The lovely Donna Joy Usher says incredibly nice things about my book here. I have deleted the entire contents of my resume and pasted her words in the centre in bold and underlined: ‘Claire Varley is a writing talent born, not made, and I can honestly say that this is the best written book I have read in years.’
How does one go back to doing menial things like washing the collective household underwear and scouring oil from the bottom of the pan after reading things like that?
From today’s Fairfax papers, four books that changed me as a writer and a person.*
* Did not include Babysitter’s Club, though obviously this has been most influential.
Here are a couple more bits of publicity:
Fun fact: Though taking place approximately four weeks apart, both interviews reference Sir Paul McCartney. Because I am a one joke pony.
The super friendly and oh so lovely Jan Goldsmith and David McLean interviewed me on 3CR’s ‘Published…or Not’. You can listen to it here. You may or may not be able to hear my head cold.
Some lovely words from some lovely people:
Or, more precisely, 7 places that inspired me to write. Thanks to the lovely people at AWOL for publishing this piece.
Check out my Ten Terrifying Questions with the good people at Booktopia as well as Andrew Cattanach’s review which has left me incredibly humbled but also fairly inflated around the head region.
Check out my Q&A with the lovely people at Bookworld. It was such fun to write.
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