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Blog postI discussed previously my shock at discovering that some enterprising persons were taking out-of-copyright classics and turning them into new publications on Amazon. The example I discussed was a Jack London book, but now I have found any number of classic cookbooks which are appearing on Amazon for sale, in facsimile editions without any mention of who is in fact selling these books. Some are pretty good – the facsimile of American Cookery, 1796, which seems to be a Dover book reprinted from
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Blog postI’ve attached myself to a number of author’s groups lately, a couple on Facebook and some semi-professional commentary services (which you pay for). To my surprise the Facebook groups have been a great source of interest and support, in a strangely tangled way. One of the groups often publishes reports by Amazon authors showing how … Continue reading Lockdown: writers and readers, isolation and creativity.
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Blog postI read all kind of books all the time but this one was even more of an outlier than usual. I won’t go into why but I wanted to read the original text of Jack London’s The People of the Abyss, about life in the slums of East London in the early 1900s. Jack London is one of those writers who people over fifty think they might have heard of. His books were mostly published between 1903 and 1914, and are remarkable for being based on the author’s first hand research in the places he wrote about.
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Blog postAs readers will know I have been grappling with several volumes of memoirs over the past few years. Most of my reading has been in the same genre and I’ve written a few reviews of books I have enjoyed (and some I haven’t). However with the current horror show I have been drawn to some other works which seem prescient of what is happening now.
Cover: Happy Land 2020 OJ Modjeska writes narrative non-fiction about horrible things. She is best know for her aircrash book Catastrophe in
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Blog postUncanny Valley: a Memoir. Anna Wiener. Farrer, Straus and Giroux. New York, 2020.
I’ve been trawling through the world of memoir for several years now, with degrees of determination. I’ve written a lot about it in various posts on this blog. I have issues around “truth”, pretence and ethics. So many novels are memoirs in disguise. I love the sense of unvarnished, or at least only once coated, reality that comes with an honest-to-goodness memoir, as far as that can ever really exist. T -
Blog postThe new technologies of communication were supposed to open the literary landscape to everything and make all things possible, but instead the world of writing/reading has been sinking ever deeper into a bog or maybe it’s a quicksand. There needs to be a new way of reading and writing, assuming there is still time in this bizarre and quite possibly doomed century.
Not so long ago I assumed that soon writers and readers would be able to meet each other wherever they chose, around whate -
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Blog postWhen I began to think about the cover for Revolutionary Baby the poster image by Nina Vatolina came to mind. I knew this image but I couldn’t recall where I had seen it. I thought it could be modified easily with title and author information inserted where the Russian text was. It was easy to find via the Big G. It is in the Tate Modern collection, under the following title:
Fascism – The Most Evil Enemy of Women. Everyone to the Struggle Against Fascism, August 1941; Nina Vatol -
Blog postSo I think this is the final edit. The whole manuscript is printed and I am about to get into it with a red pen. I couldn’t say how many edits it has had, that is not a meaningful question. I edit all the time as I go along, and I try to keep a version in my files periodically in case I need to go back. I can see why people employ an editor, if only because it costs so much money and you wouldn’t want to mess around with something that already has had so much expensive attention. Maybe I’ll <
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Blog postSo after weeks of stifling heat, many days over 40 Celsius (104 F), ravaging bushfires, impenetrable smoke, unavoidable dust and ash inhalation causing nausea and headaches, constant obsessive anxiety looking at bushfire maps and a state of acute mourning for the losses, especially the wildlife, we now have buckets of rain, floods, drinking-water fears and … Continue reading News from the Writing Zone
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Blog postI posted this on my site for my children’s book The Priceless Princess (thepricelesspricess.com) which is about the need for protection for wild creatures and their natural homes. Although the Kingdom of Hullabaloo is an imaginary place, the creatures who live there are Australian – snakes, owls, bilbies, crocodiles and others. Because the present situation … Continue reading The Bushland is Inhabited Too!
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Blog postPlease visit the new Page on this site The Bushland is Inhabited Too! for thoughts and updates on the impact of wildfires on Australian wildlife. Although the Priceless Princess is set in an imaginary land, the animals and birds in the story are all Australian creatures. Please spare a thought for them in these times of terrible crisis for our bushland and help in any way you can.
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Blog postGo to the ABOUT page for information about how to purchase the print version . Paypal service will be restored shortly after a redesign of the purchase interface.
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Blog postSo many wonderful positive reviews I have been receiving for the Priceless Princess. I gave out a number of paperbacks as presents, or just for fun to people I valued, for their children. I didn’t ask anyone to send a review, so receiving them has been such a pleasure. I’ve been putting copies of the reviews on this website (See Reviews ). I was thrilled by Kristen’s suggestion. She said:
“I do hope you will write more for this age group. Quite frankly there is such ru -
Blog postClick on the tab above to read how the writing of the Priceless Princess came about.
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Blog postIn putting together the section on Animals and Birds in the Priceless Princess I have had to request permission to use a number of images because they are not in the public domain. Reproducing a photograph or drawing after a Google search is very easy but it is illegal to use any images other than those already located in the public domain, as in Wiki Commons and some other sources. So, I want to thank the great photographers who have agreed already (I will give them full attribution in the s
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Blog postThe Priceless Princess is available now as an e-book or in print/paperback. Go to the Page called “The Writing of the Priceless Princess” to find out more about the story, and to learn about the author and her grandchildren, who inspired it. Purchasing details are on the ABOUT page.
Special offer: purchase a signed copy with a personal message from this website posted anywhere in Australia for A$12.95.
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Blog postKeith Draws Click on the tab with this name on the banner above to read more about how the process of illustration worked for this book.
I needed a visual concept for the central character, Princess Sophie. My granddaughter Lulu is very blonde with blue eyes and pink skin. Pretty much what you would expect for a Princess. But I have another grand-daughter, Lulu’s cousin Lily, who has bright red hair and eyes that are brown but sometimes almost green. What an enterprising brave -
Blog postEastern Grey Wallaby with joey in pouch “Wildlife” is a word used to describe creatures – animals, birds, fish – who exist in their own right, in their own world, with their own rhythms and behaviours which have not been directed by human desires. Until around 8-10,000 years ago, all animal life was “wild” and we could say human life was “wild” as well. The process of domestication took existing creatures and, in various ways, changed them to suit the needs of humans. Some species seem
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