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What Does A FIFO Gal Gotta Do To Get A Guy Around Here?

6 December 2014 by Georgina Penney

Georgina Penney, author of the upcoming book, 'Fly In, Fly Out', provides us with a snapshot of the FIFO lifestyle and how difficult it can be for women working in remote locations, to find a love … [Read more...]

Alexander McCall Smith talks about his journey as a writer

12 March 2014 by Caroline Curtis

Much-loved author of the popular series The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Alexander 'Sandy' McCall Smith is currently on tour in Australia to publicise his latest novel, The Forever Girl. I caught … [Read more...]

Lana Penrose ends her Trilogy with another Bad Romance

16 June 2013 by Deborah Robinson

Australian author Lana Penrose (pictured) has ended her three-part memoir, which began with the best-seller 'To Hellas and Back', on a rather sour note with 'Addicted to Love'. But as the author … [Read more...]

Parental Grief and the Dreaded First Holiday

13 December 2012 by Diane Bucci

Many families in our neighborhoods are suffering through their first holiday season without a loved one. Four years ago, I had my first dreadful holiday without my son, Mikey. He ended his own life on … [Read more...]

Former sex worker Annika Cleeve may have faked her memoir Mattress Actress

6 December 2012 by Deborah Robinson

Author of Mattress Actress, Annika Cleeve (not her real name), claims to be a former sex worker and international call girl who put herself through university. But the math just doesn't add up. This … [Read more...]

Author Karen Tyrrell Talks about her Battle with Bipolar Disorder

7 October 2012 by Belladonna Took

Brisbane schoolteacher Karen Tyrrell will never forget that fateful morning in February 2003 when student Allie Broadhurst (not her real name) walked into her classroom with her parents. “I withdrew … [Read more...]

Emerging Australian Women Writers

27 September 2012 by Belladonna Took

You don’t have to look far beyond our shores to hear some extraordinary voices. Voices like Kate Forsyth, Anita Heiss, Melina Marchetta, Kate Grenville, Margo Lanagan, Nikki Gemmell, Isobelle … [Read more...]

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The Twelve Planets series: promoting women writers and Australian short stories

7 March 2012 by Stephanie Campisi

Since its inception in 2009 boutique publisher Twelfth Planet Press (TPP) has been a strong advocate for local writers working in the speculative fiction genre and of female writers in particular. In … [Read more...]

Intelligent, successful women seduced by Aussie ‘love rat’

29 February 2012 by Deborah Robinson

Kay Schubach is a brave woman. It can't be easy to publicly admit that you were in love with a man the media has labeled a 'play boy' and a 'love rat'. But Kay is in very good company. In addition … [Read more...]

What’s on your Bucket List? 100 Things with Sebastian Terry

2 December 2011 by Tania McCartney

Handsome, smart, adventurous and philothranthopic? Stand back girls, 26-year-old Sebastian Terry is too busy zipping all over our fair planet achieving extraordinary things to stop for a quick … [Read more...]

A Conversation with best-selling Australian author Kate Forsyth

21 October 2011 by Stephanie Campisi

'Write what you know.' It's the often repeated mantra of creative writing teachers the world over, but according to best-selling author Kate Forsyth, it does have its merits: “As writers, we can’t … [Read more...]

How I Surrendered to the Grief of Losing My Husband

21 July 2011 by Jennifer Hawkins

On February 4, 2009 I woke up to find that my husband had died in his sleep from an undetected heart condition. He was forty-nine years old. I was thirty-nine. It was the biggest shock of my life. The … [Read more...]

Kim Scott Wins 2011 Miles Franklin Award for ‘That Deadman Dance’

23 June 2011 by Deborah Robinson

Kim Scott is this year’s winner of the prestigious Miles Franklin Literary Award. At the Miles Franklin Award dinner held at the State Library of Victoria last night, the multi-award winning author … [Read more...]

How To Self-Publish a Children's Series and Remain Sane

16 November 2010 by Tania McCartney

Interested in self-publishing a children's book? Want to know if it's worth it and if you can remain sane in the process? Well, what do they say about working with animals and children? Toss that … [Read more...]

Battling Childhood Demons with Caroline Overington

4 October 2010 by Megan Blandford

Caroline Overington has some stories to tell. Her novels, first Ghost Child and now I Came to Say Goodbye, speak of families struggling and battling their demons, and of children as victims amidst it … [Read more...]

Farm Girl Made Good – author Fleur McDonald

11 August 2010 by Megan Blandford

Fleur McDonald is an author with her feet firmly on the land that she loves working with. Beginning her farming career straight out of boarding school, McDonald found herself working one hundred … [Read more...]

Childless NOT by Choice

20 June 2010 by Deborah Robinson

As a woman who gave birth to her first child at the age of 18, I can't even imagine what it's like to want a child and not be able to have one. In a society that values it's working families, it must … [Read more...]

The Year I Spent in a Muslim Girls School in the Middle East

4 June 2010 by Deborah Robinson

As a teenager in the 1960s, Ellen Mary Wilton (pictured), spent a year at a Muslim girls boarding school in the ancient Egyptian city of Alexandria. For years Ellen has fascinated audiences with her … [Read more...]

Aussie Mum Behind the International Publishing Sensation – Beautiful Malice

14 May 2010 by Deborah Robinson

It's a publishing fairytale. Rebecca James made international headlines in 2009 when the manuscript for her book BEAUTIFUL MALIC, ignited a bidding war between several major publishers that would … [Read more...]

It’s an Awesome World with Dallas – WIN!

9 March 2010 by Tania McCartney

When American writer Dallas Clayton decided to write a book for his young son, he knew the book’s theme would be on dreaming big. Penning the text in 10 minutes and taking 6 months to complete the … [Read more...]

