![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() On editorial notes: ‘There’s always the clear understanding that you can take them or leave them.I end up always taking about 80% of the notes because they’re always generally great. She wrote adult and young adult novels including Closed for Winter, Candelo, The Blind Eye, Names for Nothingness, Darkwater, Too Close to Home, Snake in the Grass, Strange Times, and Special. Before becoming a full-time author, she worked as a copyright lawyer and a journalist. ‘I don’t feel like I’ve ever really been in a literary world that much’ Georgia Blain was born on Decemin Australia. ‘Years go by without ever showing anyone a word…I get it as good as I can possibly get it without burying it in the garden for six months' ‘A writer uses time like a painter uses light - without time you can’t even see what it is that you’ve done.’ ![]() In 2016, Georgia published Between a Wolf and a Dog and the YA novel Special (Penguin Random House Australia). Featuring: Steve Toltz's new book Here Goes Nothing and why it’s set in the afterlife using time in the writing process like a painter uses light Steve’s spiritual home juggling editorial notes from different countries the overarching project of Steve’s work a short reading on writing humour and hilarious characters (who are also very entertaining to write) his experience in writers' rooms, how Steve first got an agent his play that didn't eventuate what's next and some wonderful reading recommendations. Georgias works include The Secret Lives of Men, Too Close to Home, and the YA novel Darkwater. In this haunting collection of short stories, Georgia Blain explores human nature in all its richness: our motivations, our desires and our shortcomings. ![]()
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