#LoveOzLit: Ambelin Kwaymullina on characterisation
Respecting the experience of Indigenous and marginalised peoples Ambelin Kwaymullina is an author and illustrator and is of the Palyku people. She is the author of…
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#LoveOzLit: Eliza Henry-Jones on dialogue & characterisation
Dialogue and characterisation Eliza Henry-Jones is the author of the acclaimed In The Quiet, a story about a mother’s grief. Here she talks about…
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#LoveOzLit: Honey Brown on how not to write robots
No robots allowed Like Tony Park, author Honey Brown doesn’t believe your characters should be set in stone before your start writing. The plot…
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#LoveOzLit: Charlotte Wood on characterisation
Charlotte Wood is the author of the acclaimed novel The Natural Way of Things … which absolutely everyone is raving about. Seriously, I have…
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#LoveOzLit: Todd Alexander on drawing from reality in your writing
As much as you don’t want to get sued if you piss someone off by using them in your book, reality really is the…
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#LoveOzLit: Steph Bowe on needing unlikeable characters
This is something I’ve across when I’m editing: authors who are afraid to have their characters be unlikeable or do the wrong thing, because,…
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#LoveOzLit: Candice Fox on bucking trends
Candice Fox is an award-winning Australian crime author and now collaborator with James Patterson. Her Archer and Bennett series, now three books long, has been…
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#LoveOzLit: Sean Williams on taking chances
Throw what you know out the window, Sean Williams says, and take a chance. But like it’s been mentioned in an earlier series of…
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#LoveOzLit: Maria Lewis: stay true to yourself
Maria Lewis knows a little bit about staying true to your author vision. Her debut novel, Who’s Afraid?, was released last week to a…
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#LoveOzLit: Anne Buist on complex characters
Anne Buist is the author of Medea’s Curse, the first in her Natalie King forensic psychiatrist series, and one of the best in 2015…
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