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Trumix.com listings available of The Naked Novelist Podcasts Build your own playlists with this podcast. Goodnight, good luck and thanks for listening. It's the last one. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Show #41 Get published. Do it now. Let nothing stop you. Novelist and creative writing lecturer Antoni Jach discusses 17 things you can do to maximise your chances of getting published. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Show #40 The stifling air of an Australian country town You bring your children up to escape sorrow. You spend your best years trying to stop them witnessing it on television, in you, in your neighbours' faces. Then you realize, slowly, that there is no escape, that they must steer their own way through life's cruelties. We speak to Charlotte Wood about her third book, The Children, and what it's like to almost win Australia's most prestigious literary award. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Show #39 Please...go for it! Sydney party girl Lana Penrose left behind her rock and roll Sydney lifestyle to follow her boyfriend to Athens. Then things fell apart. She tells her odyssey in To Hellas and Back, which was published by Penguin earlier this year. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Show #38 Eyes wide shut 28-year-old novelist Andrew Hutchinson chose the nightclub scene and date rape as topics for his first book. We speak to him about writing about things you can't understand. I also look at the midnight disease, get an update from grandma blogger Jane Stillwater, now back in Iraq, and post a photo from a listener in New York. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Show #37 When dreams become fiction First time author Susan Parisi returned from Italy and had a nightmare about a murder. So she answered the call, left her job and wrote a novel about dreaming, visions and murder in 18th century Venice. And it was published by Penguin last month. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Show #36 Transforming bad luck into smart publishing Two books with the same title, on the same subject, published on the same day, selling for the same price. We speak with Scribe publisher Henry Rosenbloom and journalist Nicholas Stuart about one of them - Kevin Rudd: An unauthorised political biography. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Show #35 Be a stubborn son of a bitch That's Chris Womersley's advice to emerging writers. His first novel, The Low Road, was released earlier this year. It's writing with heft. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Show #34 Turning two weeks of your life into a bestseller My strange world of convergences...what the hell is going on? And Ellie Nielsen tells us how she focused on two weeks of her life - and wrote a book that's selling bloody well! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Show #33 Writing autobiography? Get a life! Do you need to have led an interesting life to write your autobiography? Of course not. But if you want it published, it helps. Rob Redenbach talks about his book, Waveman, and encourages us all to push the envelope. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Show #32 Chasing the light Poet Paul Mitchell has turned his hand to short stories - and shows he's a master. We speak to him about inspiration, managing the life/writing balance and the potent magic in producing a good short story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Show #30 The small pebble in Dubya's shoe Sixty-four-year-old grandmother and blogger Jane Stillwater made headline news with her dispatches from  Iraq. She speaks to The Naked Novelist about the power of the net, her conversion to Islam and waging war on the big fella. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Show #28 Alice through the looking glass We continue our focus on autobiography. Young Melbourne writer Alice Pung has written a beautiful and intriguing book about growing up in the western suburbs, the daughter of Chinese Cambodian migrants. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Show #27 At the sharp end of writing memoir I interview my doctor. Howard Goldenberg has written a book about his father, and growing up Jewish in a small town in New South Wales. It's a fine example of a perfect form. We talk to him about 'My Father's Compass', the trials of growing old and the long run to publication. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Show #26 Move to Paris, live in a garret and write your novel Tony Davis did just that...He went to Paris to write the great Australian novel - and failed. But he got a terrific book out of his experience. He details the pain and anguish of following your literary dreams against the political upheavel of 1995 France. We talk to him about  'F. Scott, Ernest and me'. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Show #25 Turning history into cracking good crime fiction Robert Gott is a cartoonist, children's writer and the author of three crime novels set in WWII Australia. We speak to him about his latest offering, 'Amongst the Dead'. (Interview first broadcast on Melbourne radio 3CR.) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Show #24 Coming up with non-fiction book ideas that make publishers bite TNN regular Barbara Biggs, the author of six books including five wildly successful non-fiction bestsellers, shares her secrets on picking titles that sell. