Zzzzz… my blog is snoozing
27. Aug, 2011
As I’m busy writing, my blog has gone into hibernation for a while. All my old posts are still up if you’d like to browse, and latest news is available via my website: www.sarafoster.com.au.
Where oh where has my reading time gone?
16. Jun, 2011
Not since April, when I found two brilliant books in the same month – Jasper Jones (Craig Silvey) and After the Fall (Kylie Ladd) – have I read a novel from start to finish. It’s incredibly frustrating, because I love curling up on the sofa for a regular dose of escapism, but my problem is [...]
Aussie Author Month
07. Apr, 2011
I’m delighted to be a part of Aussie Author month. I’ll be writing a guest post for Reading Adventures next week, reflecting on my recent book tour. Meanwhile, I’m devoting the month to reading as many Aussie books as I can, both classics and new releases. I’ll report back at the end of the month, [...]
Perth Writers Festival #4: Words I’ll remember
15. Mar, 2011
‘The book is too perfect to disappear. Bookstores are fading, but there are also bookstores surviving.’ Annie Proulx ‘Living in a flat in the city it is almost impossible to have a sense of connection to place’ Tim Flannery ‘a still–Volcano–Life’ Lyndall Gordon quoting Emily Dickinson ‘the frontiers of consciousness, where words fail, but meaning [...]
Perth Writers Festival #3: Fiction discussion at its finest
11. Mar, 2011
To begin with, I was drawn to the writers in the session entitled ‘Reverberations from the past’ more than the topic. Natasha Lester is a friend of mine, whose beautifully crafted book, What is Left Over, After, won the TAG Hungerford in 2009, and I’ve read and heard so much about Gail Jones’ and Jon Bauer’s books [...]
Perth Writers Festival #2: The death of print?
10. Mar, 2011
On Sunday morning I attended a Perth Writers Festival session discussing the future of printed books in this world of rapid, almost rabid, technological change. I was completely engrossed listening to the panel of Geordie Williamson (chief literary critic of the Australian), James Bradley (novelist), Lev Grossman (novelist) and Angela Meyer (writer, Literary Minded blog) [...]
Perth Writers Festival #1: Going… going…
08. Mar, 2011
I’ve attended the Perth Writers Festival every year since I arrived in WA back in 2004, and I always seem to forget just how damn inspiring it is – that is, until I’m back in the auditoriums, listening to beautiful, radical, compelling and disturbing ideas, whereupon it all comes rushing back to me. Last year [...]
That sinking feeling…and yet…
17. Feb, 2011
It doesn’t seem like a very good time to be part of the book publishing business. The industry is in a parlous state of flux – publishers and agents appear stressed and depressed, and many bookshops are struggling. In my local area I have watched two lovely independent bookshops open, flounder, and close in the [...]
The Reading Revolution
18. Jan, 2011
I am currently reading one of the longest, most talked about books of last year on my smallest new device. Jonathan Frantzen’s Freedom is over two thousand pages long on my iPhone, and it is the first book I have ever downloaded to it. The writing is way too small, and with a wayward swish [...]
There’s nothing wrong with being popular!
29. Sep, 2010
I was very excited this morning to read Jessica Rudd’s blog on Mama Mia, speaking out in defence of chick lit and commercial fiction. Go Jessica! While my books don’t fall easily into the chick lit category (they are a bit too dark, although they usually have at least one female chick-lit-style character doing her [...]
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