What’s up world? Fantasy is the biggest-selling form of fiction. Yet the When Genres Attack team at Shearer’s Bookshop, Leichhardt, had to cancel their speculative fiction panel this week due to lack of interest? What the?
There are hundreds of self-help writing manuals on the book market, prescribing how writers should write. I’ve read my share of them, I even publish my own tips for writers on my website from time to time, because I want to save those writers further behind me on their writing…
I don’t often blog about the parts of my day I spend being a mum (wait, don’t leave! This isn’t a blog about motherhood!)… but today I’m going to share this much with you – it’s a bit of an invisible job. The meals I cook are eaten, the clothes…
What type of women are you, and what are you not? Different women respond to the same female character in different ways. Of course they do, because not all women are the same. So how do you write a realistic female character that will appeal to most women? Women are…
Get your calendar ready… Last month, I attended a literary cage fight hosted by Sophie Hamley at Shearer’s Bookshop in Leichhardt called “When Genres Attack!”. It was an inspiring evening of intellectual and insightful debate that prompted me to ask my readers whether genre should actually mean something to them…
In Today’s Genre-Sensitive Publishing World, Might George Orwell Be *gasp* Unreadable? Ever since ‘genre’ was invented (by Plato and Aristotle, no less, when they divided ancient Greek literature into drama, poetry or prose), theorists have philosophized about the concept of genre, evolving and expanding it such that, today, genre and…
