Sara Foster joins me today from W.A. to discuss her latest release SHALLOW BREATH. There is nothing quite like sinking your teeth into a well researched novel and you can be assurred that with Sara's latest offering the reader will be rewarded with a quality work of fiction interwoven with fact. Here Sara talks about digging [...]
Well I'm back at my desk - sort of. After 4.5 weeks touring and the odd Absolution Creek event since we're at the pointy end of the year on-property with cattle sales and harvest happening. Today, friend, News Ltd journo and soon-to-be Australian Women's Weekly star Caroline Overington talks about her new book. 'Sisters of [...]
Today, Ian Park visits. Some of you may have already read A Youth Not Wasted, his highly enjoyable memoir-cum-autobiography of his outback experiences as a young man. I've already previously profiled the book, however in speaking with Ian some months ago I really wanted to hear from him personally and he graciously agreed. In reading A Youth [...]
My new novel, Absolution Creek will be released this September and I'm excited to be sharing the cover for the first time. Many a meeting and discussion was held as Random House and I discussed the merits of marketing this next book. Rural Literature readers like their book covers to reflect the content, (which is [...]
If you're looking for a non-fiction rural read then Liz Harfull's Women of the Land may be for you. Liz is an award-winning journalist and Churchill Fellow. She grew up on a small farm near Mount Gambier in South Australia, which has been in the family since the early 1860s. Liz trained as a journalist on a [...]
Jaye Ford is an internationally-selling Australian suspense author whose first novel, Beyond Fear, was the highest selling debut crime novel in Australia in 2011. Scared Yet? Was released in Australia in March. Between them, the two novels will be translated into eight languages. Jaye is a former print, radio and television journalist and the first [...]
The Sydney Writer's Festival has now finished however what a fabulous event! An ecletic group of authors and commentators gathered for the two week 'gig' which celebrated the very best of all things bookish. By the queues many a reader was eager to listen to their favourite authors talk about their latest releases, discuss world [...]
Anything you can play on a veranda, you know, without electricity, dirt music. Winton is so adept at descriptive prose a reader quickly understands that a major character in Dirt Music is the landscape, the sea and desert of Western Australia. If you love narratives of our ancient land, Australia, then this book is hard [...]
Welcome to week three of Writing Fundamentals. For those of you who are new to the craft of writing, I really hope Ive opened a window into this exciting world. For readers who are old hands perhaps youve been reminded of some technical aspects that may be worth considering in future works. During the last [...]