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 | 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...
by Garrick | Jan 13, 2019 | The Seventh of December
When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbour on the 7th of December, 1941, the United States declared war on the Japanese Empire. As a result, and with the expectation that mobilisation and a call to enlist would happen shortly, the powers that be decided...
