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PD Martin: Crime & Publishing

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PD Martin: Crime & Publishing

Listening to Australian crime author PD Martin talk about her writing and publishing journey is an insight into the perseverance and determination needed to sustain a career as an author. The road to publication has been a long one. After a psychology degree, a post graduate certificate in creative writing and three unpublished young adult novels under her belt, not to mention working as a corporate writer for more than 10 years, PD Martin finally hit the formula for success with her crime fiction featuring Aussie FBI profiler Sophie Anderson. There are now six books published in this series. Based…

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A Post Modern Death At Oxford

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A Post Modern Death At Oxford

A bite size crime by Evelyn Tsitas Attention Death in Post Modernism Delegates – please select your name tags and corresponding characters. Rules of the Game are included in your Welcome Packs. We hope you enjoy your evening of murder, and three course traditional English dinner at the College High Table.  Kate had everything ready. The Welcome Packs, the character designations, and the rules. She’d labeled the doors, she’d carefully placed the weapons, and she had made sure that all delegates had the appropriate 1920s costumes. Those who had not brought the right attire with them were given items from…

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Introducing “100 days to the doctorate” – my new blog

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Introducing “100 days to the doctorate” – my new blog

I started the blog 100daystothedoctorate with 100 days to go before I have to hand in my doctorate in Creative Writing at RMIT University. Why? My friends and family are sick of hearing me talk endlessly about it, and as a writer, and a researcher, and blogger, I decided to go public with the tense time, trials and hopefully, triumphs ahead. This year has already started off with some exciting news. Along with Emma Nicoletti, PhD Candidate in English and Cultural Studies at The University of Western Australia, I am now the Postgraduate Representative for  the Association for the Study of Literature, Environment and…

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Faking it: Artificial meat substitutes take centre stage

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Faking it: Artificial meat substitutes take centre stage

  Renowned philosopher and animal rights activist Peter Singer has given his tick of approval for a non-meat mania that is being touted as this year’s hottest culinary trend. Global marketing group JWT predicted faux meat, non meat products designed to look and taste like meat, on its “Next Big Thing” list for 2013 (The Age Jan 2). At the same time, laboratories are racing to produce the first batch of edible and aesthetic commercial “lab meat”.   At the Minding Animals Conference in Utrecht, in July 2012, Singer announced the only way forward for animal liberation was the successful…

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Author Christine Darcas: the passion & the promotion

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Author Christine Darcas: the passion & the promotion

Why would anyone want to be a writer? It’s a tough gig, even when a major publisher has two of your novels on the shelves and you get nominated by The Age newspaper as “pick of the week”. The answer is passion for stories and the written word, and Christine Darcas has that in abundance. The author of Dancing Backwards in High Heels and Spinning Out (Hachette) available in print, Apple iBook and eBook, Christine has recently contributed to an anthology on miscarriage; The Sounds of Silence. Still, she knows that it takes more than passion to form a writing…

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