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Calling all Sydney-siders interested in reading and/or writing historical fiction: Elisabeth Storrs will be talking about Art, Inspiration and Historical Fiction: A Tuscan Odyssey at the Society of Women Writers Lunch on Wednesday 8th November at the State Library, Macquarie St, details below. Beautiful Tuscany was once the heartland of the Etruscans and the location…
Just to let you know that I’ve been having problems with my website lately, and this has affected my contact email address: felicity@felicitypulman.com.au. If you’ve tried to reach me lately and had your email returned from that address, do please try again as hopefully the problem has now been sorted. Thanks! And grrrrr! But I’m…
Unfortunately my website has been down for a while so I’m a bit late telling you about the two wonderful things I did last weekend. First up was a ‘theatre in the wild’ experience walking around the Quarantine Station in Manly with a group re-enacting their ‘Convict Footprints Quarantined’ show on Saturday. Very entertaining and very…
Judy King gave a fascinating talk about ‘William Marshal – England’s greatest knight’ at the Plantagenet Society meeting yesterday. Born a landless noble in 1147, William Marshal became the ‘king’s right hand’ to five English kings through his life: Henry II, the ‘Young King’ Henry, Richard I, John and Henry III. He was renowned for his…
After a whirlwind few days down in Melbourne at the HNSA conference, it was such a pleasure then to visit the beautiful old St Patricks Seminary / Hogwarts Castle in Manly yesterday to celebrate books and reading with over 200 excited students and their heroic teacher/librarians. Pictured: organiser Belinda Murrell and her sister Kate Forsyth along with…
Our HNSA conference weekend in Melbourne was absolutely fabulous! A lot of hard work went into its organisation, but it was a wonderful weekend with so many author friends to catch up with, and so many new people to meet, both writers and readers but all of them lovers of historical fiction! The conference kicked…
If you love reading and/or writing historical fiction, there’s still time to book your ticket for the upcoming Historical Novels Society of Australasia conference at Swinburne University in Melbourne next weekend, from Friday night to Sunday 8-10th September. You’ll find out all you ever wanted to know about researching and writing great historical fiction from such luminaries…
This week I’ve had fun talking to a couple more schools, entertaining Ermington Primary School students with stories based on my novels under the title ‘Dragons, Penguins, Magic and Mischief’. The students were great, so eager to ask and answer questions and showing great imagination and creativity, especially when I produced my bag of magical…
Book Week is always a busy time for authors and illustrators of children’s fiction but it’s an exciting time too, as it’s an opportunity to visit schools to talk to students about our books and how we go about researching and writing them – or illustrating them. I’m looking forward to my visit to Kambala tomorrow…
And so they were at a wonderful writers festival at Tradies in Gymea, South Sydney, organised by Julianne Miles-Brown and her keen volunteers. Presenters included Deb Abela and Gabrielle Lord who both gave a fascinating talk on researching and writing their novels, while the ‘mystery pumpkin’ challenge seemed to go down particularly well at my own…