Author Archives: susan

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 →

  Yesterday I beguiled a train trip to and from Melbourne – a bit less than 3 hours – with Withering -by-Sea: A Stella Montgomery Intrigue by Judith Rossell. As you can see from the shiny circle on the cover, … Continue reading →

On Sunday 12th July, Verity Sparks and the Scarlet Hand was launched at Buda Historic Home and Garden in Castlemaine. Claire Hutchison, the administrator, had very kindly offered Buda as a venue for the launch –  it was the perfect … Continue reading →

I am sure that the odd mixture of ideas in my head is a result of the odd mixture of books (all from the bargain box I scored at the local library sale) and newspapers and magazines I’m currently reading. … Continue reading →

I was going to write about the novel I’ve just finished – Margaret Drabble’s The Garrick Year – but got waylaid as I looked in various picture files on  my desk- top. Somehow the koala pictures got into a file … Continue reading →

I have been reading the new Robert Macfarlane, Landmarks. An intense language experience. Something that I first realised many years ago, when I was first beginning to write as an adult, is that specific vocabularies, the real words for things, … Continue reading →