Come see me talk about Romance!
When people ask me what kind of books I write, I generally answer “nerdy teen chicklit” – which seems the best way to describe Pink and The Not Quite Perfect Boyfriend, and also the two that I’m working on at the moment. Scatterheart is probably historical romance fairy tale YA. And I don’t even know where to begin with Angel Fish. Let’s just say historical fiction.
But that kind of means that I’m also a romance writer*! How strange and exciting!
Next week is the Wheeler Centre’s week of Love & Lust, and I’m speaking on a panel called A Fine Romance: Beyond the Bodice Ripper. It’s chaired by Alan Brough and will also feature Stephanie Laurens, who is one of Australia’s highest-selling authors, and Marion Lennox, who is a Queen of Mills & Boon.
Come along and join in!
The Wheeler Centre Auditorium, 6:15PM – 7:15PM, Tuesday 06 July 2010
Man, I'm glad they don't do covers like this anymore. Look at his bulge! Who would have thought Native Americans were so into spandex!
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*The great thing about YA is that you can write whatever kind of genre or genre-mashup you like, because it’ll always just be YA and nobody will freak out.
Melbourne Writers Festival
I’m kind of in the process of writing something longer and more profound about this whole City of Literature thing, but suffice to say – ftw!
Anyway. Participate in the City of Literature by coming to see me at the Melbourne Writers Festival!
Featuring me:
DIY Culture: blogging isn’t writing is it? 26 August 2008
Learn from Lili Wilkinson and Margo Lanagan, two experts from the blogosphere!
Writers who read, readers who write 27 August 2008
Join John Marsden, Margo Lanagan and Lili Wilkinson as they speak about the books they’ve loved over the years.
Chaired by me:
Invisible Cities: writing about home 25 August 2008
Rachel Cohn and Simmone Howell discuss how they made their cities and suburbs come alive in their writing.
Bringing the past to life 26 August 2008
The books of both David Metzenthen and Elizabeth Fensham have mixed the past with the present to best tell their story. Find out how they do this and why in this engaging session.
Short launch
EVERYBODY loves a book launch.
So come along to the launch of SHORT.
It’s on Monday 26 May (yeah, that’s THIS MONDAY).
At 6pm.
It’s at The Little Bookroom (759 Nicholson Street, North Carlton)
aka, here:
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All are welcome!
Royalties from the sale of the book will go to Big Brothers Big Sisters.
In case you’re not totally sick of me
You can come and hear me talk at the Emerging Writers Festival tomorrow!
I’m on a panel called How To Find an Audience (without losing your soul). It’s at 12:30 in the Yarra Room at Melbourne Town Hall, and I intend to say some fascinating and salacious things about commercial fiction, specifically Allen & Unwin’s fabulous* new Girlfriend Fiction series.
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* I has a bias.
Come and see me!
I’ll be at the Coburg Library on Thursday evening, talking about Me and My Books and My Job. I might even read from one of my New Books…
7pm, Thursday 10 April
Coburg Library
Cnr Victoria and Louisa Streets
Coburg.
To book, call 9353 4000