The Making of Julia Gillard

18 October 2009 by Deborah Robinson

Julia Gillard is the first woman in our nation's history to become the Deputy Prime Minister and is tipped by many to go all the way to the top job. Highly intelligent, with a strong work ethic, … [Read more...]

Grandmother Turned Children’s Author, Mimi King

11 October 2009 by Tania McCartney

When Australian grandmother of eight, Robyn Smith, took on the exotic nom de plume of Mimi King, it wasn’t the only major change in her life. After a lifetime of teaching and reading countless … [Read more...]

In Search of Angels

8 October 2009 by Deborah Robinson

When her 14 year old niece was diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, respected journalist, radio producer and TV researcher, Janise Beaumont (pictured), set off in search of a miracle. What she … [Read more...]

The Butterfly Effect: A New Positive Approach to Raising Happy, Confident Teen Girls

1 October 2009 by Tania McCartney

There is something poignant in the title of The Butterfly Effect – a book that gently prises open the cocoon surrounding teenage girls; those delicate creatures caught half-way between a lengthy and … [Read more...]

Children’s Author Ingrid Jonach

28 September 2009 by Tania McCartney

Oh, I love a kids’ chapter book that aims so directly at its audience, you can hear the bulls-eye thud of its literary arrow. Talented young Australian author, Ingrid Jonach (pictured), has created a … [Read more...]

Do You Want Sex With That?

25 September 2009 by Deborah Robinson

Journalist for The Age newspaper in Melbourne, Claire Halliday was asked to write a book on Australian's attitudes to sex. As well as providing a fascinating look inside Australia's sex industry and … [Read more...]

Lisa Williams – Life Among the Dead

24 September 2009 by Deborah Robinson

Since 2006 Lisa Williams has been hosting her own cable TV show, Life Among the Dead, which airs in Australia on W. On 14th September the popular medium and clairvoyant spoke to me by telephone from … [Read more...]

Children’s Book Review: A Taste for Red by Lewis Harris

12 August 2009 by Tania McCartney

“…What happens if your sixth-grade science teacher is also your immortal enemy..?” I must admit, I’m a little bit chicken. Part lioness, part monkey, part chicken. I’ve watched legions of fans devour … [Read more...]

The Real Man’s Tool Box: A DIY Health Manual for Men

11 August 2009 by Deborah Robinson

Released in time for Fathers Day, The Real Man's Tool Box by Tammy Farrell is the most important book your husband, father, brother, son, or male friend, will read all year. In May 2009, the Senate's … [Read more...]

Beatle Meets Destiny – A book for teens and the teenager in all of us

9 August 2009 by Deborah Robinson

Beatle Meets Destiny is the first young adult novel from former advertising copy writer and author of Two Canadian Clubs and Dry at the Martini Den, Gabrielle Williams (pictured). Set in Melbourne, … [Read more...]

Book Review: La’s Orchestra Saves the World by Alexander McCall Smith

5 August 2009 by Tania McCartney

“…The strutting demagogue, with his insane shouting, had fixed his eyes on them, and he was coming…” This line, in chapter eleven of Alexander McCall Smith’s latest novel, terrified me. Why? Who was … [Read more...]

Children’s Book Review: Cicada Summer by Kate Constable

24 July 2009 by Tania McCartney

The dreamlike opening of Cicada Summer was a little painful to read. Having lost my mother far too many years ago, it was a little heartbreaking to realise, within moments of opening this junior … [Read more...]

The Gleefully Exaggerated Gretel Killeen

8 July 2009 by Deborah Robinson

She's been heavily criticised in the media and vilified by just about every armchair TV critic with access to a mobile phone and a computer. But you won't hear her complaining. In fact you won't … [Read more...]

The Heart and Craft of Romance Writing

1 July 2009 by Deborah Robinson

Australia's Queen of Romance, Valerie Parv leads an all star line-up of romance writers who have revealed their secrets of success in the new book, Heart and Craft. So you want to write a romance … [Read more...]

Essentially Erica Bauermeister: Master of Edible Fiction

2 June 2009 by Tania McCartney

Ah, La Dolce Vita. The sweet life of a successful author. Erica Bauermeister’s first fiction novel, The School of Essential Ingredients, may still be fresh on the shelves but this tantalising novel … [Read more...]

S is for Superhero and B is for Bob McLeod

28 May 2009 by Tania McCartney

Popular children's author and comic book illustrator, Bob McLeod, chats with Australian Women Online. Bob McLeod has been doing something super. Something that is the envy of kids and adults … [Read more...]

Book of the Month: Hopetoun Wives by Fran Cusworth

7 May 2009 by Deborah Robinson

For her second novel, Melbourne based author Fran Cusworth revisited the year she followed her husband to a mining town on the south west coast of Australia. Although a work of fiction, the story of … [Read more...]

Lisa Heidke delivers MummyLit at its best with Lucy Springer

4 February 2009 by Deborah Robinson

Book of the Month: February 2009 The public's appetite for ChicLit may have peaked somewhere around 2004, but the genre that gave us the flawed but much loved heroine of the 1990's, continues to … [Read more...]

Comedian Denise Scott reflects on her first gig as an author

1 December 2008 by Deborah Robinson

Denise Scott (pictured) is a well-loved Melbourne based stand-up comedian, actor and radio and TV personality. She has appeared regularly on TV shows such as Full Frontal, The Today Show and The Big … [Read more...]

International Success for Australian Author Kate Morton

9 August 2008 by Deborah Robinson

KATE MORTON (pictured) made headlines in 2006 when the advance rights sales to her debut novel, The Shifting Fog, published in the UK as The House at Riverton, hit the million-dollar mark. Last month … [Read more...]

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