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February 7, 2012
Blogging about town
A new book means a lot of guest posting on blogs. You can read more, more, MORE of me in the following places:Gabrielle Wang interviews me about how I started out as a writer, and my daily writing routine.On Lisa Hannett's blog, in her regular Tuesday Therapy series, I offer a bit of advice about letting ideas cook, to get the best out of them.Over at the ROR blog, I blog (unsurprisingly) about
February 3, 2012
Hobart Book Shop Sea Hearts and Reign of Beasts launch
The Hobart launch went off in grand style. Hobart Book Shop proprietors Christopher Pearce and Janet Grecian were cheerful, cool-as-cucumber hosts of the event, and a good crowd turned out to hear Rowena Cory Daniells launch Tansy Rayner Roberts's Reign of Beasts, the third book in her Creature Court trilogy, and Richard Harland launch Sea Hearts. These photos were taken by Steven Dunbar.1. Chris
Sea Hearts Radio National interview, Friday
Michael Cathcart will be interviewing me live for Books and Arts Daily on Radio National next Friday. It'll be early in the program, so make sure you switch on right at 10 a.m.—although, of course, if you miss it you can listen later by accessing this page .
Adelaide Writers' Week honour
Every year, Adelaide Writers' Week is dedicated to an Australian writer. Past dedicatees include Judith Wright, A.D. Hope, Jessica Anderson, Colin Theile and Thomas Shapcott.This year, to my very great pleasure and surprise, they've decided to dedicate Writers' Week to me. They've put up this seriously blush-worthy piece about me by Sean Williams on the Writers' Week website, by way introduction/
First few online reviews of Sea Hearts/Brides
Things are looking very nice in the review department for the selkies book.Florisiensis of Fantasy Book Review calls the novel "a dark, brooding and windswept tale of longing and despair in which Lanagan' s writing is as beautiful is ever" and says thatthe best compliment I can give it is that had I have stumbled upon it and knew nothing of its publication date I would have guessed it to have
January 28, 2012
Sea Hearts/Brides book trailer
Look at this, my very first book trailer! I promise, I don't take up all the screentime; there are some very decorative, tantalising bits at the beginning!
January 25, 2012
Sea Hearts Tasmanian launch, Hobart Book Shop
If you're in Hobart next Thursday night, 2 February, please feel free to turn up unannounced and un-RSVP'd to the double launch of Sea Hearts and Tansy Rayner Roberts's Reign of Beasts at the Hobart Book Shop in Salamanca Square.Rowena Cory Daniells will launch Reign of Beasts, the final book in Tansy's The Creature Court trilogy.Richard Harland, Worldshaker author, will launch Sea Hearts.The fun
Jackie Morris hearts The Brides
Artist Jackie Morris blogs a Brides review with a difference. "The character of Misskaella who exacts a terrible revenge on the men and the women of Rollrock with a simple act of magic and how this balances in her own life and story."The powerful 'seeing' of the thin veils between worlds."The description of how Misskaella finds the creature inside the seal and pinpoints the star like marks of
Revising a chunk of selkie-novel
Over here at Maggie Stiefvater's blog, she hosts not one, not two, but TEN writers, who all take a chunk of novel or story, scribble all over it and explain why we revise the way we do. It's fascinating for anyone interested in the close work of revision.
January 23, 2012
Sea Hearts/Brides first reviews
Just a few reviews have started to trickle out, getting the world ready for publication day (1 Feb here in Australia, 2 Feb in the UK). The Bookbag, in the UK, says that Brides is"powerful, beautiful, dangerous, unsettling, truthful, earthy, challenging, poetic, wonderful, absorbing. I can't recommend it highly enough. Margo Lanagan has a unique, uncompromising and lyrical voice and she brings it
