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Conjuring Nonsense by Sam Bowring
Sam Bowring is a writer and standup comedian living in Sydney. He has written for TV, including Rove and The Comedy Channel, as well as stage plays, books for children, and fantasy. Sam's fantasy series, The Broken Well Trilogy, is published by Orbit. Today, Sam is channelling loose thoughts on fantasy names.For me, one of the hardest parts of writing…
George Ivanoff on Setting Novels in a Virtual World
George Ivanoff has written more than 50 books for children and teenagers, both fiction and non-fiction, novels, short stories (including a Doctor Who story), articles and school readers. He also moonlights as an actor and has been in numerous productions including Neighbours. His teen SF novel, Gamer's Quest, won a 2010 Chronos award. Today he's talking about writing novels set…
On Reading Like a Writer – Claire Corbett
Claire Corbett has worked as a government policy adviser on water, genetically modified organisms and child and family health. She has had essays and stories broadcast on Radio National and published in Cinema Papers, Picador New Writing and The Sydney Morning Herald, among others. She completed the MA Writing (UTS) in 1997 and a Varuna Mentorship in 2000. When We Have Wings, her first novel, was published…
Karen Brooks on Giving Birth to a Book
Is there anything Karen Brooks hasn't done? An academic known internationally for her work on popular culture, an award-winning teacher who's also written eight novels and an acclaimed non-fiction book, Consuming Innocence – Popular Culture and Our Children, Karen is also a social commentator who appears regularly in print media, radio and TV. Oh, and among many other things she's…
Jessica Shirvington on The Murky Waters of a First Draft
First drafts! I hate them. They make me feel as though I'm a fraud, not a writer, and I wouldn't even show one of mine to my dog. Or as Hemingway put it, 'The first draft of anything is shit!'Jessica Shirvington's first three novels – all urban fantasy – have been published in Australia in the past year, and her…