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How stories are made
“The story does not exist as a story until the writer makes it.” Helen Garner A story is not lying there on the ground like a pebble, waiting to be picked up. Reasons to love Helen Garner, or why a … Continue reading
Here is the news….
Where to start? Haven’t had a chance to catch my breath, hence dearth of blog posts…apologies. Well, let’s start with last weekend at the Byron Bay Writers’ Festival. I hear that previous festivals have been waterlogged and muddy but, hey, … Continue reading
Posted in books; authors; Australia, BrizVegas; home; travel; life, My Hundred Lovers, Queensland, recto-vaginal fistula; Dr Catherine Ham;lin; fistula clinic; A Better Woman; Petja Grafenauer; Polish translation, writing
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My Hundred Lovers Book Launch
Everyone welcome to come along to Avid Reader Bookshop in BrizVegas on May 30 to see Matthew Condon launch My Hundred Lovers. It’s been a long time in the making this book — you would never know it from such … Continue reading
My beautiful new cover
My Hundred Lovers Out in June. I’ll be doing a gig at Emundi in the Sunshine Coast hinterland, a library on the Gold Coast, writer’s festivals in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Mudgee and Byron Bay and a few other things (Avid … Continue reading
Page proofing MY HUNDRED LOVERS
What a strange business it is, page proofing a book. The hard work is done (the writing that is — I always find editing easy in comparison. I am ruthless: cut, cut, cut). For the first time you are able … Continue reading
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But for me successful writing has usually been a case of having found good conditions for real, effortless concentration. – Ted Hughes Aint that the truth.
A name is a name is a name….
So sue me. I said, ages ago, that I was going to call the protaganist/heroine/main character of my new novel My Hundred Lovers: the autobiography of a body Susan. Now, all my closest friends know the reasons for this. It … Continue reading
Hooray, hooray, frabjous day!
Wills and Kate’s weddin’ weren’t the only thing happening round these parts on Friday. This little author finished her book! Yay! Yippee! Hoorah, hooray! Everyone thought that when I bought my bottle of French champagne it was to toast the … Continue reading