Today our featured book segment is brought to you by Ultimo Press and we are delighted to be talking to Alex Sarkis about her debut novel SOMETHING BLUE.
- Check out the book trailer for Something Blue on YouTube
- Follow Alex on Instagram
- Alex recommends Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton
Alex Sarkis was born and raised in Sydney’s West to Lebanese immigrant parents. In her early twenties, she began writing stories of her own. For the past 10 years, it’s been her enduring dream and passion to be a writer and to produce good work that readers will love. Her main source of inspiration has always been the wild and wonderful landscape of her hometown, her family’s heritage, and the pride she feels in being an Australian.
Kate and Katherine discuss:
- Kit and Arlo Find a Way by Ingrid Laguna and Vanessa Hamilton
- ‘Method Writing and the Limits of Research’ by Anna S (Kill Your Darlings)
- How to Academy podcast, inc this episode with Elizabeth Gilbert and Julia Cameron, and this one with Pandora Sykes and Tina Brown
- The Artists Way by Julia Cameron
- Bootstrap by Georgina Young
- Brotherhood Books
- Unreal: A Critical History of Reality TV (podcast)
- Sicker in the Head by Judd Apatow
- Candy House by Jennifer Egan
- Marshmallow by Victoria Hannan
- You Have a Friend in 10A by Maggie Shipstead
- Marshmallow by Victoria Hannan
- Willowman by Inga Simpson
- Let Them All Talk (great article on the making of this)
- Stranger Things S1
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