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Are readers really necessary?
Now don’t get offended – I can’t think of an author who doesn’t LOVE to have readers. Naturally! But… When I get together online with other writers, it becomes apparent to me that there are two kinds of author. One kind tends to ask, on online forums, ‘What kind of book will readers BUY?’. The…
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From beyond the grave…
Do you believe in life after death? When her musician husband Orpheus disappears from a party boat in Sydney Harbour and is later found drowned, Eurydice goes through all the usual stages of grief. Disbelief, blame, anger, withdrawal. And then finally, she decides to find him. But how do you go about finding someone who…
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A novelist, a do-gooder, a bus driver and a hitman’s sister walk into a bar…
Well, kind of, and that’s The Point of Us. A novel about what happens when the rug’s pulled out from under your feet. When you think you know who you are and where you’re going, and then, suddenly, you don’t. Terentia’s agent’s just rejected her latest book; he says she’s missed the zeitgeist. Paul, a…
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Funny, sexy and published!
It’s 531 AD. Justinian and his ex-prostitute Empress, Theodora, rule the Eastern Roman Empire. But fate is notoriously fickle. In this sophisticated, dangerous world, you can be Emperor one day and a blinded, nose-less beggar the next. Which is why Anastasia, successful ex-courtesan of Constantinople, has no interest in politics. Instead, she intends to spend…
Embrace your inner strange…
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