by Virginia Lloyd | Feb 5, 2008 | Blog, Memoir
It is part of the world’s nature and of our own to break, ruin and destroy; but it is also our nature and the world’s to find ways to mend what has been broken. So writes novelist Michael Chabon in this impassioned, eloquent rallying call to US citizens to...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jan 27, 2008 | Blog, Improve your writing
I’m thrilled to report that David Kowalski has won the Golden Aurealis Award for best Australian speculative fiction work of 2007 for his novel The Company of the Dead. He won the category award for best science fiction novel, then went on to win the overall...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jan 27, 2008 | Blog, Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement
A rather lovely title for a snippet about my book that featured in the Sydney Morning Herald’s book pages over the weekend. And a photo (in what has been described as my pink “nurse’s shirt”) to boot. I was unaware of the piece until I rang my...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jan 14, 2008 | Blog, Improve your writing, Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement
It’s begun: over the weekend I responded to a series of questions put to me via email by a magazine in which my book is receiving its first public review. In addition to answering a few factual and straightforward queries, I had to address others such as: Why...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jan 8, 2008 | Blog, Improve your writing, Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement
I have been invited to participate in the Sydney Writers Festival, which takes place in May 2008, and the Byron Bay Writers Festival in July, on the back of The Young Widow’s Book of Home Improvement. Apparently the book publishers undertake some kind of beauty...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jan 6, 2008 | Blog, Improve your writing
Life would be nothing without its unexpected twists and turns. A little over two years ago I met Stefano Maccianti in a pensione in Siena, where I was staying and he was briefly working. It turns out Stefano was a writer whose first novel was about to be published,...