How would you define 'women's fiction'?
Women's fiction is a marketing category - I don't define it, book marketers do. Here are some examples: http://www.booktopia.com.au/books-online/fiction/contemporary-women-s-fiction/cFG-p1.html
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Are you having a good birthday?
I am having a VERY nice birthday, thank you for asking.
You're a custard tart.
True.
What's your favourite memory?
I have so many. I spend a lot of time in my memory. I don't think I can pin it down to just one - I don't have a "my wedding day!" or "the birth of my child!" type favourite memory. Lots of my favourite memories end up in my writing, sometimes verbatim, and they're almost always a few moments spent with someone I adore.
What is your favourite pastry/baked good? (Other than biscuits)
Custard tarts!
Agree. It's hard to escape though, especially in the workplace. There's a lot of pressure to participate in sweeps and stuffs for, you know, team building :(
Definitely! Every workplace I've been in has had a Melbourne Cup sweep (sometimes not optional). I do think it feels like the attitude towards it is shifting, though, do you? My feeds have more "Melbourne Cup is bad!" content this year than ever before.
Have you ever placed a bet on the Melbourne Cup and won something?
Yes, but not for many years because horse racing is a dangerous and cruel sport that relies on gambling culture to stay afloat. What's to like?
I haven't read the Paper House, though I have watched the Film Paper Giants by the Australian Broadcast Corporation ABC. Does the book have a lot of illustration. I'll be looking for submissions soon for an online adaptation of the traditional Children's book. Keith Joseph Margate
No, no illustrations. It's a literary fiction book for adults.
It's a pretty beautiful book though, let's be honest! ^-^
I hope it is. Thanks for saying so!
Do you think The Paper House is one of the best books of 2016?
I guess that depends how long the list is. I think it's definitely in the top 100,000 best books of 2016.
What was the last book you read? Would you recommend it?
Ali Smith's Autumn. I would recommend it, but with the caveat that it's like a very long poem and you might very well get to the end and think "I don't know what that was, but sometimes the order of the words was extremely lovely", as I did.