tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74305694180344567782024-11-08T07:40:42.235-08:00Authors CompareHow do X Authors Compare to Y authors? Find out on Authors Compare.auslit.nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01566301264416500354noreply@blogger.comBlogger165125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7430569418034456778.post-22317621131776962942012-02-05T09:37:00.000-08:002012-02-05T09:37:54.471-08:00Mary and Pamela O'Shaughnessy (aka Perri O'Shaugnessy) - Author Interview: CharactersPick one of your favourites among the characters from your published fiction stories or a character which is an interesting example from your published fiction. What makes this character one of your favourites or an interesting example of your fiction?
We write a series, so naturally our favorite character is our hero, Nina Reilly. She's a self-employed lawyer in a setting that lends itself toauslit.nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01566301264416500354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7430569418034456778.post-27555209481277725032012-01-10T23:48:00.001-08:002012-01-10T23:49:40.803-08:00Lisa See - Author Interview: Internationally Bestselling NovelistWhat kinds of fiction did you read as a child and teenager, and did you have some favourites?
As a child, I loved Elizabeth Enright’s books. But I loved just about everything I read – Heidi, Black Beauty, The Jungle Books, Little Women (and the rest in the series), Little House on the Prairie (and the rest of that series too). One summer, I tried to read as many books as possible in the auslit.nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01566301264416500354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7430569418034456778.post-3317577343011415762011-12-25T17:52:00.000-08:002011-12-25T17:52:32.283-08:00Cameron Trost - Author Interview: Short Story WriterWhat kinds of fiction did you read as a child and teenager, and did you have some favourites?
I went through different periods of obsession as a child. From the age of nine or so, an older brother let me borrow his Doctor Who novels and for a couple of years I would read nothing else. He then convinced me to read The Hobbit and unintentionally led me to become obsessed with the fantasy genre. I auslit.nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01566301264416500354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7430569418034456778.post-44748975641328668032011-12-16T02:28:00.000-08:002011-12-16T03:33:33.411-08:00Geoff Brown - Author Interview: Short Story WriterWhat kinds of fiction did you read as a child and teenager, and did you have some favourites?
I read everything from Enid Blyton, the Hardy Boys and Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Detectives to Alistair MacLean and Wilbur Smith. I devoured books. I could not get enough to read, ever.
Would you say your childhood and teenage reading has had a distinct influence on how you write fiction now, and auslit.nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01566301264416500354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7430569418034456778.post-33221985430053331832011-12-06T01:20:00.001-08:002011-12-06T01:35:48.412-08:00Michael Stanley (Michael Sears and Stanley Trollip) - Author Interview: CharactersPick one of your favourites among the characters from your published fiction stories or a character which is an interesting example from your published fiction. What makes this character one of your favourites or an interesting example of your fiction?
In our second novel – A Deadly Trade - we have a character called Moremi, who is the cook at a tourist camp on the Linyanti River in northern auslit.nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01566301264416500354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7430569418034456778.post-59673177703719989802011-12-05T23:12:00.001-08:002011-12-05T23:27:22.235-08:00Lynn Cullen - Author Interview: CharactersPick one of your favourites among the characters from your published fiction stories or a character which is an interesting example from your published fiction. What makes this character one of your favourites or an interesting example of your fiction?
I’m attached to all of my characters. They’re like my children—I love each one of them for who they are, even if they are flawed, maybe auslit.nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01566301264416500354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7430569418034456778.post-13583264547849060332011-11-29T09:58:00.000-08:002011-11-29T10:05:17.082-08:00James Hayman - Author Interview: CharactersPick one of your favourites among the characters from your published fiction stories or a character which is an interesting example from your published fiction. What makes this character one of your favourites or an interesting example of your fiction?
The most interesting character for me to write in either of my first two books was a woman named Abby Quinn who appears in my second Michael auslit.nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01566301264416500354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7430569418034456778.post-61997675811902670782011-11-23T09:25:00.000-08:002011-11-23T09:28:05.952-08:00Leigh Cunningham - Author Interview: SettingPick one of your favourites among the settings from your published fiction stories or a setting which is an interesting example from your published fiction. What makes this setting one of your favourites or an interesting example from your fiction?
In Part IV of Rain, Carla Baden volunteers with Doctors Without Borders and spends a year living in Luanda, Angola in communal housing. At that time,auslit.nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01566301264416500354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7430569418034456778.post-4723833664484339362011-11-23T00:08:00.000-08:002011-11-23T00:13:01.666-08:00Michael White - Author Interview: Internationally Bestselling NovelistWhat kinds of fiction did you read as a child and teenager, and did you have some favourites?
