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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 -
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 -
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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.
Peter the Koala being cared for at the Koala Hospital, Port Macquarie. -
Blog postYes, it has been a long time since I last wrote here. So much has happened. I have filled up three diaries already and it isn’t over yet. My first book of the memoirs project Regret Horizon seemed to disappear over the Regret Horizon and into the mists of past time. Where I thought this was a final volume, turns out there will need to be at least one more, to take us from the end of Regret Horizon to the actual genuine real end, and we know there will be one. It is one which I can foresee an<
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Blog postHonestly and truly, I don’t know what led me to think I could write this memoir, edit it and publish it by the beginning of 2019. Now it is almost May and I have so far only managed to edit and rewrite the first opening chaper – or maybe it’s a Forward – about a hundred times. Now I realise I have to write an Afterward. Or is it an Afterword? Both, I guess. So I have spent weeks angsting about whether or not to send the current draft out for comments but I haven’t done it. Indecision and proc
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Blog postGerman/American journalist and writer Michael Scott Moore had authored a novel and a history of surfing, Sweetness and Blood, when he received a grant from the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting to carry out research for a book on Somali piracy in late 2011.
Somali Pirates use bizarrely wrecked boats This is the kind of thing even a truly daft anthropologist wouldn’t try, but he seems to have had an even greater degree of belief in his own invulnerability.
Since Somali pirat -
Blog postIn my last post I mentioned that I was seeking permission to use two lines from a country and Western song sung by Ernest Tubb in 1959 as an opener for my memoir. I still haven’t heard anything back from the copyright holders, a large transnational organisation which holds copyright on a huge number of songs.
This has led me to further musings on copyright as a concept and practice. There are many countries in the world which appear to have no copyright laws or if they do, they don’t -
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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