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This week Amy leads us through using beat sheets to plan and/or fix a story. Alex and Sean join in from where they recline eating salty gold Irish chocolate. It's the middle of teaching and everyone's pinch points are more pinchy than usual, but it's nothing gold-plated chocolate can't fix. If you're curious about how story experts like Michael Hauge, Blake Snyder, Larry Brooks and Jami Gold deal with planning Acts One to Three, this is the ep for you. There are sportsball metaphors, car metaphors, and the word 'blue' gets bandied about, especially when the monkey elbows get a mention - but despite it all, you'll still come away with a good idea of how to use a beat sheet to get your acts together. (And yes, there are many silly jokes about the term beat sheet - insert word 'blue' here).

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There is a secret to writing a bestseller and it is...nah, kidding...nobody knows. But the Word Docs will keep asking people anyway. This week, the dysfunctional trio bend their knees at the altar of the great men who...nah, kidding...Sean has sorted through the rules of the blokey gasbags who’ve come before and now Amy and Alex are trying to decide who wrote what.Join the party asVonnegut, Heinlein, Leonard and Lewis are meticulously poked, prodded and dissected for the edification of emerging generations. Rules are made to be splintered, but it’s wise to mock them first.

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“The Disappearance of Astrid Bricard” is loosely based on the life of Mitzah Bricard, a woman the world remembers as the outrageous muse of Christian Dior but who was, in fact, his First Assistant Designer and enormously talented in her own right. What follows is a compelling tale of glamour, desire and intrigue.

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“Summer of Blood” is set in 1960s California where two Australian detectives arrive in search of a missing man, only to find themselves immersed in the world of music, free love, drugs and hippie counterculture. They soon realise this isn’t any ordinary missing person investigation. A big gig is the perfect place to get away with murder!

Guests:

Natasha Lester, author of “The Disappearance of Astrid Bricard” and other historical fiction titles including “The Three Lives of Alix St Pierre” & “The French Photographer”.

Dave Warner, author of “Summer of Blood” …plus nine other novels and six non-fiction books.

Leigh, our everyday reader, mentions “Ulysses” by James Joyce, “Where the Crawdads Sing” by Delia Owens, “Long Live the Queen: 23 Rules for Living from Britain’s Longest-Reigning Monarch” by Brian Koslowski and “A Mind at Home with Itself: How Asking Four Questions Can Free Your Mind, Open Your Heart, and Turn Your World Around” by Byron Katie with Stephen Mitchell

Cath and Annie also mention the Booker shortlisted title, “The Bee Sting” by Paul Murray.

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Leaving the world of academia when creativity came knocking haspaid off for Pip Williams. She's the bestselling author of The Dictionary of Lost Words and The Bookbinder of Jericho, and speaks with Sarah about the ideas that light her up and inspire her to write.

In this conversation, Pip refers to the following books that were references for her writing:The Surgeon of Crowthorne by Simon WinchesterTestament of Youth by Vera Brittain

Also written by Pip Williams, One Italian Summer.

Pip Williams:Web -https://pipwilliams.com.au/

Affirm Press:https://affirmpress.com.au/FB+ Insta:@affirmpress

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In Cronin’s “The Ferryman” the world’s elite enjoy eternal youth and deep personal satisfaction on the archipelago of Prospera but all is not as it seems and unrest is fomenting on both sides of the social divide.

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Georgia Nicholls has been writing romance since she was 14 and penned a fan fiction tale about One Direction’s Harry Styles…her writing has come a long way since then but she still loves it when they live happily ever after.

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Eve gives a brief review of “The Mother” by Jane Caro, but don’t worry she won’t spoil the ending.

Guests

Justin Cronin, author of “The Ferryman” and “The Passage Trilogy”

Georgia Nicholls is a PhD Candidate in creative writing at Flinders University. Her podcast is called “Love on Campus” and her instagram romance reviews appear at “booksithinkabout”

Eve enjoyed “The Mother” by Jane Caro

Justin mentions “Interview with a Vampire” by Ann Rice and the 1968 film “Planet of the Apes”.

Georgia mentions “A Court of Thorns and Roses” by Sarah J. Maas, “Duck À L'Orange for Breakfast” by Karina May, “The Flat Share”, The Road Trip” and “The No Show” by Beth O’Leary and the author Emily Henry.

Michaela mentions romance authors Georgette Heyer, Jane Austen and “Ex-wife” by Ursula Parrott.

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@jccronn

@penguinrandomhouse

@booksithinkabout

@janecaro57

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Let author Catherine Therese introduce you to Leslie Bird, a fictional character so caustic she’ll make your eyes water. Yet, as Michaela discovered, the story behind Leslie’s creation is more likely to bring a sympathetic tear to your eye.

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The course of Australian art changed in 1971 with the formation of the Papunya Tula art movement. John Kean, was there to witness its birth and tells Cath what forces he believes inspired and informed the movement’s four leading lights.

