by Garrick | May 13, 2022 | Australia's Son, Author notes, Author stuff, The Boys of Bullaroo, The Cricketer's Arms, The Seventh of December, Wheelchair
About writing The Servants of the Crown a little bit about male mistresses and molly boys in the 19th century ***** I write LGBTQ historical fiction, mostly with some sort of relationship running through the story. I’d be lying if I said I wrote romances in the...
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...
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...
by Garrick | Jun 28, 2019 | The Boys of Bullaroo
What does it feel like seeing your first book fledge and leave the nest? If I can paraphrase a line or two from Stephen Sondheim’s “Into the Woods” “And it made me feel excited, Well, excited and scared.” That’s how I felt: reluctant to let go, mainly because...
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...
