Quotable 5

If I had to give young writers advice I would say don’t listen to writers talking about writing or themselves. — Lillian Hellman ‘I do want you to meet Mrs Leighton-Buzzard,’ said Mrs Bovey-Tracey, asking me to dinner the other day. ‘She’s such an interesting woman, and most unusual. She doesn’t write, you know.’ — [...]

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Greed and fear

The endless eBook debate grinds on and on and we do not propose to rehearse it yet again here: a host of sites are already doing that and the best illustration of the confusion and despair it provokes we have yet seen is this from Maria Langer. Knocklofty sees two obstacles to the progress of [...]

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The trouble with writing

Writing cannot be done in a loud café or in a house chaotic with children and the plaints of a neglected spouse. Too frequently it is done in stolen moments under the pressure of avoided duty or furtively at an office desk while a supervisor is distracted. The legends of Grub Street, a lane in [...]

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Author discovers eBooks

Australian writer Sharyn Munro has become a convert to eBooks. She lives in her wildlife sanctuary on a remote mountain top in the wilds of New South Wales, many miles away from the nearest bookshop along roads that are more like training ranges for tanks. And like many writers, she can’t always afford to buy [...]

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A treasury of tales

Best-selling Tasmanian author Rachael Treasure has released her first eBook, Treasure’s Tales — a collection of new short stories in her own humorous, earthy style, published by local firm Summerhill Publishing. The collection shows how her writing has developed from the beginning as a 17-year-old university student until now as a still-young farmer and mother [...]

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Quotable 4

Read over your compositions, and where ever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. —Dr Samuel Johnson Authors are easy to get on with — if you’re fond of children —British publisher Michael Joseph There can hardly be a stranger commodity in the world than books. Printed by [...]

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Camus eBook: buy now

To mark the 50th anniversary of Albert Camus’ Nobel Prize for Literature, Knocklofty is offering a new translation of two of his plays, The Misunderstanding and Caligula, by Adelaide actor/director Christopher Williams, as an eBook. Copyright restrictions on the use of the translations have been eased to allow bona fide actors, producers and teachers to [...]

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Vive Camus!

On this day (October 16) in 1957 Albert Camus was having lunch with a friend at the restaurant Chez Marius in Paris when a young man sent by his publisher Gallimard approached the table, dismissed the waiter and informed Camus that he had been awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. To mark the 50th anniversary [...]

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Free eBook: The Brasenose Bequest Part Two

The second part of The Brasenose Bequest by Australian author Edwin Leane is now available as a free download. The mystery of Nether Parkley, the dilapidated mansion left to Allan Neale by his enigmatic friend, the late Hugo Brasenose, takes another complicated and terrifying turn and the romance with his Irish cousin Kathleen deepens. Go [...]

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Why typography matters

Returning from a shopping expedition on the bus, two old ladies were enjoying a chat.”I always buy the Bushell’s tea because of the lovely Garamond typeface on the packet,” one of them observed.”Yairss,” agreed her companion. “I’d have bought that bloody soap if they hadn’t set the body copy in 9/10 Bembo.”

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