Tell us a little about yourself and what you do. Hi, I’m Rosalie and I write speculative fiction. Writing is a passion that followed hot on the heels of reading avidly for too many years too count. For twenty years, I painted portraits and taught other artists how to approach painting portraits in oils, after [...]
Monthly Archives: December 2008
Other People’s Favourite Books – Rosalie Skinner on Douglas Adams’ Last Chance to See
December 29, 2008 – 11:10 am
Home and Away – John Marsden & Matt Ottley
December 27, 2008 – 10:14 am
Lothian, 2008, 9780734410566 (Australia) This is my picture book of 2008 – a poignant and necessary story of an ordinary Australian family who find themselves in the midst of a war, and as refugees, are placed in a detention camp. The book is heartbreaking, and older kids should read it. Yes, it will make them [...]
Literary Space – Damon Young
December 18, 2008 – 7:14 am
Damon Young, author of Distraction, says: My study is actually one corner of our lounge. The room’s also an office for my wife Ruth, entertaining wing, tearoom, and playroom for my three-year-old-son, Nikos. It’s part writerly den, part Lego wonderland. When our new baby’s born, it’ll also be a nursery. And, yes, the pram [...]
The Comfort of Figs by Simon Cleary
December 16, 2008 – 7:29 am
9780702236433, UQP, 2008 (Australia) This book opens in the past, with the sight of a body falling from a bridge. In the present, Robert O’Hara makes small gestures – planting fig trees, comforting his distraught girlfriend after an attack on them both, easing his way into an old man’s life to learn the secrets of his [...]
Literary Space – Caroline Petit
December 11, 2008 – 8:01 am
Caroline Petit says: My room is on the downstairs floor of our two-story flat in what was the old Holeproof Bathing Suit Factory. The hardwood floors are very scarred from the trolleys used to cart around the garments. I like the idea that people once worked where I sit. Just outside the door in the [...]
Matilda‘s Australian Litblog Snapshots
December 11, 2008 – 7:59 am
Established Australian litblog Matilda is doing a series of snapshots on Australian literary bloggers. Number seven was little ol’ me. Check out the interview. And be sure to scroll down the main blog page to check out the others. Perry Middlemiss has also just announced the death of Dorothy Porter, very sad news.
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A LiteraryMinded New Year’s Resolution
I do make New year’s resolutions. Last year I vowed to travel to Europe and move to Melbourne. Although these things were planned in November and December, I resolved to follow them through, and I did. The year before I resolved to write more, and 2007 was when I wrote Smoke & Dancing. It can [...]