Louise Cusack

Louise Cusack   Passion What’s your number one piece of advice for writing love scenes? Good editing! I’m all for writing the scene in the heat of the moment, tapping into the visceral and emotional changes that happen for characters. But once the draft is down, it has to be honed. In the same way […]

Lea Payne

  For twenty years, Lea Payne ran the hugely popular Lea’s Book Exchange in Queensland’s Airlie Beach. Though she is now semi-retired, Lea still works part-time at the shop – now renamed Beach Book Boutique. It’s a beautiful treasure-trove of books old and new and stands proudly by the lagoon in town. Palm trees, blue […]

Jenn J McLeod

    Jenn J. McLeod Past Let’s start at the beginning. When did you write your very first book? It is providence perhaps that the first draft of my very first manuscript was titled: Past Lives. I wrote it in 1996 while recovering from major surgery. (Thyroid! Grrrr! Get that sucker out, I told the […]

Rebecca Hall

Rebecca Hall Blogger/Travel Writer/Huffington Post Contributor/Co-author for Rough Guides/Author of Girl Gone Greek (available from Amazon) Place To what extent do your surroundings impact your writing, whether it’s a travel piece or a work of fiction? Are you inspired by what’s around you, do you need complete silence and solitude to write, or are you […]