Tomorrow the first of my podcast series, The DownUnder Mystery Club, launches. You can find the trailer (and tomorrow the first episode) by going to the podcast tab on the menu at the top of this page. The podcast traces echoes of real Aussie mysteries into fiction. Hopefully you’ll learn about some intriguing Aussie mysteries…
Posts Tagged with books
What makes a character feel real?
Have you ever read a book where you were rooting for the main character? Maybe you cried and laughed along with them? In other words, have you read a book where the characters felt real? Becoming invested in the characters is always something that guarantees I will love the book. In fact, I have a…
The joy of rereading favourite books
I wrote a brief post about rereading back in 2017, after reading an article that was rather disparaging about people who reread books. This time the article that popped into my stream was about how rereading a book is a powerful thing (my side of the fence!). The article talked about the psychology of why…
Don’t judge a book by its cover…literally
In Australia have a television reality show called “The Voice”, where singers are selected for the competition by singing on stage for judges who have their backs to the singers. They can only judge the contestant by their voice. In other words, their age, gender, size, look, style etc aren’t judged. This would be like…
Uniquely themed book shop
It doesn’t matter where in the world you are, you can walk into a book store, cast your eye over the aisle labels and head for the book in the genre you are after, right? Well, that was true until recently. Rather than the tried and true categorisation by genre method, a new book shop…