http://www.secretwritersbusiness.com/ Secret Writers Business en Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:03:00 GMT Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:03:00 GMT info@secretwritersbusiness.com info@secretwritersbusiness.com http://www.secretwritersbusiness.com/images/jojobanner34.JPG http://www.secretwritersbusiness.com/ http://www.secretwritersbusiness.com/how-metaphor-creates-meaning/ It was metaphor's fault. It changed my mind about everything. It made me want to be a wordsmith. To do that with language. Illuminate it from the inside, make it... http://www.secretwritersbusiness.com/how-metaphor-creates-meaning/#comments http://www.secretwritersbusiness.com/how-metaphor-creates-meaning/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:03:00 GMT http://www.secretwritersbusiness.com/writing-competition-to-promote-things-without-a-name/ To promote the release of my new book Things without A Name, we're hosting a writing competition, the details of which you can find up on my website: www.joannefedler.com (click... http://www.secretwritersbusiness.com/writing-competition-to-promote-things-without-a-name/#comments http://www.secretwritersbusiness.com/writing-competition-to-promote-things-without-a-name/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:43:00 GMT http://www.secretwritersbusiness.com/funny-blind-man/ You have to have a sense of humour if you are blind. Come to think of it, a sense of humour is useful no matter whether one can see or... http://www.secretwritersbusiness.com/funny-blind-man/#comments http://www.secretwritersbusiness.com/funny-blind-man/ Sun, 29 Jun 2008 20:33:00 GMT http://www.secretwritersbusiness.com/does-language-help-us-say-what-we-mean/ Some days I can write no wrong. Everything I write seems to perfectly fit with the sense I have of what I want to convey, the way two lovers bodies... http://www.secretwritersbusiness.com/does-language-help-us-say-what-we-mean/#comments http://www.secretwritersbusiness.com/does-language-help-us-say-what-we-mean/ Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:37:00 GMT http://www.secretwritersbusiness.com/rest-in-peace-jane-mcgrath/ Mortality is the sting in motherhood. Yesterday, I was standing at my favourite coffee bar, having nipped out to get some lunchbox goodies for my son, waiting for my skinny... http://www.secretwritersbusiness.com/rest-in-peace-jane-mcgrath/#comments http://www.secretwritersbusiness.com/rest-in-peace-jane-mcgrath/ Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:24:00 GMT http://www.secretwritersbusiness.com/the-red-ribbon-a-short-film-by-vincenzo-riemma/ People are surprises. A few months ago I met Vincenzo Riemma, an actor who agreed to play a role in the short film I wrote for the Coogee Stinkwater 24... http://www.secretwritersbusiness.com/the-red-ribbon-a-short-film-by-vincenzo-riemma/#comments http://www.secretwritersbusiness.com/the-red-ribbon-a-short-film-by-vincenzo-riemma/ Sat, 21 Jun 2008 03:55:00 GMT http://www.secretwritersbusiness.com/launch-of-things-without-a-name-at-bowen-library/ When I was a little girl, my mother used to take us to the Emmarentia Library up the road from our house every week or so, where my sisters and... http://www.secretwritersbusiness.com/launch-of-things-without-a-name-at-bowen-library/#comments http://www.secretwritersbusiness.com/launch-of-things-without-a-name-at-bowen-library/ Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:12:00 GMT http://www.secretwritersbusiness.com/today-is-the-big-day-book-launch-of-things-without-a-name/ I guess some girls look forward to their weddings where you get to have a day you've been planning for a year in a white dress, hold a bouquet, get... http://www.secretwritersbusiness.com/today-is-the-big-day-book-launch-of-things-without-a-name/#comments http://www.secretwritersbusiness.com/today-is-the-big-day-book-launch-of-things-without-a-name/ Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:30:00 GMT http://www.secretwritersbusiness.com/the-art-of-saying-more-by-saying-less/ A well-written review induces a sudden state of emergency in me. This week, the urgency was created by Mark Tredinnick who reviewed George Saunders book of essays called The Brain... http://www.secretwritersbusiness.com/the-art-of-saying-more-by-saying-less/#comments http://www.secretwritersbusiness.com/the-art-of-saying-more-by-saying-less/ Sun, 08 Jun 2008 20:30:00 GMT http://www.secretwritersbusiness.com/writing-into-the-taboo-part-2-focus-on-andrea-yates/ In 2003, I was a young mother, when Andrea Yates drowned her five children in the bath in Texas, USA. It was a story that so profoundly disrupted my world... http://www.secretwritersbusiness.com/writing-into-the-taboo-part-2-focus-on-andrea-yates/#comments http://www.secretwritersbusiness.com/writing-into-the-taboo-part-2-focus-on-andrea-yates/ Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:34:00 GMT http://www.secretwritersbusiness.com/things-without-a-name-first-chapter/ 1. scissors I should have stayed in bed this morning instead of dragging my skinny arse into work to face the music. Not that it is my fault that Priscilla's... http://www.secretwritersbusiness.com/things-without-a-name-first-chapter/#comments http://www.secretwritersbusiness.com/things-without-a-name-first-chapter/ Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:42:00 GMT http://www.secretwritersbusiness.com/things-without-a-name-released-today/ Today's the Big Day. Things Without A Name is officially 'out.' Funny, you'd think that the day your book is released, there'd be some kind of fanfare. You'd wake in... http://www.secretwritersbusiness.com/things-without-a-name-released-today/#comments http://www.secretwritersbusiness.com/things-without-a-name-released-today/ Sun, 01 Jun 2008 05:01:00 GMT http://www.secretwritersbusiness.com/writing-into-the-taboo-part-1/ Where I live there is a pathway from the beach up along the cliff. Recently, a young woman fell to her death when she overstepped the little white fence that... http://www.secretwritersbusiness.com/writing-into-the-taboo-part-1/#comments http://www.secretwritersbusiness.com/writing-into-the-taboo-part-1/ Wed, 28 May 2008 22:39:00 GMT http://www.secretwritersbusiness.com/love-of-books-sydney-writers-festival/ When it comes to my kids, I have a weakness. I simply cannot say no when they ask, 'mum can I have this book?' To me, a refusal in this... http://www.secretwritersbusiness.com/love-of-books-sydney-writers-festival/#comments http://www.secretwritersbusiness.com/love-of-books-sydney-writers-festival/ Sun, 25 May 2008 20:38:00 GMT http://www.secretwritersbusiness.com/the-blight-of-book-jackets/ As a devoted book lover, book collector and book fanatic, lover of the gatefold flap, the beautiful cover design, I have to verbalize the question that has been brewing inside... http://www.secretwritersbusiness.com/the-blight-of-book-jackets/#comments http://www.secretwritersbusiness.com/the-blight-of-book-jackets/ Thu, 22 May 2008 20:57:00 GMT