My fascination with the macabre began as a child when I sat rapt watching Bela Lugosi and his vampire brides in the 1931 black and white classic, Dracula, on our TV in the family room. I was perhaps 6.
Pandora English E-Card Halloween Comp and Book Giveaway
A big congratulations to Julia Robertson for winning our Pandora English themed e-card comp with her clever entry.
Pandora English returns in The Skeleton Key
Pandora English returns in her third novel, The Skeleton Key, publishing December 1, 2012. In The Spider Goddess she faced her most formidable foe yet, but things are certainly not about to get easier for Pandora or for Spektor, the mysterious Manhattan suburb that...
The Invisible Women
Those of you who are familiar with my blog will know that I have some interest in women’s rights and representation in parliament, the media, literature and film.
The Count Is Out.
The Count’ is out. According to the latest statistics published today by VIDA, in 2011 we again saw a clear gender bias in the literary world – unconscious or otherwise…
Literary Gender Bias. The After-Blog.
It’s true that in every individual circumstance it can be argued that the novel by the male writer is the better one, and it may well be the case that year, or the next, or even the next. But over time, a bias becomes clear.
Are our Sisters In Crime (still) fighting against a male-dominated literary world?
(* This post has been transferred from my old website. Please excuse the formatting.) As mentioned in my last post, this past weekend Sisters in Crime held a rare and wonderful women crime writers' convention in Melbourne, called SheKilda. Why women? Why Sisters In...
Sisters In Crime gather at SheKilda
Sisters in Crime Australia formed 20 years ago, and this past weekend they held SheKilda Women Crime Writers’ Convention in Melbourne.