Tell Us Your Backstory

Tell Us Your Backstory with SE Gilchrist

July 23, 2018 // 0 Comments

Tell Us Your Backstory with SE Gilchrist For some unknown reason, I always wanted to be a singer – never mind that despite learning to play the piano at the ripe old age of five years (and quite well actually), I’ve never been able to hold a tune. And I was bitterly disappointed [...]

Tell Us Your Backstory with Justine Lewis

July 10, 2018 // 0 Comments

Tell Us Your Backstory with Justine Lewis Painting the Princess is a sequel, that’s really a prequel, to my first book, The Secret Prince. Both are stand-alone books. I didn’t plan on writing a series, or even linked books, but as I was editing The Secret Prince I decided I wanted to [...]

Tell Us Your Backstory with Cassandra Samuels

June 12, 2018 // 0 Comments

Tell Us Your Backstory with Cassandra Samuels When I was fifteen years old I read Pride and Prejudice for school. It was a tiny volume with a red hardcover and bible-thin paper. I groaned at the thought of having to wade through this book but as I started to read it, and enjoy the humour and [...]

Tell Us Your Backstory with Sasha Wasley

June 6, 2018 // 0 Comments

Tell Us Your Backstory with Sasha Wasley I didn’t always want to be a writer, but I always wrote. At 5 years old, I wrote my first poem. Well, Mum wrote it for me because my handwriting skills were still in the developmental stage. I hadn’t thought of being an author at that stage. I [...]

Tell us your Backstory with Isabella Hargreaves

May 11, 2018 // 2 Comments

Tell us your Backstory with Isabella Hargreaves For many years, I’ve been immersed in reading and writing Queensland history – stories of its people, places and events. Much of Queensland history is about heart-breaking struggle, striving against the environment, the economy and the [...]

Tell Us Your Backstory with Vanda Vadas

February 28, 2018 // 0 Comments

Tell Us Your Backstory with Vanda Vadas From what or where do you get your ideas? It’s a common question asked of authors. For me, inspiration can strike at any time, in any place, and from anything. A love of history, a fascination with 18th century pirates, and a cruise around the [...]

Tell Us Your Backstory with Eleanor Limprecht

February 23, 2018 // 1 Comment

Tell Us Your Backstory with Eleanor Limprecht The Passengers is the story of a war bride from Australia who marries an American GI and then travels to the US on a ‘bride ship’ in 1946. In the novel she returns to Australia for the first time as a grandmother, taking her American [...]

Tell Us Your Backstory with Elizabeth M Darcy

December 14, 2017 // 0 Comments

Tell Us Your Backstory with Elizabeth M Darcy When I was fresh off the boat from London, UK many years ago, I had a lot of trouble understanding what people were saying. I know we speak the same language but the phrasing and colloquialisms are very different. Thinking back now, I must have [...]

Tell Us Your Backstory with Anthea Hodgson

November 10, 2017 // 6 Comments

Tell Us Your Backstory with Anthea Hodgson The Drifter Backstory: As the release of my second novel, The Cowgirl, approaches, I wanted to thank her elder, less well-behaved sister, The Drifter, for arriving on my doorstep at 3am with a bottle of champagne – and some random she’d picked [...]

Tell Us Your Backstory with Ellie Jean

November 9, 2017 // 0 Comments

Tell Us Your Backstory with Ellie Jean Reading in my spare time when I was younger was something I enjoyed immensely. Horror novels, Stephen King was able to engross me in every book he wrote. Then my life took a turn towards University and doing my teaching studies so I could teach High [...]