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Preview my newest baby…
I’ve been working on Shame (on and off) for a long time, and now, finally, I’m ready to let it go out into the cruel world. Shame is a literary mystery about sin, secrets and a guilty conscience….well, let me put it in a nutshell for you. Sisters Alix and Kate run an agency specialising…
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The naked novelist
That’s right, I’m sitting here writing in the nude, and that’s NOT because I’m trying to get in the mood to write erotica…but because it’s fucking 35 degrees here! And I can tell you, it’s not a pretty sight (thankfully, at least half of it is under the desk). Anyway, I might have mentioned that…
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The key to good writing? Fewer words!
Right now, I’m editing my new novel Shame, for the billionth time, and I notice – as I always do when I’m editing – that I’m cutting. As a writer, you get seduced by words. You want to describe a thing, you want to make people feel it, see it, know it. So you pile…
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Writer’s Blues
Spring comes ugly to the pinoaks in Canberra, Australia. Walking my sister’s little dog down the street – stopping every three houses so she can pee and scratch in the fallen leaves – I pass under their tattered canopy, rust-brown leaves dripping like beggar’s rags from their old man branches. It’s October – spring here,…
Embrace your inner strange…
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