RIASS stuff:
A review of'The Legacy of Eden'by Nelle Davy
An interview with Alison Skate, author of Ambush Proposals
Coming up: a review of'BZRK by Michael Grant,'a Jules Verne infographic, and a guest post from Heather Tyler.
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Other bookish stuff:
Loving this reading-themed photoset from the State Library of QLD
NSW writers: pop along to some great forthcoming events at the NSW writers centre. Van Badham and Dianne Blacklock!
Authors perspectives on Hollywood and film adaptations of novels:
The Hollywood experience for a novelist is that they dont want to know that youre alive: theyd rather you were dead. I only watched filming of the movie once. They were shooting in the Twin Towers, a scene where Ruthie the heroine, played by Roseanne Barr, was coming in to steal something. There wasnt much cohesion. I could see theyd rather missed the point of the novel so I didnt have much faith in it after that.
Behind the scenes of a Harlequin connected series:
The story bible is the foundation of any continuity series.' The purpose of the bible is to lay out the world as well as the background details and shared history of all the characters in the series, so that the individual authors will be able to use it to tell separate yet connected stories set in the same universe.' The bible also lays out the basic plotlines of each of the proposed books, and notes certain details each story must contain in order to advance the larger continuity plot.
An'interview with Kim Harrison in Detroit Free Press:
Somebody told me that I wasnt very good at (writing). But I read a lot of the sci-fi greats growing up Ray Bradbury is my favorite. I picked up a lot of how to tell a good story from them rather than book-learning.
That was what excited me. . . Not just that it was a magical tale set in a land like Alaska, but that rub of two very different textures excited me as a writer the ethereal next to the gritty.
An editor on Over and Under the Snow:
. . .Mystery is the secret spice of all compelling books. It is the unexpected and yet perfectly fitting element; when it appears its rightness is palpable, and yet often just beyond the reach of easy explanation.'Why'does it feel so right? We can't quite put our fingers on it.
The Penguin Podcast: A Charles Dickens special featuring Claire Tomalin
Occasionally I've been reading a book and feel an odd sense of jarring dislocation that it wasn't what I thought it would be. And what's given me that expectation? I ask myself. Why did I think it was going to be set in the fifties, say, or be a rural love story? Because that old photo of the girl in the 1950s dress walking down a country road on the cover gave me that impression, that's why.
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