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Credo, aged 14

Posted on March 4, 2013 by kate

I’m unpacking my stuff in the new house and of course this means a lot of getting distracted by rummaging curiously through boxes that have been schlepped from house to house, bedroom to office to cupboard to shed to storage … Continue reading →

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Writing is Grace

Posted on March 1, 2013 by kate

This post originally appeared on the website of Southerly, where I was guest blogging for a month. Thanks to them for permission to cross-post this and the previous three posts. Writing is Grace My fourth post – I had intended … Continue reading →

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Reader’s Block

Posted on March 1, 2013 by kate

This post originally appeared in February 2013 on the website of Southerly, where I was guest blogging for a month. Reader’s Block Ironically it was tonight, a hot, smothering, still Melbourne summer’s night when it’s all I can do to … Continue reading →

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Me on ‘Show and Tell’ site

Posted on March 1, 2013 by kate

I recently filmed a long interview with Katie ‘Monty’ Diamond and her team at ‘Show and Tell’, a new (woman-oriented?) site with media and fora and so forth. They asked me about sex work, my life, sexuality, hooker tips in … Continue reading →

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Holding Yourself by the Throat

Posted on February 22, 2013 by kate

This piece originally appeared as a post on the Southerly website, where I was guest blogging for Feb 2013.   I just heard Richard Ford tell Margaret Throsby on ABC-FM that, in writing, what writers do is make themselves smarter … Continue reading →

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Moving Books

Posted on February 22, 2013 by kate

This piece originally appeared as a post on the Southerly website, where I was guest blogging for Feb 2013.   This post is a little late: the dilatoriness due not to lack of enthusiasm but the fact that I am … Continue reading →

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The hive bites

Posted on January 13, 2012 by kate

* the following contains spoilers for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, if there’s anyone apart from me who hasn’t read the damn book   So yesterday I was working through a draft of my novel, which I started what, … Continue reading →

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All the books I read in 2011

Posted on January 6, 2012 by kate

This year was a bit up and quite a lot down in terms of reading satisfaction. I seem to be getting (a) more impatient and less tolerant, or more optimistically (b) more discerning and sophisticated in what I expect from … Continue reading →

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Sydney Writers Festival 2011

Posted on May 23, 2011 by kate

Am back from Sydney Writers Festival for 2011 and phoar, what a festival it is. I went in 2006 and it was a stunner. Huge, martially organised, teeming millions of authors both domestic and international, many drinks parties, many drinks … Continue reading →

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The publishing thing

Posted on January 25, 2011 by kate

I was having a conversation with a friend the other day who has a manuscript which is about to shopped around for a publisher, and I found myself offering (no doubt patronising) wisdom about this process, and thinking that in … Continue reading →

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