SET against the colourful backdrop of the North Shore, artist Jo Josephsen captured in images the humour and drama of a story told by her mother. Josephsen, of Killara, relished working as part of the mother-daughter team bringing the area to life in The Amazing Adventures of Claude and Albert. Author Patricia Woolfrey – Josephsen’s [...]
{ 0 comments }
How often have you wondered is it worth going on, am I ever going to get published, am I ever going to get the recognition I deserve? That’s why today I’m bringing you what I think is a pretty remarkable inspirational story. Thirty years ago Larry Rushton, now a semi-retired musician entered a talent contest [...]
{ 0 comments }
Film scripts are written to be produced as drama rather than read as literature. Finished screenplays are a blueprint – a starting point in the production process rather than an end point in their own right. Screenwriting is very technical and does not come naturally to anybody – it is a skill and craft that [...]
{ 0 comments }
Sean Sommerville was a Vancouver police officer that is until he won The Province’s Sunday Serial Thriller writing contest in 2006. Sean has now been published in seven countries including the UK, Germany, Australia, and Ireland. Proof, if proof were needed that a win in a major writing contest can fast track an author into [...]
{ 0 comments }
It’s difficult, dam difficult, getting that first big break, that book deal. You often wonder: ‘why bother?’ In truth it’s not just bad luck, or bad writing on your behalf a large amount of the difficulty is down to the reader and the publisher. A lot of books these days are not only published in [...]
{ 0 comments }
