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The Serious Business of Writing a Series

by Garrick | Feb 6, 2021 | Australia's Son, Author notes, Author stuff, The Boys of Bullaroo, The Cricketer's Arms, The Seventh of December, Wheelchair

    The Serious Business of Writing a Series. This year, my publisher will be putting out the second books in each of the two series that I’ve been writing over a number of years. The Gilded Madonna is book #2 in the Clyde Smith Mysteries, and X for Extortion is book...

Wheelchair. The Research and Writing the Story.

by Garrick | Sep 4, 2020 | Australia's Son, Author notes, Author stuff, Wheelchair

          Wheelchair – the story behind the book.       Wheelchair was an unusual story for me to write on two counts. The first is that it’s my first contemporary novel, and secondly there’s a lot of undisguised personal...

Finding the voice when writing historical fiction.

by Garrick | Mar 1, 2020 | Australia's Son, Author notes, The Boys of Bullaroo, The Cricketer's Arms, The Seventh of December

    Finding the voice when writing historical fiction.   One of the hardest things, after crafting a story, is getting the voice right for the period in which you’re writing. It has to be authentic, right? But yet it also has to be readable. One...

RESEARCH. Writing historical novels, and why it counts.

by Garrick | Aug 24, 2019 | Australia's Son

My writing buddy, Brad, keeps urging me to write about my current works in progress and about other books I’ve written that are soon to see the light of day. I thought I’d combine this blog post with a bit of a rant about a passion of mine—research....

THE CIRCLE OF FRIENDS

by Garrick | Jun 28, 2019 | Australia's Son, The Boys of Bullaroo, The Cricketer's Arms, The Seventh of December

  The Circle of Friends Life for gay men in Sydney in the 1950s. A personal experience.   Caught up in the wake of McCarthyism in the USA, which spread worldwide in the West, anyone considered a non-conformist was punished by censure and marginalisation at...

Recent Posts

  • The Serious Business of Writing a Series February 6, 2021
  • Wheelchair. The Research and Writing the Story. September 4, 2020
  • Finding the voice when writing historical fiction. March 1, 2020
  • RESEARCH. Writing historical novels, and why it counts. August 24, 2019
  • WRITING THE BOYS OF BULLAROO – An Interview June 28, 2019
  • THE CIRCLE OF FRIENDS June 28, 2019
  • FIGHTING PROUD – A Review June 23, 2019
  • THE SEVENTH OF DECEMBER – discrimination during WW2 January 13, 2019
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