by Julia Lawrinson | May 3, 2009 | Uncategorized
Writing is a hard gig.** First there’s the actual writing, a rollercoaster of pleasure and pain. Then there’s finding a home for the product of your many hours of bum-numbing (literally) labour, and the possible (and, for so-far unpublished authors, inevitable) pain...
by Julia Lawrinson | Apr 22, 2009 | Uncategorized
As an author, probably the biggest recent change in publishing is the proliferation of YA book blogs. The power of review has been taken from the same few in the newspapers, and given to the diverse many. I have some misgivings about this: sometimes the quality of...
by Julia Lawrinson | Apr 18, 2009 | Uncategorized
From about the age of 16, I was a Beatles maniac. And I mean maniac: I could have gone on the Einstein factor with my obsessive knowledge of the chronology of the Beatles rise and demise (with special reference to John Lennon.) I had every Beatles book in...
by Julia Lawrinson | Apr 12, 2009 | Uncategorized
No, I’m not talking about sex in writing this time, although I’ve had some amusing Facebook suggestions on how to name girls’ lower picnic areas for the virginity novel (and also a suggestion that it is called just that: The Virginity Novel. Further opinions...
by Julia Lawrinson | Apr 2, 2009 | Uncategorized
It hasn’t been my week. The Children’s Book Council Awards shortlist came and went; I worked the sort of hours that made requisite sleep a (waking) dream; and something has died in our roof (oof!). And now, I wanted to post the draft cover of Famous!, but the...
by Julia Lawrinson | Mar 21, 2009 | Uncategorized
One of my sorrows about having missed the Perth Writers Festival was not getting to meet Justine Larbelestier, whose open-hearted and funny blog I adore. In a recent post, she offers entirely apt advice for those struggling with the whole...
