Vale Inga Clendinnen
Inga Vivienne Clendinnen AO, FAHA, author, historian, anthropologist and academic died yesterday aged 82. What a sad loss to the Australian life of the mind. Clendinnen’s sharp insights and beautiful prose were (for me) best displayed in Dancing with Strangers: Europeans and Australians at First Contact (2003, Text Publishing). This small but perfectly formed exploration…
Had a coffee with my publisher yesterday…
Wow. It feels unbelievably good to say/write that out loud. After much deliberation and a lengthy discussion with my agent (ok, yes, it was over lunch but we both drank water – honest!) I decided to go with Text Publishing. In the end I was lucky enough to receive seven generous offers for the manuscript….
Bookmarks
Are you a bookmarker? Or a page corner turner? Perhaps you’re a memory artist, flicking through the pages until you are back to where you left off. Of course if you’re the e-reader type then you have no choice – it’s the little flag or it’s nothing. But even without the flag the e-reader remembers. …