Shortlisted!
Surprised – and ludicrously happy – to find that Elizabeth Macarthur has been shortlisted for the Ashurst Business Literature Prize. Some info about the prize, according to the website: Launched in 2004 by Blake Dawson and the State Library of NSW, the $30,000 Ashurst Business Literature Prize is acknowledged as Australia’s most important award for…
Random Thoughts About Author Talks
People are generous. My author talk at ‘Clunes on Sunday’ was chaired by a woman who had inherited her farm from her mother, who had inherited it from her own mother. She told me that mine was the first book she’d read in twenty years and that she’d enjoyed it very much. She also said…
Speaking as an author…
I was afraid, when I began to do author talks, that someone would take me to task about this dubious fact, or that poorly argued inference. I thought they might interrogate me about my sources, or debate the validity of some of my suppositions. It hasn’t happened. Not yet, anyway. What I AM constantly being…
My Wheeler Centre Guest Post
In which I talk to the nice people at The Wheeler Centre about deadlines, dead ponies and derivative bush ballads written from deepest suburbia. I have ALWAYS wanted to do one of these Q&As. I made my teenage son read it, to show him how hilariously funny I am. He remained unconvinced…