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[camrogers]

fluffworld's interview with me is online at A Life In Words, on the Boomerang Books site.

We  both live in Australia but I end up interviewing Australian author Cameron Rogers half a world away from where we both live. We’re in Central Park, New York, where he is taking a break from working on his upcoming novel, Fateless.

He wrote the bulk of it in Melbourne where he lived for the last decade, but he’s doing the final edits while travelling around the world. He’s worked on the manuscript – which he calls, not entirely affectionately, “the brick” – in the States, on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, near an Icelandic glacier, in England, Germany and Graceland, all over Paris, while camping in the Dandenongs and in between checking out Muddy Waters’ shack and the Reichstag.

Sounds fun. So is writing all bumming around the world, scribbling a few words in exotic climes?

Comments

[flemco.livejournal.com]

God damn, you sound like a man of the world in that.

[reddragdiva]

I got a photo featuring the brick, a stiff drink and the bags under his eyes.

[patchworkkid.livejournal.com]

Jesus. Isn't the camera is a wonderful thing?

[reddragdiva]

Sure captured the soul there.

MUWAHAHAHAHA

(Had you not seen that set yet? Don't worry, you're more photogenic than Cav. Or me.)

[patchworkkid.livejournal.com]

No, hadnt seen those.

It's a crap shoot as to how I look in any given photo.

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

And almost certainly more than me, unless I managed to dodge the soul-stealer entirely.

[reddragdiva]

You did, but you're wrong ;-p

[patchworkkid.livejournal.com]

One does what one can, don't y'know.

Stuffed olive?


(Actually, she does make me sound pretty good. I think it's more down to Sadhbh's ability as a journalist than my end of the bargain.)

[fluffworld.livejournal.com]

Given that the article is mainly quotes from you, I'm not adding anything that isn't already there. But thanks for the compliment. :D

*considering getting a badge made up that says "haz abilties" and sticking it to her forehead*

[confusiontempst.livejournal.com]

You make me want to pursue adolescent cravings to be a writer again, but I don't have a good enough handle on my life experiences to make them coherent. Or that's the way I feel.
Maybe I'm just afraid of the hard work, and the potential to be proven uninteresting if I pursue it and nobody likes to read me, y'know?

Oh, and massive market saturation, and me not being sure that I'm engaged in anything even a little unique in my experience of life.

[patchworkkid.livejournal.com]

Everyone is someone else's weirdo. The trick is in properly conveying your experience of your life in such a way that someone Not You gets a kind of contextual, wholistic grasp of it. It's the honesty and the education inherent in that which most people sign up for, IME.