprehend that they could or would be used in the magnitude that they are now.

Kylie Leane
May 9, 20258 min read
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A Story-Teller
Once upon a time, here in Adelaide there was a place called Glenside Hospital. I can remember walking it's decrepit, depressing halls...

Kylie Leane
Apr 4, 20254 min read
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Rejection Again
I received another rejection from a publisher today.

Kylie Leane
Mar 25, 20251 min read
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Book One - Key: Prologue
David drove his small dagger beneath the cuirass of the Palace guard, watching as the man slowly stopped struggling against the hold of...

Kylie Leane
Mar 13, 202517 min read
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The Importance of Stories
But, I dolled myself up all pretty like, squared my shoulders, and marched through those doors, determined to find my seat!

Kylie Leane
Jan 28, 20233 min read
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An abundance of Books...
Television kinda bores me.
I've actually been going back and watching Law and Order from the year 2000.
That's like a time machine.

Kylie Leane
Sep 3, 20225 min read
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Aunty Kylie, you need to write more books...
When I was a little girl - about six years old - I had an imaginary land I would adventure too called 'A Land in the Clouds' ....

Kylie Leane
Aug 28, 20226 min read
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The Stories that Made Me: Yugioh
This morning I woke up to the news that Kazuki Takahashi - the creator Yugioh - has passed away....

Kylie Leane
Jul 8, 20225 min read
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New Release: Messages for the Minute
I am very excited to announce the New Release of Gwenneth Leane's newest edition to the KML Publishing catalog: Messages for the Minute!

Kylie Leane
Apr 6, 20221 min read
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Do Writer's Dream of Distant Planets?
Last night I was an observer to a really great sci-fi story. Fully fleshed out characters, settings and plot all rolled into a dream.

Kylie Leane
Nov 3, 20215 min read
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The Stories that Made Me: The Legends of Treasure Island
I first read Treasure Island when I discovered it amongst a stash of old books in our house....

Kylie Leane
Oct 31, 20213 min read
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The Stories that Made Me: Dante's Peak
There was once a movie that scared me as child, giving me nightmares about volcanoes - but I couldn't remember it...

Kylie Leane
Oct 14, 20214 min read
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19 Years Ago
I'm either going to be called super dedicated to one story or really crazy because I write myself into a loop trying to finish an epic quest

Kylie Leane
Oct 5, 20212 min read
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The Stories that Made Me: The Animals of Farthing Wood
Many, many years ago I went to England. It has remained the highlight of my life thus far...

Kylie Leane
Aug 3, 20213 min read
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Surge and the POV Problem
So, I have come upon a bit of a new quandary while writing Surge. As I sat at my cafΓ© today writing the next instalment....

Kylie Leane
Jun 21, 20214 min read
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The Stories that Made Me: Insektors
Insektors was years ahead of its time.
I adored this show.
I still do.
I think it is a work of art.

Kylie Leane
Jun 19, 20214 min read
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The Stories That Made Me: The Dreamstone
The first story we shall address is The Dreamstone...I think what drew me to it as a child was the simplicity of the story and worldbuilding

Kylie Leane
Jun 14, 20214 min read
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The Stories That Made Me
Here is something I have been pondering the past few days.
I am one of those people who can watch movies and tv-shows repeatedly...

Kylie Leane
Jun 9, 20212 min read
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