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[Shelleyrae]

Share your links to news about Australian women writers.. this can include: blog guest posts and interviews, articles, pod casts, and more.

[Shelleyrae]

I read the interview with Sulari Gentill in the NSW Sun Herald Book section today

You can find it online here: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/b...

[Bronwyn]

For those interested in early Australian women writers, I found an item on ABC news today about the restoration of a 1920s film made in Tasmania, based on the novel Jewelled Nights by Marie Bjelke Petersen (apparently Joh's aunt), who was a very successful Australian romance writer.
The ABC link is : http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-01-29/jewelled-nights-restored-for-big-screen/3799094

It prompted me to find out more about Marie Bjelke Petersen, as I'd never heard of her. There's a fairly good page about her in Wikipedia, and I also found a very interesting academic article by Jeanette Delamoir: 'Marie Bjelke Petersen's 'virile story': Jewelled Nights, gender instability, and the bush' which was originally published in the journal Hecate, and is available online here.

I wonder how many other successful Australian women writers have been forgotten...

[Lauren]

I came across a link @ the Read in a Single Sitting blog

Aussie author Nicole Murphy is offering a personalized story for Valentines Day: http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Personalis...

What a unique gift!

[Mark]

I submitted an article talking about the AWWC to an online speculative fiction magazine, Antipodean SF, and I was fortunate enough to have it published this month.

You can find a direct link to the article here if you're reading this in March 2012, otherwise look at issue 165 in the archive site.

-m

[Erin]

Today the wonderful people over at Indie BookSpot have posted an interview with me. My first author interview! Very exciting! :-) http://indiebookspot.com/2012/06/11/i...

[Lizzy]

Why the Stella Prize is needed: "reading treasures" by Australian women still go unnoticed, even by participants of AWW: The Stella Prize Longlist Announced.

[Brenda]

And boy, haven't I found some reading treasures in the last 12 months!!! I've been especially impressed by the quality of debut and self-published authors as well! Australian authors have come a very long way!!!

[Lizzy]

Me, too. Makes you wonder how many good published books by Australian women have gone unnoticed over the years, let alone if they were never published in the first place!

[Brenda]

That's right. Thank goodness for the recognition they are getting now. The National Year of Reading started it, with the AWW making a big difference:) Such a great incentive for us readers!

[Leonie]

This is me in the Upper Hunter Entertainer :)

http://www.haguepublishing.com/news/F...

[Shelleyrae]

Leonie wrote: "This is me in the Upper Hunter Entertainer :)

http://www.haguepublishing.com/news/F..."

Congratulations Leonie!

[Brenda]

Leonie wrote: "This is me in the Upper Hunter Entertainer :)

http://www.haguepublishing.com/news/F..."

Congratulations Leonie, that is wonderful!!

[Dionne]

Brenda wrote: "And boy, haven't I found some reading treasures in the last 12 months!!! I've been especially impressed by the quality of debut and self-published authors as well! Australian authors have come a ve..."

I'm glad you included self-published authors in that :). I spoke at the recent NSW Writers Centre writers festival and I'll also be speaking on self-publishing at the Sydney Writers Festival http://www.swf.org.au/component/optio...

[Brenda]

Dionne wrote: "Brenda wrote: "And boy, haven't I found some reading treasures in the last 12 months!!! I've been especially impressed by the quality of debut and self-published authors as well! Australian authors..."

Self-published authors are wonderful! I'm so glad they are being recognised more now, and getting the much needed support:)

[Leonie]

Shelleyrae wrote: "Leonie wrote: "This is me in the Upper Hunter Entertainer :)

http://www.haguepublishing.com/news/F..."

Congratulations Leonie!"

Thanks Brenda and Shellyrae! I'll also be speaking briefly at an Upper Hunter arts event in May, which will be my first (small) presentation as "an author."

[Dionne]

Brenda wrote: "Dionne wrote: "Brenda wrote: "And boy, haven't I found some reading treasures in the last 12 months!!! I've been especially impressed by the quality of debut and self-published authors as well! Aus..."

Thanks Brenda! and congratulations Leonie!

[Leonie]

Dionne wrote: "Brenda wrote: "Dionne wrote: "Brenda wrote: "And boy, haven't I found some reading treasures in the last 12 months!!! I've been especially impressed by the quality of debut and self-published autho..."

Thanks Dionne!

[Leonie]

Dionne wrote: "Brenda wrote: "And boy, haven't I found some reading treasures in the last 12 months!!! I've been especially impressed by the quality of debut and self-published authors as well! Australian authors..."

I was at the Speculative Fiction Festival Dionne, and enjoyed the thoughts you presented on that panel. You spoke very well.

[Dionne]

Leonie wrote: "Dionne wrote: "Brenda wrote: "And boy, haven't I found some reading treasures in the last 12 months!!! I've been especially impressed by the quality of debut and self-published authors as well! Aus..."

Thanks Leonie! Shame we didn't get to meet. I appreciate the positive feedback. I'm enjoying advocating for a professional approach to self-publishing. If everyone did a better job, we'd all have a good name and there would be more awesome books out there.

[Vicki]

Leonie wrote: "This is me in the Upper Hunter Entertainer :)

http://www.haguepublishing.com/news/F..."

Congratulations, Leonie. It's a fabulous write up.

[Leonie]

Vicki wrote: "Leonie wrote: "This is me in the Upper Hunter Entertainer :)

http://www.haguepublishing.com/news/F..."

Congratulations, Leonie. It's a fabulous write up."

Thanks Vicki!

[Leonie]

Dionne wrote: "Leonie wrote: "Dionne wrote: "Brenda wrote: "And boy, haven't I found some reading treasures in the last 12 months!!! I've been especially impressed by the quality of debut and self-published autho..."

I agree about the professional approach to publishing. I'm published by a new independent publisher, but I learnt so much during the editing process - basically that my "pristine" manuscript was not as pristine as I thought it was, when I submitted it - that your comments on professional editing really resonated with me.

I've read some fabulous self published books, but also some others that could have been fabulous with more attention to detail - details that a professional editor or proofreader would have picked up. (I might add that I recently read an eBook by a well known author whose publisher could have taken some of your advice about professional proofreading and editing to heart - nothing hugely major, but not what you'd expect from a large publishing house with money and resources.)

[Lizzy]

Alisa Piper has been interviewed by Rachel Kohn for The Spirit of Things on Radio National about her book Sinning Across Spain. A fascinating memoir of a journey. It's alternative title was Praying with My Feet, which sounds more apt.