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I'm not a mother. I haven't experienced what it is to create a human being inside you and release it into the wild world. I haven't watched a first step, or heard a first word. I haven't waved a child goodbye on their first day of school. I haven't had all the joys and heartaches that come with making and fostering a life. Before you start wondering, no, this isn't a blog post on the latest Mark...
When my first book, Three Things About Daisy Blue came out, I worked in a book shop. A fairly high profile book shop in a fairly small city. In the book world in Hobart people knew who I was. We're a pretty small community. I'd say “hello” to fellow booksellers in the street. They'd say “hello” to me. Many of them were actually good mates. There's no anonymity in a small booktown. So, when Daisy...
When a very dear writer friend of mine asked me to go with her to the Romance Writers of Australia 2011 conference, my first thought was, naturally, “But, honey, I'm not a romance writer ...”. After all, I don't write bodice-rippers. I write gothic novels about shapeshifters, and books about friendship, set in Bali. There are no heaving bosoms or chiselled biceps in my books. There are no men named...
I have always had absolute confidence in the future of our planet in the hands of the next generation. I used to work in a high school and my last job was as the YA manager of a book shop. The teenagers I've had the privilege to meet in both these jobss have never failed to astonish me with their passion, wit and engagement with the world around them. Which is why I have always been a bit perplexed...
I think you can tell a lot about a person by the fictional character they most identify with. A girl who feels a deep connection with Elizabeth Bennett might be an independent woman who's hiding a secret hopeless romantic inside. A boy who read Harry Potter and couldn't believe how much Ron Weasley was like him is likely to be a slightly geeky slacker with a phobia of spiders and a crush on his best...
