Annette

Today, I cleaned my workspace. It feels like years since I properly cleaned my workspace, judging from the arachnid condominium being constructed between my bureau and the wall. The thick dust, random papers (superannuation letters, excerpts from Dante, an article on gold prices in Turkey in World War II), outmoded […]

Refreshing my Workspace

November 16, 2023 in Book production / By Violence Unavenged / In the Hearts of Kings / Outside Heaven's Sway tagged By Violence Unavenged / In the Hearts of Kings / Music and Writing / Outside Heaven's Sway / Workspace / Writing by annette

Marc Chagall, The White Crucifixion 1938 — It’s been over a year since the release of By Violence Unavenged – a year of death, heatwaves, fires, floods, injuries, illness, job loss, pestilence, and house renovations. I have had neither time nor energy to write. Yesterday, all that changed. I spent an quiet hour in a cafe and […]

Writing Outside Heaven’s Sway

October 21, 2020 in Outside Heaven's Sway / Writing by annette

Annette and Gray — Gray Connolly launches By Violence Unavenged, Annette Young’s mighty sequel to A Distant Prospect, set in Sydney and Vienna between the two World Wars. Gray Connolly is a Barrister, Writer and War Veteran, and a lecturer and examiner in Australian Constitutional Law. Gray is a panelist for ABC radio and […]

Gray Connolly to launch By Violence Unavenged 15 June 2019

April 13, 2019 in By Violence Unavenged / Events by annette

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March 2, 2019 in By Violence Unavenged / Promotion by annette

It’s been months since I’ve posted; mainly because I’ve been at hammer and tongs finishing By Violence Unavenged. Now, quite frankly, I’m terrified. Terrified the new book is going to flop. Terrified at coming out of my shell to peddle my wares. Terrified of deadlines. Terrified of writing Volume Two, […]

Leech Gathering #12: And so, from hour to hour…

December 7, 2018 in Annette / By Violence Unavenged / Outside Heaven's Sway / Writing by annette

It started with Sporky, a flying purple giraffe. Since she was 3, Annette Young has had imaginary friends, most of whom are human; and over the years, those friends have been her solace. That they should make their way into novels, however, was unimaginable. Annette first wanted to be an […]

About the Author

July 13, 2018 in Annette by annette

By Violence Unavenged is finished! That is, it’s in a state fit enough to be read by someone other than the author. I’ve gone over the manuscript dozens of times, culling words, piecing the plot, developing characters and settings; honing, honing, honing… Readers… that crowd of friendly, intelligent aliens fighting […]

Blood Letting #2: I know there’s no beryllium sphere…Calling Discerning ...

June 18, 2018 in Annette / Book Production / By Violence Unavenged / Sequel by annette

I like a good red. A half-glass of the smoothest pinot-noir, sipped slow, flavouring long and pleasant conversation, is a joy. But, like Hemingway, to whom the drunk and sober maxim of my title is wrongly attributed (apparently Peter De Vries holds claim), and who wrote sober, despite being a […]

Write Drunk, Edit Sober: Blood Letting #1

November 24, 2017 in Annette / By Violence Unavenged / Progress / Sequel tagged Blood Letting by annette

“A fascinating novel” is Australian philosopher John Young’s assessment of A Distant Prospect. After he attended Annette’s recent book club event in Melbourne, Thomistic philosophy lecturer John Young generously wrote a full-page review of A Distant Prospect that has just appeared in News Weekly magazine’s 30th July 2016 edition, for print subscribers and online at http://newsweekly.com.au/article.php?id=57389 Thomism’s philosophical approach […]

Philosophy lecturer John Young reviews A Distant Prospect

July 29, 2016 in Reviews by francis

Annette 29 April 2016 — Join Annette Young 7pm this Friday 29 April, for a fun evening about life, writing, and the universe! There might even be some secrets from her wartime sequel to A Distant Prospect! RSVP Mary Long 0409 979 923 if you can, or just turn up to Caroline Chisholm Library, level […]

Annette is in Melbourne this Friday!

April 26, 2016 in Events by francis

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December 13, 2015 in Promotion by francis

dolphin salt shaker — Dr Annette Young delivered a version of this text as a dinner speech for the Association of Australian Women Graduates at The Newcastle Club on 26 August 2015. In the course of writing fiction, there comes a point when your story metamorphoses from being simply a story to being a […]

Inspired by motherhood: life, literature, and plastic dolphins

October 17, 2015 in Annette / Events / Motherhood / Writing by annette

Preliminary character diagram for volume 3. France. — Here’s a preliminary diagram of my characters for volume 3. I wonder where they will take me? Vienna is mostly done, now for France. Click the picture for a closer look, and sign up to my email list for updates as the sequel gets closer.

Sketching my characters for the sequel – France

September 29, 2015 in Annette / Characters / Sequel / Writing by francis

Here are ten favourite books which I always carry around in my mind, and which collectively helped me to write the story arc, the themes, the characters, the settings, and to manage the narrative voice of A Distant Prospect. I wrote the first draft of my book while doing my […]

10 books that helped me to write A Distant Prospect

July 6, 2015 in Annette / Research / Study Guide / Writing by annette

A new, one-minute book trailer captures the poignancy and beauty of Lucy’s story, with visuals of Galway and 1920s Sydney. Borodin’s beautiful Nocturne, third movement from his String Quartet No. 2 in D major, sets the mood. Paired in a program with Haydn’s “Fifths” quartet, this music features in the key climax […]

Irish-English Book Trailer for A Distant Prospect

July 3, 2015 in Book production / Borodin / Galway / Reviews / Video by francis

Annette is delighted that Denver-based Sonlight Curriculum, which is celebrating its 25th year in 2015, has selected A Distant Prospect as one of its Summer Reader choices. She is especially pleased by the way in which Jonelle brings out the carefully woven inter-generational themes in her video review below. Thank […]

“A book my Mom and I couldn’t put down.” – ...

May 30, 2015 in Reviews / Suffering / Video by francis

A Distant Prospect is “a rare find in a sea of mediocre modern novels” according to Jacinta Woodnutt, writing at Restless Press. “I couldn’t put it down for days,” she writes, echoing the most common sentiment expressed in reader reviews. A Distant Prospect “conveys truth, goodness and beauty; but it […]

A rare find in a sea of mediocre modern novels

April 27, 2015 in Reviews by francis

Sonlight's 20th Century Literature sub-package 330 — Character, culture, plot, emotion, language. Only two or three books per hundred meet all of these tough criteria! If you ever need to choose truly memorable fiction books, whether for yourself, your children, or your school, you could do worse than add these seven benchmarks to your arsenal. Sarita Holzmann, […]

The Seven Pillars of Great Fiction, or how to choose ...

April 25, 2015 in Reviews / Writing by francis

A Distant Prospect – ISBN 9780987435101