I was a big science fiction fan. I would get my pocket money – about 30 pence (50 cents) and go to a used book shop in my town, buy a novel by Asimov or Arthur C Clarke and work my way through all the greats. I then moved on to Tolkien and then discovered ‘out there’ literature such as Herman Hesse, auslit.nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01566301264416500354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7430569418034456778.post-71447741657039730512011-11-22T03:58:00.000-08:002011-11-22T04:10:36.832-08:00Leigh Cunningham - Author Interview: StoryPick one of your favourites among your published fiction stories or a story which is an interesting example of published fiction. What makes this story one of your favourites or an interesting example from your fiction?
As is common in all my writing, Rain has a focus on family and relationships. I started writing Rain in 2005 and worked on it for six years until publication in April 2011. It auslit.nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01566301264416500354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7430569418034456778.post-5772572003516983522011-11-21T06:44:00.001-08:002011-11-21T07:06:12.069-08:00Elizabeth J Duncan - Author Interview: SettingPick one of your favourites among the settings from your published fiction stories or a setting which is an interesting example from your published fiction. What makes this setting one of your favourites or an interesting example from your fiction?
All my novels are set in North Wales near Snowdonia. My fictional town is called Llanelen, based on the real market town of Llanrwst. I had visited auslit.nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01566301264416500354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7430569418034456778.post-82256482796588128122011-11-21T03:24:00.001-08:002011-11-21T03:37:08.756-08:00Leigh Cunningham - Author Interview: CharactersPick one of your favourites among the characters from your published fiction stories or a character which is an interesting example from your published fiction. What makes this character one of your favourites or an interesting example of your fiction?
I enjoyed writing the character Michael Baden, the antagonist in Rain. Michael is a troubled man who carries the baggage of his childhood into auslit.nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01566301264416500354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7430569418034456778.post-68892961580133982532011-11-17T19:15:00.001-08:002011-11-17T20:35:46.133-08:00Susan Vreeland - Author Interview: Internationally Bestselling NovelistWhat kinds of fiction did you read as a child and teenager, and did you have some favourites?
As a young child, I enjoyed fairy tales, and poetry. "Winkem, Blinkem and Nod" was a favorite, as were all the selections in Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses. What I remember clearly are the drawings and watercolors accompanying these poems, and the sounds, rhymes, and rhythms. From auslit.nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01566301264416500354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7430569418034456778.post-58310287595189774432011-11-15T22:09:00.001-08:002011-11-15T22:17:06.712-08:00Megan McGrath - Author Interview: Short Story WriterWhat kinds of fiction did you read as a child and teenager, and did you have some favourites? Would you say your childhood and teenage reading has had a distinct influence on how you write fiction now, and why?
My teenage years aren’t that far behind me. I read a lot of Australian writers when I was growing up. Joanne Horniman, Tim Winton, Gary Crew and John Marsden. As an older teen, I auslit.nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01566301264416500354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7430569418034456778.post-91292826115720989762011-11-15T04:19:00.000-08:002011-11-15T04:26:02.668-08:00Kitty Sewell - Author Interview: Internationally Bestselling NovelistWhat kinds of fiction did you read as a child and teenager, and did you have some favourites?
As I'm Swedish born, I read Pippi Longstocking and all the Selma Lagerlof books, as well as The Famous five and all the Heidi books, just the sort of stuff an ordinary little girl would read. As soon as I got into my teens I read only adult fiction, searching in my parents hidden cupboards for such auslit.nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01566301264416500354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7430569418034456778.post-40687205512927657602011-11-15T01:25:00.000-08:002011-11-15T01:27:39.885-08:00David Wellington - Author Interview: Narrative StyleWhich narrative point of view (first person, second person or third person) do you use most in your fiction, or do you often use different points of view for different stories, and why?
I almost always use a limited third person omniscient POV. I have several reasons for liking it. For one, it's (in my opinion) the default way we have of processing fiction. We know we're reading a story aboutauslit.nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01566301264416500354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7430569418034456778.post-68536024392881981822011-11-14T18:50:00.001-08:002011-11-14T19:00:41.933-08:00Gwen Hayes - Author Interview: Teen/Young Adult AuthorWhat kinds of fiction did you read as a teenager, and did you have some favourites?
