Isabel Allende

Has just published a new book - Island Beneath the Sea. 'With the violence, the mad wife and the torrid sex, the ingredients are all in place for a bosom-heaving blockbuster, but Isabel Allende brings to her storytelling another dimension altogether.' Dianne Dempsey, The Age.

Note if for your holiday reading if you enjoyed The Sum of Our Days!

new book

I've just read Robert Olen Butler's From Where You Dream: the Process of Writing Fiction. He's got great chapters on writing from the cinema of the mind and sensory detail, one of which I'll photocopy for next semester's resource book. Terrific book if you happen to see it on your local library system. I'd particularly recommend it to anyone contemplating novel writing or the advanced writing project.