Gary Lonesborough's Blog, page 2
November 13, 2022
Dear Kylie
This piece was written for and performed at QUEERSTORIES in June 2021, thanks to Maeve Marsden. If you’d like to listen to the recording, here is a link:
293 Gary Lonesborough - Love Letter to Kylie - Maeve Marsden
Dear Kylie: A love l...
March 13, 2022
READY WHEN YOU ARE
This will just be a short blog, but I just needed to say something…
READY WHEN YOU ARE was released in the U.S on March 1st! READY WHEN YOU ARE was published as THE BOY FROM THE MISH in Australia. How do I feel? It’s really hard to find the words to describe how I feel knowing I have a book publ...
January 27, 2022
2022 WRITING GOALS
My goodness. I planned to blog regularly throughout 2021 and I only managed to publish one post for the whole year!
As I sat down to think about my writing goals for 2022, I began to wonder why I only wrote one blog post last year, and I think the answer is: way too much happened last year!
THE BOY FROM THE MISH was published in February. I had so many events and commitments in those first few months that blogging quickly became the last thing on my mind. It’s pretty amazing to think that my lif...
May 9, 2021
MY LAST TWO WEEKS!!!
Welcome to my first blog of 2021! As you might know, THE BOY FROM THE MISH was released into the world in February, so stay tuned for a blog about the rollercoaster that was release day/week/month!
My last two weeks have been hectic and overwhelming but at the same time, have left me feeling an enormous sense of gratitude.
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December 10, 2020
THREE THINGS I LEARNED AT VARUNA
23rd-30th November 2020: The best week of my writing life.
I packed my bags and made the hour-and-a-bit drive from Western Sydney to Katoomba in the Blue Mountains to take my residency at Varuna, the National Writer’s House. I’d won the Copyright Agency First Nations Fellowship shortly after landing my first book deal in what was a string of good fortune. Of course, then the bushfires happened and Covid happened and the residency was pushed back to November 2020. Somehow, this worked out positiv...
November 10, 2020
MY BOOK HAS A COVER!
What a week. Kylie released her new album (which may be one of her bests!), America voted for Biden, it’s NAIDOC Week. I’m also super excited to say my upcoming book, The Boy from the Mish, has a cover!
I love it. I love it I love it I love it. The artwork of Jackson and T...
November 2, 2020
Mr. Wagon
There was a man I knew a long time ago. His name was Mr. Wagon and he was the first character I ever created. He was the protagonist of my very first series of books - books I wrote when I was five or six. I had cut pieces of A4 paper in half and stapled them together to make a booklet. I would write about Mr. Wagon and his life, then partner the words with illustrations. I must have written about ten of them before I stopped. And I don’t remember anything about the stories I wrote, except that...
