Sisters In Crime
Fiction is wonderful, because you can explore people’s motivations, and their back story, and you can make them do this, or that, and not have to worry about sticking to the ‘real’ story which is what you have to do in journalism. I find it very liberating.
Maryrose Cuskelly didn’t set out to be a crime writer. She actively avoided it because she says,”I wasn’t sure I had the writing chops for it.” Time has proved her wrong!
Ann Penhallurick reports on the NSW Chapter’s Christmas event and how it showcased what Sisters in Crime does so well – brings an audience together to hear of, see, taste, and celebrate women’s crime writing in all its many guises.
Hayley Young won the 28th Scarlet Stiletto Award for her outback police procedural, “Monster Hunters” – her first stab at crime writing.
Love ’em, hate ’em: Melbourne author Laura Elizabeth Woollett says writing unlikeable characters can be cathartic.
The day PETA put their Farm Maps up onto the website and animal activists were trespassing onto farms, I was driving to Perth, listening to the ABC report on this atrocity. I was getting angrier and angrier and my speed was getting faster and faster, the more furious I became! I knew I needed to tell the farmer’s side of the story.
With the publication of The Hush (HarperCollins Australia) in October 2021, Perth-based author, Sara Foster, has notched up six psychological thrillers. She talked about her career and the craft of writing with Karina Kilmore for November’s Murder Monday.
Actor-turned-author Anna Downes tells us how she now uses drama techniques in her written storytelling.
UK best-selling author, Robyn Harding, discloses to Maggie Baron how a real-life experience inspired her latest novel, The Perfect Family.
“I always start out with a happy, uplifting premise, and before I know it, I’m Googling the best instruments with which to bludgeon someone to death.”