Is it just me or are authors getting young and younger these days? Twenty, twenty-one I can understand, but 12?
Jonathan Strahan has been busy editing anthologies and single-author collections this year and gives a run-down on his first half of 2009.
Pavlov's Cat revisits the 2009 Miles Franklin Award shortlist and lists the novels by women that didn't even make the longlist. It is a surprisingly good selection, and would have made a surprisingly good shortlist.
If you thought that literary hoaxs and cons were a relatively modern invention then you would be unaware of the story of convict George Barrington. In "The Age" Simon Caterson provides just enough detail about The Celebrated Barrington: A Spurious Author, the Book Trade, and Botany Bay by Nathan Garvey to make it a must-read.
Salt Publishing explains the "10 Ways to Take a Bad Author Photo". More big hats I say.