Guests

Catherine Therese, author of “Things She Would Have Said Herself” and an earlier memoir “The Weight of Silence”

John Keane, author of “Dot, Circle and Frame; The making of Papunya Tula Art”

Michaela mentions “Mrs Dalloway” by Virginia Woolf

Catherine mentions Walt Whitman, Henry Lawson and David Grossman

(Maybe also “The Day is Dancing” by Rowena Bennett)

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@hachetteaustralia
@hachettebooks

@terriann.white

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@Terri-Ann White

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The fates of three people from the 1940s, ‘70s and today collide in Chris Hammer’s thrilling new mystery, “The Tilt” - you won’t see it coming!

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Prolific 20th century writer and philosopher Aldous Huxley wrote everything from witty and malicious novels about the British literati  to his still famous Utopian dystopia Brave New World, and later in his 50 year career went on to explore the world of psychedelic drugs. Annie Warburton explores the Huxley ouvre to understand why Huxley remains a classic.

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Our random reader Chris also loves a good mystery

Guests…

Chris Hammer, author of “The Tilt” and other books including the internationally bestselling Martin Scarsden series: “Scrublands”, “Silver” and “Trust”.

Annie Warburton, Tsundoku’s “Occasional Reporter on Dead White Men” revists Aldoux Huxley

Other books that get a mention…

Annie and Michaela mention “Ghost Tattoo” by Tony Bernard, “Birnam Wood”and “The Luminaries” by Eleanor Catton, “The Ferryman; A Novel” by Justin Cronin and “The Disorganisation of Celia Stone” by Emma Young

Annie Warburton mentions Aldous Huxley’s “Crome Yellow” (1921), “Antic Hay” (1923), “Brave New World:  (1932), “Eyeless in Gaza” (1936), “The Doors of Perception” (1954)..as well as writers Nancy Mitford, Evelyn Waugh and William Blake

Chris from Aldgate mentions writers Peter May, Ian Rankin and DH Lawrence’s “The Rainbow”

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@allenandunwin

@thehammernow

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@Hammernow

@allen&unwinbooks

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Best-selling Australian authors, Sean Williams, Victoria Perman and Tricia Stringer, talk to Tsundoku’s Sarah Martin and Cath Kenneally about their very different paths to literary success - Tricia dabbled in self-publishing, Victoria succeeded in speed dating a publisher and Sean tried the splatter gun approach with short stories.

Victoria identified the single thread common to all three quests,  “ We all immersed ourselves in writing communities. We didn’t sit at home and get a bit paranoid about whether it was good or not. We went to workshops, we befriended booksellers…there are places to go to connect with writers which was so important.”

Tsundoku Podcast was delighted to convene this Marion Council “Meet the Author” Event in July 2023.

Guests:

Tricia Stringer is the bestselling author of six women’s fiction titles, “Back on Track”, “Table for Eight”, “The Model Wife”, “The Family Inheritance”, “Birds of a Feather” and “Keeping Up Appearances”, three historical books set in South Australia’s Flinders Ranges and seven rural romances.

Sean Williams is the bestselling author of over one hundred short stories and fifty award-winning books including the “Books of the Cataclysm” and “The Resurrected Man”. He has also written several novels in the Star Wars universe, including the best-selling “Star Wars: The Force Unleashed”.

Victoria Purman writes historical romance and is an Australian top ten and “USA Today” best-selling fiction author. Her books include “The Nurse’s War’, “The Women’s Pages” and “Under the Outback Sky”

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Best selling Australian author of “rural noir”, Garry Disher hopes to be seen as novelist first and crime writer second.

American Academic Saar Shahar discusses what sets literary journalism apart from the pack.

Paul Gough shares the books that first made him fall for sci-fi . 

Three great minds in this week’s episode, determined to rise above the throng and give us something worth reading.

Guests:

Garry Disher, author of “Days End”, the fourth book in his fabulous Hirsch series.

Saar Shahar, author of “Among the Anti-vaxxers” recently published in the “North American Review” and American academic with the University of Southern California.

Paul Gough, ABC radio producer, sci-fi devotee and music aficionado www.pimpod.com

Other books that get a mention:

Saar mentions Tom Wolfe’s “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test”, “The Right Stuff” and “Bonfire of the Vanities”. Also, “One flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” by Ken Kesey. And, literary journalists Joan Didion and Hunter S Thompson.

(“The American Review” was the first literary magazine to be published in the USA, in Boston in 1815.)

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https://www.instagram.com/sarshahar

Paul mentions “Ringworld” by Larry Niven, “Turtle Diary” & “Riddley Walker’ by Russel Hoban and “To Sleep in a Sea of Stars” by Christopher Paolini.

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They’ve emerged from the marking void! Alive and insane, the Word Docs discuss activities, opportunities, Nic Cage, scientology, chaotic planning, Nosferatu, spiders, inch ants and hungry catfish... Eventually, they may also get around to discussing their books. You never know.

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