All posts by karena

JESSIE COLE- Desire

Jessie Cole tackles one of the most complex issues of the human condition , Desire, by analysing her own actions and feelings. Starting with her response to the vet!

Jessie Cole- The Read

Jessie Cole- The Interview

Recorded at Byron Writers Festival 2022

PETE SMITH – Quantum Consciousness

AS we are approaching the festive season I am going to send out two or three new authors each week to give you something to listen to and think about and maybe even go off and read! First up, let’s get deep…

Reality is all around us – or is it? This is a book to make you question everything you see and fell you know.

Pete Smith – The Read

Pete Smith – The interview

Recorded at the Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival 2022

JED HART – Block 33

Jed Hart – Fiction and Fact!

Jed Hart’s character, Jake Hunt is on the run from a murderous revolutionary group, but they are not just after him – they want to kill his girlfriend Nicole as well. Finally, they have to stop running and take a stand. Jed is a highly decorated Vietnam vet who is now an author , and his writing rings with the authority of lived experience!

Jed Hart – The Read

Jed Hart – The Interview

Recorded at Studio 3 Bangalow 2022

ARNOLD ZABLE – The Watermill

Arnold Zable – The Watermill

Arnold Zable has written a beautiful collection of short stories that are based on tales he has collected from around the world, often passed on to him orally. As he says he has ‘crafted’ them into new stories.

Arnold Zable – The Read

Arnold Zable – The Interview

Recorded at Byron Writers Festival 2022

MARK McKENNA – Return to Uluru

Returning to the scene of the crime…

Mark McKenna is an historian and author who has investigated a dreadful murder that went unpunished during the perpetrator’s lifetime -in fact he was celebrated as a hero! The Indigenous relatives of the murdered man passed down the truth for decades waiting for the crime to be solved.

Mark McKenna- Read

Mark McKenna – Interview

Recorded at Byron Writers Festival 2022

DANIELLE CELERMAJER – Summertime

We are all in this together…

Danielle is a highly committed animal rights activist. Her compassion and empathy infuse this beautiful book asking us all – where are we going, and who are we taking with us?

Danielle Celermajer- The Read

Danielle Celermajer- The Interview

Recorded at the Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival 2022

SUSAN WHITE – Cut

With all the focus over the past few years on the health care system – here’s a (fictional) tale to really scare you! Susan White is a real life doctor (though not surgeon) and she finds plenty to intrigue the reader in this tale of skullduggery (sorry!) in a hospital that her protagonist, Carla has to solve at her peril.

Susan White read and Interview from ‘Cut’

Recorded at BAD Crime Festival Sydney 2022