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 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,...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jan 1, 2008 | Blog, Improve your writing, Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement
One of the casualties of my rough re-entry to life in Sydney in the past two months has been this blog, which served the original purpose of keeping friends and family informed, and occasionally amused, about aspects of my life in New York during 2006-07. From the...
by Virginia Lloyd | Dec 17, 2007 | Blog, Improve your writing
At Bennelong Point on Sunday afternoon I was happily anticipating the inaugural session of the Sydney Opera House Talks series, an important addition to Sydney’s cultural landscape. One of my favourite contemporary creative minds, playwright Tom Stoppard, was...