Today's Novel Origins - 05 March 2009

Let's talk books and their beginnings. What hooks you, what keeps you reading? Authors Jane Beckenham, N. D. Hansen-Hill and Yvonne Eve Walus|Eve Summers talk about what hooks them, offering examples from their own work and others.

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Novel-Origins/2009/03/04/In-the-beginning

Today's Novel Origins - 26 February 2009

Yvonne Eve Walus and N. D. Hansen-Hill discuss parenting books, and the developmental value of reading to children ranging from infancy to young adult. There is no exam that you are required to take, no license to be a parent. You rely on instinct, memories from your own childhood and copying what the neighbors are doing.

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Novel-Origins/2009/02/25/Parenting-Books

Today's Novel Origins - 19 February 2009

Yvonne Eve Walus discusses the imminent release of Murder @ Play, a South African murder mystery. On the eve of SA elections this year, the book looks back at the first free and fair elections in 1994 when the mood was optimistic and people embraced the new government. What's changed 15 years on?

Jane Beckenham focuses on the use of settings and dialect in historical writing, with a reference to Sophia James' novels.

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Novel-Origins/2009/02/19/New-Zealand-Authors-talking-mystery-and-elections

Today's Novel Origins - 13 February 2009

N. D. Hansen-Hill cited an article by D. G. Dyne, which recounts mention of New Zealand by such well-known literary figures as Charles Dickens, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and Robert Browning.

There was also a discussion of prologues and their uses, particularly as a hook to capture the reader's attention.

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Novel-Origins/va/2009/02/12/Admired-Authors-New-Zealand-in-Literature-The-Prologue

References

http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-Gov10_06Rail-t1-body-d8.html
http://www.flreads.org/contest/book_hook_contest2006.htm

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