‘I am, at heart, a gentleman,’ drawled the iconic German movie star. A century ago, Marlene Dietrich was taking liberties: she wore well-cut men’s suits when this was considered insolent. She took lovers, of both sexes. She was disobliged, and …
The writer laid bare
Creative nonfiction – the new black?
I discovered creative nonfiction only at 31, accidentally, and first as a writer rather than a reader. This was Writers Victoria’s fault. I had been in Australia four years by then. I had three fiction books published in Israel, but …
The ‘hows’ of collaborative writing: A guest post by Anthony Morris
The novel The Hot Guy started out as a joke. My co-author Mel Campbell and I are both film reviewers, and we often go together to preview screenings as part of our job. One day we started talking, jokingly, about …
And More on Failure
Last month I blogged about the importance of failure for writers arguing that failure is (unfortunately…) an intrinsic, and healthy, part of the writing process. In my experience at least, feeling like I was a failure while I wrote my …
A wonderful article in The Age about my friend and mentor Peter Bishop who just launched an imprint of books by ‘literary writers’ with Ventura Press. The Dangerous Bride is in there too. Read it here.…
Bringing the dead to life: A guest post by Kelly Gardiner
I write about dead people.
Not ghosts. At least, not so far. I write fiction set in the past. It’s not the smartest career move, to be honest, but apparently I can’t help it. Historical fiction requires years of meticulous …