October 8, 2011 – 4:55 pm
I reviewed Charlotte Wood’s new novel Animal People for the Age and it looks like it has already found its way online, on the SMH website (not sure if it was in their print version as well). It is definitely one of the best Australian books I’ve read this year, and I do encourage you to [...]
Spineless Wonders is a new publishing company, founded by Bronwyn Mehan, which specialises in short fiction from Australian writers in any genre and in print, digital and audio formats. Their publications will include single author collections and novellas, an annual anthology published in conjunction with a national writing competition as well as special collections focusing [...]
Text Publishing, June 2011 9781921758010 (trade paperback, ebook) Reviewed by Raili Simojoki If you’ve read any of Craig Sherborne’s writing, you’ll know not to expect a rosy-eyed view of the world. The Amateur Science of Love follows the grim journey of a love affair gone wrong. Colin leaves the unglamorous environs of his parents’ farm [...]
By Angela Meyer
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Posted in Other People's Words, Reviews + Analyses
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Also tagged acerbic, actors, aspirations, Australian authors, Australian literature, banality, biting, Craig Sherborne, desire, deterioration, guest reviews, humorous, love affair, love gone wrong, psychological, Raili Simojoki, realism, relationships gone sour, relationships gone wrong, social realism, Text Publishing, The Amateur Science of Love, truthful, unlikeble characters
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I decided to extend the life of some of my short stories that have been published in journals/magazines over the last few years, by publishing them digitally. It’s a bit of a (fairly safe) experiment in self-publishing and the world of ebooks. I’m loving reading on my Kobo eReader, and I’ve made these stories available [...]
By Angela Meyer
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Posted in Angela's Publications
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Also tagged Angela Meyer, anxiety, Australian authors, Cecile Raposo-Knight, consumerism, digital publishing, dystopian, ebooks, epub, ereaders, ereading, Kenneth Erickson, Kindle, Lily Mae Martin, literary fiction, my publications, near-future, PDF, sensation, SF, short stories, short story ebooks, Smashwords, Sonja Meyer, Stanza, weird fiction
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Viking, May 2011 9780670075966 (Aus, ebook) Stead, a sailor, arrives in Sydney Harbour in 1943. He hasn’t seen Marina for five years, and yet he can’t forget the three days they spent together prior to the war. Some undeniable connection had been forged. He finds out she failed to enrol in the music school she was [...]
By Angela Meyer
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Posted in Interviews + Profiles
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Also tagged art, Australian authors, Changi, commercial fiction, emotion, historical fiction, Jane Eyre, layers of history, literary love stories, love, love story, Mardi McConnochie, music, romance, satisfying reads, SWF 2011, Sydney Writers Festival 2011, The Voyagers, wartime London, wartime Shanghai, wartime Sydney, women in wartime
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Text Publishing 9781921758133, March 2011 (Aus) (also UK) Reviewed by Imogen Baratta Helen Hodgman’s Blue Skies tells the story of an unnamed young wife and mother living in the ‘heart shaped island’ of Tasmania. The agonising banality of her day-to-day life plays out within the confines of stark, suffocating suburbia, amid the manicured lawns and [...]
By Angela Meyer
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Posted in Other People's Words, Reviews + Analyses
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Also tagged 1970s fiction, Australian authors, Blue Skies, chick-lit, Depression, feminism, feminist literature, feminist novels, fiction set in Tasmania, guest reviews, Helen Hodgman, Imogen Baratta, psychological fiction, rediscovered classics, sardonic, suburbia, Text Publishing, women writers, women's fiction
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February 10, 2011 – 7:30 am
I recently reviewed Tobsha Learner’s new collection of sexy short stories, Yearn: Tales of Lust and Longing, for Bookseller+Publisher. They’ve put it up now on their Fancy Goods blog. ‘Yearn is a collection of fun, imaginative and sexy stories by the author of Tremble and Quiver, Tobsha Learner. Learner’s stories are not purely erotic, but romantic and [...]
The Big Issue no. 359: Toasty Tales fiction special Available now from street vendors, launched Wednesday 21 July at Readings Carlton Reviewed by Sam Cooney For me, The Big Issue is like a tub of Neapolitan ice-cream. It’s reliable. It’s unpretentious and doesn’t pretend to be anything except exactly what it is. You buy it every [...]
By Angela Meyer
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Posted in Other People's Words, Reviews + Analyses
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Also tagged Australian writers, Christos Tsiolkas, Emmett Stinson, guest reviews, Jo Case, Karen Hitchcock, Linda Jaivin, Melissa Cranenburgh, Michael Faber, Oslo Davis, Patrick Allington, Romy Ash, Sam Cooney, Samuel Rutter, Shaun Gladwell, short fiction, short stories, Stormie Mills, the big issue, the big issue fiction special, toasty tales, Toni Jordan, winter
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On the weekend I was up in sunny Brisbane for the Australian Booksellers Association 2010 conference. It’s a conference for members and friends of the ABA – so, booksellers, publishers, and some librarians and media. I was officially there as a ‘blogger’ – on a panel called ‘Customers, Connections and Communities’, with Andrew McDonald from [...]
By Angela Meyer
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Posted in Commentary, Reviews + Analyses
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Also tagged ABA, Australian authors, Australian Booksellers Association, authenticity, Bereft, Bleed for Me, blogging, Bookseller+Publisher, booksellers, bookselling, bookstore customers, Chris Womersley, community, connection, crime fiction, culture, Darkwater, Facebook, genre fiction, Georgia Blain, Jon Page, Kirsten Tranter, literary communities, Michael Robotham, Pages & Pages, Patrick Holland, readers, reading, readings, Richard Nash, Richard Yates, social media, The Easter Parade, The Legacy, The Mary Smokes Boys, Twitter, YA fiction
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Last weekend’s literary connectivity, and what I’ve been reading lately
On the weekend I was up in sunny Brisbane for the Australian Booksellers Association 2010 conference. It’s a conference for members and friends of the ABA – so, booksellers, publishers, and some librarians and media. I was officially there as a ‘blogger’ – on a panel called ‘Customers, Connections and Communities’, with Andrew McDonald from [...]