Archive for the 'Fiction' Category

Last Sunday my wife and I attended the second launch of Rosanne Hawke’s latest novel Marrying Ameera. This time the launch was in Rosanne’s home town of Kapunda in the lower north of South Australia. I wrote a review of this wonderful book here. The launch was held in one of the local art galleries [...]

Released just this week, Marrying Ameera is the latest YA novel from award winning South Australian author Rosanne Hawke. Whatever you read this year, put this novel on your MUST READ list. Ameera, 17 years old, is the daughter of an Australian mother – a Christian – and a Pakistani father who is a devout [...]

An important aspect of writing a story that the writer needs to consider is point of view. In my current project, a novel for children aged 10 – 12, this has been one of the difficult issues I’ve had to face. I started using the first person point of view. It didn’t work, so I [...]

A few weeks ago I finished reading the novel for teenagers called Treasure Hunters written by Australian author Allan Baillie. What an entertaining read it proved to be. I’d read some of Allan’s books before but I forget which ones. On checking his website I found out how truly prolific his writing career has been. [...]

Book review: Nights in the asylum by Carol Lefevre It was suggested by my supervising lecturer that I read this novel. Last week we had the author as the guest speaker at our regular fortnightly seminar. These are usually critiquing sessions where we try to help each other with the novels we are each writing [...]