In this week's episode: Toni Jordan, author of Prettier If She Smiled More. And how Tetris, Dungeons and Dragons and Super Mario Bros can help with your writing. And win Going Zero by Anthony McCarten.
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Links mentioned in this episode
- Focus On… Pace
- WIN Going Zero by Anthony McCarten
- Buy So You Want to be a Writer – the book!
- Facebook group for So You Want to be a Writer
Writer in residence: Toni Jordan
Toni Jordan is an award-winning, internationally best-selling novelist.
Her debut novel, Addition, was published in 2008, was longlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award and won best debut fiction in the 2008 Indie awards. In the UK, Addition was a Richard and Judy Summer Read.
Her second novel, Fall Girl, was published in November 2010 in Australia, and also in the UK, Germany, France and Taiwan. Nine Days was published in 2012 to widespread acclaim and is currently a Victorian VCE English text. Our Tiny, Useless Hearts, was published in 2016 and The Fragments was published in 2018. Her most recent novels, Dinner with the Schnabels and Prettier if she Smiled More, tell the ongoing story of the Schnabel family.
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