One of those ever-popular media stories about writers is the ‘Books that Changed Me’ feature. Writers are asked to name outstanding books in their reading memory that have wrought some deep change. Often they name the great classics: War and …
Melbourne Book Launch of my new work Imperfect on 9th February at 3pm, Readings bookstore in St Kilda. Please come!…
https://leekofman.com.au/events/book-signing-at-eds-editions-2/
The Brisbane Book Launch of my new work Imperfect is on 21st January at 6:30pm, Avid Reader bookshop. Bookings are essential.…
https://leekofman.com.au/events/book-signing-at-eds-editions/
To Know Place: Guest Post by Cassandra Atherton
I am a terrible traveller: I get motion sickness, I’m a germophobe, I always pack too much stuff, I melt down when I can’t get wifi and I lose things at inopportune moments. So, I’ve often asked myself whether I …
Re-drafting in Isolation: Guest Post by Angela Meyer
At a crucial stage of writing my debut novel, A Superior Spectre, I travelled to the Scottish isles of Islay and Jura. I had been to Scotland three times already, but on this occasion I wanted to experience the …
Fifty Shades of Self
One of the first questions I ask myself when I begin a new creative non-fiction work, short- or long-form, is existential in nature (and stolen from Shakespeare). To be or not to be? Am I going to appear in my …