I went through a brief phase with the Sweet Valley High series as a teen, but there wasn't as much YA back in the olden days (1980s) so I moved right on to Stephen King, Danielle Steel, and V.C. Andrews. And, oh my goodness, we passed around Judith Krantz novels like they black market goods. So not appropriate auslit.nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01566301264416500354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7430569418034456778.post-19330876818407691032011-11-13T22:30:00.001-08:002011-11-13T22:35:28.713-08:00Megan McGrath - Author Interview: SettingPick one of your favourites among the settings from your published fiction stories or a setting which is an interesting example from your published fiction. What makes this setting one of your favourites or an interesting example from your fiction?
I write many coastal tales. Not so much for the beauty and power of the ocean, but because of the kinds of characters that forge lives on and near auslit.nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01566301264416500354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7430569418034456778.post-14688994302931098952011-11-13T18:57:00.000-08:002011-11-13T19:46:27.177-08:00Anne Michaud - Author Interview: Short Story WriterWhat kinds of fiction did you read as a teenager, and did you have some favourites?
I read everything I laid my hands on, from Sci-Fi to the Classics, fantasy, historical dramas and thrillers. Much like now, I couldn’t get enough. At 9, I wanted to be Jessica, the evil twin in Pascal’s Sweet Valley High; at 10, I dreamed of wearing a crown like Marguerite in Druon’s The Accursed Kings; at 11, I auslit.nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01566301264416500354noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7430569418034456778.post-12544933849246589552011-11-13T05:38:00.000-08:002011-11-13T05:38:31.628-08:00Alane Ferguson - Author Interview: Internationally Bestselling NovelistWhat kinds of fiction did you read as a child and teenager, and did you have some favourites?
I must confess I had my nose in a book constantly as a child and teenager, although as a teen I skipped right on to adult literature to Jane Austen and the Bronte sisters. (I refer to this as my English tea period…) When young, my favorites included Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White and Willie Wonka and auslit.nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01566301264416500354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7430569418034456778.post-34976403612809242312011-11-12T19:41:00.001-08:002011-11-12T19:47:10.886-08:00Michael Parker - Author Interview: Narrative StyleWhich narrative point of view (first person, second person or third person) do you use most in your fiction, or do you often use different points of view for different stories, and why?
Third person. It helps to include elements of the story that would be difficult in the first person. It also helps to build the story in my opinion.
Do you use present tense or past tense most in your fiction, auslit.nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01566301264416500354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7430569418034456778.post-24447636379312551882011-11-12T03:17:00.001-08:002011-11-12T03:30:35.444-08:00Janet Lee Carey - Author Interview: Internationally Bestselling NovelistWhat kinds of fiction did you read as a child and teenager, and did you have some favourites? Would you say your childhood and teenage reading has had a distinct influence on how you write fiction now, and why?
Internationally Bestselling Novelist? Hum -- my books are translated into many languages and Wenny Has Wings (Atheneum, 2002) was such a smashing success in Japan, Sony Pictures made it auslit.nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01566301264416500354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7430569418034456778.post-58989022563037062812011-11-12T02:16:00.001-08:002011-11-12T02:29:56.249-08:00Michael Parker - Author Interview: StoryPick one of your favourites among your published fiction stories or a story which is an interesting example of published fiction. What makes this story one of your favourites or an interesting example from your fiction?
THE DEVIL’S TRINITY. This was an attempt of mine to write a thriller about international terrorism. But instead of using the standard technique of suicide bombers etc. I used an auslit.nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01566301264416500354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7430569418034456778.post-13533073633812399812011-11-12T01:52:00.001-08:002011-11-12T02:01:16.962-08:00Alane Ferguson - Author Interview: Teen/Young Adult NovelistWhat kinds of fiction did you read as a teenager, and did you have some favourites?
As to what kinds of fiction I used to read as a teenager, I confess as a teen I skipped over teen fiction and went right on to adult literature to Jane Austen and the Bronte sisters. (I refer to this as my English tea period…) I also remember falling in love with Rhett Butler in Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With auslit.nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01566301264416500354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7430569418034456778.post-34387675343336450322011-11-11T19:06:00.001-08:002011-11-11T19:17:17.208-08:00Kaylie Newell - Author Interview: Debut NovelistWhat kinds of fiction did you read as a child and teenager, and did you have some favourites?
As a child, I read a lot of fiction about animals. Horses in particular. I was a horse nut! I read every book in The Black Stallion series, some of them twice. As I got older, I read a lot of romance. My mom always had Harlequins lying around, so I started early on those (earlier than my mom auslit.nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01566301264416500354noreply@blogger.com2