1. Why do you tell stories?
They come to me out of the blue (most often in pieces) and I feel I simply have to do something with them. Or for them.
2. Describe your debut novel in one sentence.
My crime fiction novel A New Name for the Colour Blue is a lovesong to the Australian landscape, the Southern Flinders Ranges.
3. When and where do you write?
A blank notebook is always with me during wanderings and long coffees. The deep writing and re-writing happens on a table most commonly my desk or the dining table. I write like this all day. In the depths of a project, that’s what I do day after day for months.
4. What are three things that sustain you as an author, or while you’re writing?
The love of my characters, the love of my landscape, the love of the process of writing and creating.
5. Name three books that you couldn’t live without.
Risking Everything: 110 Poems of Love and Revelation; Margaret Atwood’s Cat’s Eye; Delia Falconer’s The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers and Selected Stories.
Bonus question:
What book are you sad to admit that you’ve never read?
I admit to several failed attempts to read The Bible from cover to cover.