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This article is part of a series. Read the previous article here > We had an interview with a Canberra Times Journalist the other day. It was a friendly over-the-email kind of interview. In fact we’ve had heaps of interviews lately where we have to talk about the novel, the story, what happens and what’s it’s hidden meaning and stuff like that. I have to admit,...
This article is part of a series. Read the previous article here > Michelle and I have a very exciting event coming up soon at Caulfield Racecourse (Vic) with an audience of 300 women. It’s tricky to be sparky and ‘on’ at 9.00am, but we manage to do it somehow. It’s a difficult juggling act, public speaking. Although I know we’re there to entertain, I am...
Cate Kendall - How Two Such Very Different People Write Together
by Cate Kendall on 28 May 2009
This article is part of a series. Read the previous article here > Many people ask us how two such very different people write together. I believe it’s our differences that make our end product so good. We sit down together at the beginning of the process and brainstorm. Who is our main character? What’s her location, her feeling about herself and most importantly, what...
This article is part of a series. Read the previous article here > So more about the structural edit on a novel. This would melt the average person’s brain, but years of experience teaches you to suck it up. As I eluded to on my fourth blog; Michelle and I submit what we believe to be our best work. We’ve read, checked, edited and re-drafted. We can’t find a darn thing...
This article is part of a series. Read the previous article here > What a great radio interview with Radio Bay FM just the other day. Bay FM is Geelong’s light rock and pop kind of station. It seems to be very popular. Michelle and I were on the morning show. The presenters were very up-beat and lovely – Paula and Laurie – it’s tricky on radio because we only...
This article is part of a series. Read the previous article here > Deadline for book three looming! It’s really tricky timing actually that our third novel is due at the exact time our second (VERSACE SISTERS) is released. We are at the very end stage where the story structure is completed, the start, middle and end are all sewn up and now we just do a lot of cosmetic surgery...
This article is part of a series. Read the previous article here > After Michelle and I played the glamour girls on the Gold Coast, we were the entertainment at one of our most favourite places. High Societea in Bulimba, Queensland. Kathy Heath runs this most delightful tea-house. The presentation of the space, first of all, is completely divine. It's the ultimate in little...
This article is part of a series. Read the previous article here > Michelle and I got to have a few days off from the madness of parenting just recently (we have four kids each and I for one, don’t mind a break on the odd occasion). As part of the VERSACE SISTERS book tour we were invited to be the guest speakers at Palazzo Versace on the Gold Coast. I can tell you there were a few...
What a tremendous week it's been. We've been very frantically promoting VERSACE SISTERS whilst busily finishing our third novel, which is due to land on our publisher's desk in three weeks time. The pressure is on. Michelle and I enjoyed guest-speaking at a delightful lunch at the Canadian Bay Hotel in Mt Eliza, Victoria, on Tuesday of last week. One hundred and fifty women came...
Cate Kendall is actually writing team Lisa Blundell and Michelle Hamer who first met as private school mums over a latte in mid-2005. As they sipped coffee and poked fun at the posh mums of the private school world it dawned on them that this topic could make a great book. The girls worked together extremely well from the first day. As the novel progressed the two created a system where Lisa would...
