Category: Issue Twelve Interviews
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Interview with Christa Hill: A Beautiful Accident
By Jilliean Soison Producer and freelancer Christa Hill shares how, by being adaptable and having the right support systems in place, she was able to overcome the disadvantages and hurdles that come with being a neuro-diverse creative. Tell us a little about yourself and your role in the film and TV industry? My name is…
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Interview with Catherine Therese
Being understanding even in the most challenging circumstances. By Louise Sapphira There is not one emotion to explain how a reader can feel, because it can be based on the perspective taken. One way to describe Catherine Therese’s fictional novel Things She Would Have Said Herself is that it gives so many layers to the…
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Interview with Wendy J. Dunn
Interview by Ellen Irwin Australian author Wendy J. Dunn has long had a passion for Tudor history—a passion inspiring award-winning fiction that gives a unique voice to Tudor-era figures. One such figure is Catherine Carey, the daughter of Mary Boleyn and favourite of Elizabeth I, and the star of Dunn’s 2014 novel, The Light in…
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Interview with Jacqueline Ross: A childhood home, its history, and its influence on our existence
By Louise Sapphira Australian history within a derelict setting along our own coastlines can seep into our worlds and those around us. The Australian gothic novel Blackwater is about pregnant Grace and her husband King Hammond, who return to his childhood home to visit his father in his final days. The novel explores Australian convict settlement history…
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Interview with Robyn Cadwallader: Time has travelled but the warmth in our hearts has stayed
By Louise Sapphira Centuries can pass, but relating to the pain and the injustices that people have and continue to experience is still powerful Historical fiction can speak to the reader about the present by engaging with the past. In The Fire and the Rose, Robyn Cadwallader achieves this by depicting the expulsion of Jews…
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Interview with Katya de Beccera: Haunted by the desire to know the truth.
By Louise Sapphira Valuing the importance of family, whilst also staying true to your beliefs. Young adult fiction can have as many twists and turns, hopes and tribulations as adult fiction. The category allows the reader to relate with the protagonists and their stories, by drawing attention to our own youth – past or present.…