by Virginia Lloyd | Sep 6, 2015 | Blog, Client book news and links
Here’s my client Jenny Ackland’s wrap-up of the launch of her novel The Secret Son a few days ago. It was a large crowd at the Bella Union in Melbourne. Jenny did a very smart thing by wearing a flaming red dress so everyone could see her. There are...
by Virginia Lloyd | Aug 27, 2015 | Blog, Client book news and links
The Secret Son explores the provocative idea that Australian bushranger Ned Kelly had a son James, who not only fought in Gallipoli, but stayed in Turkey and lived out his life in a remote mountain village. Cem, a troubled young Turkish-Australian man, comes to the...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jul 28, 2015 | Blog, Client book news and links
After more than a year of communicating via telephone and email, it was great to meet my client Kellie Arrowsmith today in person in Sydney. She’s in town promoting her memoir SKIMPY, a fast-paced story of her adventures in the outback. (The title comes from her...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jul 13, 2015 | Blog, Client book news and links
‘The sharp, riveting narrative of Becoming Westerly deserves to transcend the tiny canon of surf writing and be recognized as a work of mainstream literary nonfiction,’ writes Andrew Lewis in his thoughtful review of my client Jamie Brisick’s...
by Virginia Lloyd | Mar 26, 2015 | Blog, Client book news and links, Editorial Development, Memoir
Being based in Sydney again I am happy to be able to attend client events in person — such as the Sydney launch this week of Anna Bligh’s important memoir, Through the Wall, at HarperCollins HQ. I was Anna’s development editor. What that means is...
by Virginia Lloyd | Nov 4, 2014 | Blog, Client book news and links
I am delighted with today’s news that Lily Brett won the major French literary award, the Prix Medicis, for a work in translation for her novel Lola Bensky. It’s a major vindication for Lily’s writing, and a proud moment for me as her long-time...