Once upon a time, I thought that the book I bought in the booksbop was the book the author wrote. Yes, silly I know, but my earliest literary training skimmed over the issues of editorship, marketing, book cover/design and the…
In the first book of the John Lang Project, John Lang: Australia's Larrikin Writer. Barrister, Novelist, Journalist and Gentleman, author Victor Crittenden claims that Lang is 'the most important of our first novelists' (xii) because Lang wrote Australia's first…
When I'm told that Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote to his publishers whingeing about the mob o f women whose writings outsold his, my reaction is ' boo hoo'. Seems like nothing much has changed - two waves of feminism and one…
THE persona 'Carter Brown' started modestly enough in the Sydney offices of Horwitz Publications in 1951. The company published locally written fiction, specifically comics and soft-covered genre novels - in common parlance, 'pulp fiction.'' In 1939 the Australian government had…