This episode our Featured Book is The Golden Book by Kate Ryan.
- Check out this interview with Better Reading and this review of The Golden Book by Readings
- Kate recommends debut book Love and Virtue by Diana Reid
Our Masters Series interview is with Hazel Edwards.
Hazel Edwards is an award-winning author of books for children and adults. Her beloved picture book series There’s a Hippopotamus on Our Roof Eating Cake has been hugely popular for almost forty years, inspiring a musical stage production and a short movie. Though that might be her best known work, Hazel has published over 220 books, across a wide of subjects and genres including easy reading books for newly independent readers, her memoir Not Just a Piece of Cake, non-fiction including Authorpreneurship (on the business of creativity), Writing a Non-Boring Family History and Non-Boring Travel Writing, plus multiple collaborations.
Our conversation covers:
- Making a living as a writer
- Working with an editor
- How technology dates in books
- Why you need to continue to grow as a person in order to write
- Advice: Don’t write a novel about a novelist writing a novel about a novelist writing a novel…
- Mentoring
- Collaboration including this joint authorship contract template from the ASA
- Co-writing F to M The Boy Within with Ryan Kennedy
- Co-writing Hijabi Girl with Ozge Alkan
Larrikan Puppets has adapted Hijabi Girl into a puppet musical, which will premier during Book Week on Tuesday 23 August 2022, 10:30am at the Kingston Butterbox Theatre in Brisbane. Book Here. Hazel will attending the premier performance.
Instead of a debut book, Hazel recommends Australian authors Sherryl Clark and Sophie Masson.
Other writers Hazel recommends are: A Macca’s Memoir by Michele Layet, Blindness for Beginners by Maribel Steel, The Hidden Diffability by Lyndal Kennedy, Second Chinese Daughter by Shirley Fung.
ID: Black tile with the words: Introducing The Golden Book Kate Ryan. The cover of The Golden Book is shown and has the back of two young girls walking. There is a photo of the author, a white woman with bob-length hair and her hands on her hips, smiling.
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