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This months book club is discussing Jon Bauer’s Rocks in the Belly. Unfortunately the file was too big to hear all of it, so you come in just after the intro and we’re talking about how short stories can turn into novels. Listen below or download here (right click and choose ‘Save Target As…’ or ‘Save…
Today, at 5:45pm on ABC Statewide radio, Barry Nicholls and I will haivng our first on-air bookclub discussion. We’re talking about Jennifer Mills and her book Gone. I asked Jen to answer some questions for me, leading up to this afternoons chat and here she is: 1) Where did the idea for Gone come from?…
Do any of you know this bloke? He’s the local ABC presenter for all of WA ‘cept Perth. Cute kids huh? Well, Barry and I, we’ve put our heads together and come up with a great idea. We’re starting a Book Club on the radio! Now I can’t let too many details out of the…
Writing Do you start with an idea and develop it from there or do you start with the characters? I start with a combination of idea and characters. I love to take a character and her family out of their normal lives and plunge her (and them) into an unexpected situation, and the plot follows…
A quick reminder that the book club with Monica McInerney is on tomorrow at 3pm WA time, 6pm Vic, NSW, Tassy time, 5pm QLD time and 4.30pm for the NT. There are some instructions in the chat room – all you have to do to get there, is click on the link that says ‘chat…
Next Friday, the 25th of Feb, at 3pm Western Australian time, will be a very special time for me! I’ll be welcoming Monica McInerney to our book club. What makes this so very special, it that I’ve loved and admired Monica’s work from the moment I opened The Alphabet Sisters. Since then I’ve read every…
I’m thrilled to announce that Monica McInerney will be joing us for the Book Club, this month! She’ll be sitting in Dublin, freezing and maybe watching snow fall, as we’re sweltering and cursing (or enjoying) the hot weather summer weather! At this stage, we haven’t set a date for the Book Club, but it will…
We had a great time discussing Nicole Alexander’s book, yesterday. I thought you might be interested in where I was sitting, while we were all chatting! I had my friend, Carolyn sitting alongside me, we had a couple of coffees and we watched the tiny tugs push out to sea, a huge ship! It was…
Book club meeting at 10:00am WST to discuss The Bark Cutters by Nicole Alexander. More info: A week before we meet, could you email me any questions for the author. On the day as we start, I will put up the first question and the author will answer. Once she has done this, then I’ll open it…