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Show #23 The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Writers We speak to Antoni Jach about what you need to do to take your writing to the next level. (First broadcast on Melbourne radio 3CR's Published or Not program). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Show #22 The writer behind the world famous hippo Hazel Edwards has written 162 books. She talks about building and sustaining a career, getting stuck in Antarctica and the secrets of writing for children. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Show #21 Rock Paper Scissors My book launches: 21 media interviews in 10 days, 1,000 miles, 19 bookshops, I organise a party for 100 people. And I tell Australia I'm an idiot. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Happy New Year! A quickie... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Show #19 Speculate to accumulate Our last show - and it's a biggie! The how, why, when, what and where of speculative fiction. We speak with SF expert Donna Maree Hanson and writer on the brink Phill Berrie. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Show #18 Truth hits me in the face once again A moment of realisation in a discount bookstore in a warehouse in Collingwood. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Show #17 When the patient attends the medical conference A blockbuster of a show! The strange accident-prone path that led to my first book contract. Mary Cunnane reports on the biggest literary circus of all - the Frankfurt Book Fair. And former sex worker Barbara Biggs lets us in on secrets of the literary conference hustle. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Show #16 The power of three Having trouble getting motivated? Is your writing a long, thankless and lonely job? Try collaboration. Former systems analyst Jan Whitaker tells how she wrote a novel with two others. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Show #15 From Bombay to Beijing by bicycle How actor Russell McGilton turned a small inheritance into a wild and wacky bike trip through India, Nepal, Pakistan and China (during which he got malaria, broke up with his girlfriend and drank his own urine.)  Then he wrote a book about it that was published by Penguin. Then he took his clothes off and rode naked through the streets of Melbourne to promote it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Show #14 Here's someone doing it...really Newcastle academic Dr Steven Fleming wrote five novels then chucked them all away. Now he's on his way to writing a best seller. In America. He tells us how. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Show #13 Music, politics, literature and hookers The Naked Novelist salutes America. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Show #12 The beauty of Kevin Spacey, and the high art of Big Brother My life as an inspired failure and why I watch television. And Antoni Jach says that Big Brother is like Beckett (no kidding.) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Show #10 Agent of influence Mary Cunnane is one of Australia's leading literary agents. We chat about Jacqueline Onassis, Mark Latham, the role of the agent and writing the breakout novel. And Mary says Australia is the new Ireland in international literary circles. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Show #9 When the stairway to heaven just keeps going, and going, and going. We speak with writer Greg Hill, who tell us about his many near-misses. In this searingly honest interview, Greg talks about the importance of staying flexible, the problems of partnerships, the need to rewrite and how it feels to get close...really close. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Show #7 The sounds of silence: those b***ds in the publishing industry. How would you feel if you sold a novel, got a healthy advance...then heard nothing for 12 months? It happened to Alison Goodman.We speak to this award-winning fantasy novelist about holding your nerve when things fall apart, finding your literary voice and dealing with flatulent dogs. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Show #6 Goodbye Chester It was an unexpected death on an empty country road two hours from Melbourne, yesterday afternoon. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Show #5. I'm not Hugh Jackman. And why freaking out on planes is good for your writing. Travelling without maps. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Show #4 The dark night of the soul becomes a week... Ill health, insomnia, writer's block, my car's a wreck, I'm middle aged and renting, and publishers don't return my calls. Being on the brink ain't easy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Show #3 The dark night of the novelist's soul...and the entrepreneurial writer Writer Thomas Moore says in the dark night something of your make-up comes to an end - your ego, your self, your creativeness, your meaning. You may find in that darkness a key to your source, the larger soul that makes you who you are and holds the secrets of your existence. But like many great writers, you have to give yourself over completely... And we talk to Barbara Biggs, whose graphic and compelling autobiographies - In Moral Danger and The Road Home - detail her own dark journey. Ba ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Show #2 We get naked with Joanna ... Playwright, novelist and screenwriter Joanna Murray-Smith chats to us about finding inspiration, writing winning dialogue and staying sharp in the middle of nappies, toddlers' tantrums and critics. 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