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Josephine Pennicott on Obstacles and Inspirations
Josephine Pennicott is a multi-award winning crime writer who has won the Scarlet Stiletto and (twice) the wonderfully named Kerry Greenwood Domestic Malice Prize. Jo has also written a dark fantasy trilogy, Circle of Nine. Today she reflects on writing obstacles and inspirations.Thank you Ian, for inviting me to submit to your Blog. Those of us lucky enough to know Ian…
Jason Nahrung on Writing Joys and Frustrations
Jason Nahrung has been a newspaper journalist for more than two decades. He's also a fiction editor, judge of speculative fiction, and writer of darkly themed tales including the supernatural thriller, The Darkness Within. Today, Jason muses on the joys and frustrations of being a writer.It’s not you, it’s us.It has been an ... interesting past couple of months. My wife,…
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…
My Tortuous Road to Publication
I’m not sure exactly when I had the idea of writing a fantasy novel, though it must have been sometime after July 1977, because that’s when I bought and read Terry Brooks’ The Sword of Shannara.It wasn’t the story that inspired me, though. I’d read a huge amount of fantasy by then and found the plot to be too close to The…
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 also…