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Julia Quinn – Evoking the scene: effective dialogue for writers Dialogue affects every asplect of your manuscript from voice to characterisation, pacing to point of view Dialogue has two parts: how you speak and what you say – We are not writing screenplays, we are writing novels – Placement of tag lines can depict who […]
Juliet Marillier – The Selkie Song Elemental lore and creatures In folklore and mythology, each element – earth, air, fire, water- has its share of uncanny beings. Elements in a subsistence culture People were dependent on the elements for survival – flood, fire, landslide or storm could wipe out a settlement, sink a fishing fleet, destroy […]
Alex Adsett (moderator), Abby Zidle (Simon & Schuster NY), Nina Bruhns (Entangled Publishing), Sheila Hudgson (Harlequin Mulls & Boon London), Bernadette Foley (Hachette Publishing), Kate Cuthbert (Escape Publishing), Alisa Krasnostein (Twelth Planet Press) Kate: Escape – Harlequin’s digital first imprint. Looking for riskier titles, niche titles, cross genre, also traditional romance. Submit via website, agented […]
Margaret Marbury (Vice President, Harlequin Single Title – HQN, Mira, Luna) and Sheila Hodgson (HMB London) – signed more than 40 new series authors this year – global writing contest ‘so you think you can write’ – Think Support – start to finish support – end to end career support – last year launched Harlequin […]
Julia Quinn gave the opening keynote address. Dream: to be an organised person – some people can live in glorious chaos and yet put their hands on everything instantly. She is not one of those people. – when she loses something, is forced to clean in order to find it – having a ‘To Do’ […]
Helen Fordham (Notre Dame University) and Barbara Milech (Curtain University) – Romance, Romantic Love, and the ‘want of a fortune’ – Contemporary popular romance has a generic history – it is anchored in the rise of the novel – like the 18th century novel, popular romance purveys bourgeois assumptions and values in regard to women, […]
Bridget Ransome (University of South Australia) – Sex and Sensibility: The pursuit and recognition of reality through analysis of romance fiction in popular culture – The notion of ‘culture’ is often applied to such things as classical works of literature, music and the arts, with the term ‘cultured’ considered applicable to an elite level within […]
Helen Fordham (Notre Dame University) – Destabilising Divides and Re-imagining Subjectives: The Romance of Eloisa James First of all, there was a session between Jennifer Kloester’s Heyer panel and this one. Dr Rachel Robertson of Curtin University did a presentation called Counting on love?: mental illness and romantic engagement in Toni Jordan’s Addition. It was […]
Dr Jennifer Kloester (University of Melbourne) – Writing History, reflecting history: Georgette Heyer’s Recency Novels in Context b 1902 d 1974 – has never been out of print since 1919 (The Black Moth) – changing perceptions of her work – her own, publisher, reader – 20th century woman with Edwardian perceptions – wrote novels in […]
Bronwyn Parry / Bronwyn Clarke – The Distance Between: Romance readers, authors, publishers and the book industry in Australia Context – Rapid change – readers’ social connections – readers’ book-buying patterns – shifts in book retailing – digital books, paper books and distributors – territorial rights – authors publications choices Reading is individual, but has […]