Author Archives: carolynswriting
Endless possibilities
A bit of an update on my latest YA manuscript, Ella, which won me a writing residence at Varuna this year. I wrote about winning this in September last year but forgot to say how it actually went. I chose … Continue reading
Facing Up is Five!
It’s October 2019, which means my YA novel Facing Up is having a birthday! It’s reached the grand old age of five, and I thought that was worthy of a blog post 🙂 Facing Up was the second manuscript I … Continue reading
A work in progress (or two)
Hmm, the blog posts are getting further and further apart. But I am still here, still writing, and mostly present on Bookstagram, my happy place of books, authors, readers and bloggers. It’s not a coincidence that many of the accounts … Continue reading
Happy New Year and all that
It’s been a slow year on the blogging front, but I’m happy to say I’m doing a lot more work on my manuscripts instead, so that evens things out in my opinion. While I don’t have any solid news about the … Continue reading
Varuna
Some exciting news! I’ve won a Varuna Residential Fellowship for 2019 🙂 This is an amazing opportunity for Australian writers – basically it’s a writing retreat in Katoomba, in the beautiful, mystical Blue Mountains just west of Sydney. It’s two … Continue reading
Spiderwebs of contacts
I used to hate the idea of networking – to me, it was just another buzzword, and involved people having drinks, swapping business cards and earnestly talking at each other about their work, without really connecting personally. In my early … Continue reading
It’s all about you… or me… or us
Australia’s in the middle of a campaign right now to cut out single-use plastic bags, straws, bottles, etc. And it’s making me think about human behaviour. How often do you ignore something wrong, something as simple as a discarded can … Continue reading
