A Bit About Me And My Book

by Kerri Sackville on 5 May 2011

Why I decided to become a writer

My acting career never took off so I needed to find another career path. I can’t sing or dance, I don’t understand share trading, and I missed out on getting into medicine by one mark*, so writing seemed like the logical choice.

I heard that writers make tons of money**.

I’m always running late and knew that I would never be able to get to an office job on time. Far better to work from home with no set hours so that the only people who notice my lateness are my children (and... er... their teachers).

I once got 22/20 for a high school essay. It was widely rumoured that the two bonus marks were because the teacher wanted to sleep with me, but this did not deter me in the slightest from deciding to become a writer.

Why I decided to write a memoir of marriage and motherhood

I don’t know anything about history or philosophy or politics or science and I really don’t like doing research very much, so I figured a memoir was the way to go.

It seemed much easier to write a memoir of marriage and motherhood than to write a memoir of my life as a tree frog. Seeing as... you know... I’m not actually a tree frog.

I wanted to write a testimony to the beauty and strength of my marriage. That didn’t exactly pan out, but the intention was there***.

*okay, about 50 marks....

**I seem to have been mislead on that count.

***okay, so the intention wasn’t really there, but it would have been a pretty boring book otherwise

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After the birth of her first child in 1999, Kerri completed a BA in English and Linguistics, and returned to her first love, writing. She has worked as a copywriter and freelance writer for nine years, and in that time has written extensively for mainstream media and parenting magazines, including the Sydney Morning Herald, the Age, The Telegraph, Sunday Life magazine, the Child group of magazines, Littlies magazine (New Zealand) and Notebook magazine. Kerri also has a long-standing, humorous column in the Australian Jewish News, 'Life And Other Crises', in which she details the endless dramas of her domestic life.Kerri's stories are usually funny, occasionally deeply moving, and always highly personal, and cover everything from weight loss to friendship, sex, parenthood and grief.In May 2009 Kerri joined Twitter, and quickly built up a following of over 2000. She began blogging shortly afterwards at lifeandothercrises.blogspot.com, and in 2010 was shortlisted for Australasian Blogger of the Year. Kerri is also a regular contributor and popular figure on the enormously successful website Mamamia.com.As a blogger, Kerri has been interviewed several times on ABC radio, and has been profiled in the Sunday Magazine and Sunday Life magazine. She has been featured as a panellist at the Sydney Jewish Writers Festival 2010 and the Sydney Bloggers Festival 2010, and was recently named as one of Kidspot.com's Top 10 Bloggers.Kerri is married to Tony, a workaholic architect. They live in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney with their three children - a son aged 11, and two daughters aged nine and three - and their recalcitrant bunny rabbit.