Author Archives: susan

I bought this beautiful book at The Book Grocer for $6.00 (!!!!) It’s a Faber and Faber hard-cover, with a lovely stiff paper dust jacket, illustrated end-papers and black and white illustrations by Stanley Donwood and beautiful text – prose … Continue reading →

I have had an excellent weekend. A really, really excellent weekend. Perhaps it was the sunshine. The birds and the bees and the flowers and the trees are all singing as one with The Beatles – ‘Here comes the sun…’ … Continue reading →

I’ve just finished Karen Joy Fowler’s Booker short-listed We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, and from the outset I knew. It was right there on the cover. “One of the best twists in years.” So what is this twist? I … Continue reading →

  I was recently asked to help judge a fiction prize at the junior campus of my local high school. Sixteen students from years 7, 8 and 9 submitted pieces ranging from half to eleven pages. The winner and runner-up … Continue reading →

Revising and editing at the present. I work at the Bookroom 2 days a week, and I’m aiming  to work on my novel 4 days a week – which leaves me one day off. Today was the day, and my … Continue reading →

I’m in love with this book and I haven’t finished it yet. I’m deliberately not finishing it because I love it so much. Does that make sense? Probably not! I have only fifty pages to go. Perhaps tonight, instead of … Continue reading →

If you only know Morris Gleitzman’s for his funny books – like Blabber Mouth, Misery Guts, Toad Rage and so on – you will maybe be surprised by this series. Soon is the fifth book (the others are Once, Then, … Continue reading →

My sessions today at Text Marks the Spot, the Bendigo Writer’s Festival Schools event, were great fun. Here’s my list of recommended books – starting, of course, with my own!                     … Continue reading →

I am giving a couple of sessions at ‘Text Marks the Spot’, the Schools Day held by La Trobe University as part of the Bendigo Writer’s Festival next weekend. One is an author talk, and the other is called ‘Green’s … Continue reading →