by Virginia Lloyd | Nov 27, 2011 | Blog, Memoir, Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement
Tonight I learned that Australian filmmaker Sarah Watt died earlier this month. Sometimes I’m a little slow on the uptake – it was more than three weeks ago. She leaves behind a body of award-winning work, a loving husband, and two teenage children. This...
by Virginia Lloyd | Sep 28, 2011 | Blog, Improve your writing, Memoir, Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement
I discovered Gail Caldwell’s first book, the memoir A Strong West Wind, in a rare moment of serendipitous book-buying in an old-fashioned bookstore. Reading other people’s memoirs that year while writing my own, I selected A Strong West Wind because I was...
by Virginia Lloyd | May 22, 2011 | Blog, Improve your writing, Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement
That we have all survived literary blogger Maud Newton’s 40th birthday – it fell on the same day as the rapture that wasn’t – is no excuse for you not to read her fabulous piece in The Awl about that coincidence. To celebrate our survival, I...
by Virginia Lloyd | Oct 31, 2010 | Blog, Improve your writing, Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement
I was honoured to discover that acclaimed author, public speaker, and spiritual commentator Dr Stephanie Dowrick referred to my memoir, The Young Widow’s Book of Home Improvement, in her most recent column for The Good Weekend, the magazine supplement to the...
by Virginia Lloyd | Oct 10, 2010 | Blog, Improve your writing, Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement
Following my Memoir Editing workshop at the 2010 Byron Bay Writers Festival in August, I was asked to write an article about the process of writing memoir for the magazine writestuff. For those of you attempting to write a memoir, or for someone you think might be...
by Virginia Lloyd | Sep 15, 2009 | Blog, Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement
The promotion for the paperback of The Young Widow’s Book of Home Improvement is underway now that I’m back in Sydney and calibrated to local time. I am doing some radio interviews tomorrow, with ABC Central Coast and ABC Alice Springs, the latter for whom...