Tag Archives: book titles; Australian authors; Susan Johnson; My Hundred Lovers

Add your own lover!

Posted on February 26, 2013 by Susan

Inspired by the beautiful photographs that readers have sent me regarding their own hundred lovers, I’m inviting anyone who cares to send to me a pic of a lover, and I’ll post it here. And here’s the first pic, which Pam … Continue reading →

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On reviewing….

Posted on July 3, 2012 by Susan

Here’s the stinker I told you was coming….I hate to say I told you so, but…. I’m posting the two latest reviews because I think they clearly prove my point about reviewing, reading etc, in that both reviews say as … Continue reading →

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Book group notes: My Hundred Lovers

Posted on June 26, 2012 by Susan

My favourite quote of the day comes from Jonthan Franzen, quoting another writer friend of his, who always answers the question: “How autobiographical is your book?” with this: “About seventeen and a half per cent”. How autobiographical is your book? … Continue reading →

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The mayor and the book of love

Posted on June 21, 2012 by Susan

PRESS RELEASE MAYOR WILLIAMS TO LAUNCH BOOK OF LOVE It will be a mayoral discussion with a difference when Redlands Mayor, Karen Williams joins leading Brisbane author, Susan Johnson for the launch of the author’s newest, groundbreaking novel. Ms Johnson’s … Continue reading →

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Round up time…

Posted on June 19, 2012 by Susan

Sorry all, been a very busy bee, what with publication, launches, interviews, formally organising the Queensland people’s power literary awards into a more formal committee (the lovely Matt Condon, book-guru publicist and emerging author champ Alex Adsett, Stuart Cunningham from … Continue reading →

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Truth or dare

Posted on May 29, 2012 by Susan

Finally worked out how to link a PdF file — thanks to my Gen Y colleague Zara Monteith. Thank you Zara! Now I can link my Qweekend stories. Yay! Here’s a piece I wrote on the contested boundaries between fact … Continue reading →

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Sydney Writers Festival and The Circle Book Club

Posted on May 21, 2012 by Susan

Well, wasn’t the 2012 Sydney Writers Fesitval fantastic? Sydney glittered beneath our feet and all around us (literally: there was a glass section of floor at the Sebel at Walsh Bay where you could look straight down into the shining … Continue reading →

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My funny madeleine….

Posted on April 19, 2012 by Susan

You know about Proust and his madeleine, right? How in In Search of Lost Time the little cake, a wash of flour, butter and sugar in the mouth, brings back a whole world? That beautiful line, “The sight of the … Continue reading →

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Berkelouw Books, Eumundi, Noosa Hinterland, Queensland

Posted on April 15, 2012 by Susan

I know I look pained in this photograph but Friday 13th at Amanda’s beautiful Berkelouw Books was such fun. An amazing turnout of lively and interesting readers, mainly women, to talk about my Charmian Clift inspired BROKEN BOOK. Some really … Continue reading →

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Party like it’s 2005…..

Posted on March 21, 2012 by Susan

In old news I will be talking about not my new novel, My Hundred Lovers, or the one before that Life in Seven Mistakes, but the one published in 2005 inspired by the life of Charmian Clift. That would be … Continue reading →

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