June 12, 2007
Homemade meat pies, Via flickr
Australian meat pies are a scarce resource in the United States. We can order them from the Australian bakery in Georgia, and we normally do for ANZAC Day or Christmas. But my wife, a talented cook, decided to have a go at making home-made hand-sized meat pies. They were awesome. They looked so good out of the oven that I happy-snapped them, and posted the picture up to flickr for my friends to see.
I got an email today asking if the image could be used in an Australian Recipe book. I asked my wife, and she said sure.
This isn't the first time this has happened, I publish fairly widely at different internet sites, and have done since 1997. For instance my Australian Flying Corps website has been around since 97 in one form or another and gets a lot of queries. One article from it on Arthur Cobby ended up in the RAAF's Fundamentals of Australian Aerospace Power which was published a few years ago. That site has also led me to have a copyright run-in with the Australian War Memorial where I ended up quoting the 1968 copyright act to the AWM.
Because of publishing on the internet I have had requests to have articles published in books, manuals, magazines, even a request to be interviewed on a Perth radio station on the 1804 Rebellion (which fell through). It is all unpaid of course, but then, I publish on the internet unpaid too.
It is fun and I get a great deal of enjoyment from it.
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