Hi all, just wanted to say hello, and also to say how impressed I am at this concept.

I'm a freelance travel writer based in Melbourne, Australia. I write a lot for newspapers and magazines, but also for Lonely Planet Publications, so I get to Europe reasonably often. This year I undertook a research trip which passed through Poland, Lithuania, Slovakia and the UK.

If you read the BBC's History Magazine, you'll see an article by me in the November 2008 issue, about Warsaw.

My first novel is Mind the Gap, which I'm already promoting on the Shameless Plugs forum. All I'll say here is that it involves parallel worlds, Egyptology, prophecy, techno-magic and the London Underground. You can read it at http://www.authonomy.com/ViewBook.aspx?bookid=2131.

I'm curious - how many people (if any) posting books here have already had a previous work published? I know many authors say getting the second book published can be harder than the first.

Cheers,
Tim Richards

Posted: 19/09/2008 01:43:02

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Aaaahhh Melbourne, I remember it well. Sunny days in Kew, tram rides along leafy avenues through Carlton and the University area, and probably the best Chinese sweet & sour chicken I've ever had the good fortune to sample in Little Collins Street.

Arise Australia: stand up.

Best, Mischa.



Posted: 19/09/2008 01:47:16

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Melbourne is famous for having better Chinese food than the Chinese. Not long got off the tram down Brunswick St. Too funky for words up there. Where do all those funky people materialise from to fill those funky cafes? And more bikes than Amsterdam.

Tim, your book sounds interesting, could be very Neil Gaiman with that description. Yeah, you're only as good as your next book these days.

I have four children's books and one non-fiction, but with the educational children's book market bombing out in favour of imports (when our kids are all reading books from the US produced under the ludicrous 'no child left behind' regime, they'll be sorry) I really need to move away to novels or something different. Not an easy path. Publish or perish... did you read the latest article in the ASA mag? Are you looking for a home for your second novel?

Posted: 19/09/2008 09:31:53

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Hi all, just wanted to say hello, and also to say how impressed I am at this concept.

I'm a freelance travel writer based in Melbourne, Australia. I write a lot for newspapers and magazines, but also for Lonely Planet Publications, so I get to Europe reasonably often. This year I undertook a research trip which passed through Poland, Lithuania, Slovakia and the UK.

If you read the BBC's History Magazine, you'll see an article by me in the November 2008 issue, about Warsaw.

My first novel is Mind the Gap, which I'm already promoting on the Shameless Plugs forum. All I'll say here is that it involves parallel worlds, Egyptology, prophecy, techno-magic and the London Underground. You can read it at http://www.authonomy.com/ViewBook.aspx?bookid=2131.

I'm curious - how many people (if any) posting books here have already had a previous work published? I know many authors say getting the second book published can be harder than the first.

Cheers,
Tim Richards

Bloody Aussies, and the worst of all are Melbourne-ites (or should that be Melbournians?) Anyone south of Coolangatta is sub-human. Yes, I had a novel published so long ago I forget what it was about and also a non-fiction book that took 5 years to sell 5000 copies.

Posted: 19/09/2008 15:29:35

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Hi all, just wanted to say hello, and also to say how impressed I am at this concept.

I'm a freelance travel writer based in Melbourne, Australia. I write a lot for newspapers and magazines, but also for Lonely Planet Publications, so I get to Europe reasonably often. This year I undertook a research trip which passed through Poland, Lithuania, Slovakia and the UK.

If you read the BBC's History Magazine, you'll see an article by me in the November 2008 issue, about Warsaw.

My first novel is Mind the Gap, which I'm already promoting on the Shameless Plugs forum. All I'll say here is that it involves parallel worlds, Egyptology, prophecy, techno-magic and the London Underground. You can read it at http://www.authonomy.com/ViewBook.aspx?bookid=2131.

I'm curious - how many people (if any) posting books here have already had a previous work published? I know many authors say getting the second book published can be harder than the first.

Cheers,
Tim Richards

One small press novel published, one small press short story collection published, and a second small press novel due to be published in February 2009 (all horror, and all under my real name, which is not the one I use here).

Posted: 19/09/2008 16:18:53

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Actually John it's Melburnians (no 'o' . I like your outfit - and the fact you posted on International Talk Like a Pirate Day (coincidence, I'm guessing).

Macdibble no I haven't had any fiction published at all, though my wife (who mostly writes fantasy) has had four novels published and is contracted for two more to complete a trilogy.

Posted: 20/09/2008 02:32:01

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G'day Tim,
Hope you don't mind lowering your standards talking to an Adelaidian. (We're not all Vic hating, Crow loving, one eyed, thin skinned folk) I had a book self published last year, "Three agendas and one slim hope."
(http://www.zeus-publications.com/three_agendas.htm). You can check out a chapter sample etc at the publisher's site if you're interested. Haven't had a second book published yet. Probably due to my lack of active submitting and pestering of publishers. Too busy writing third book.
Anywhatsit, welcome to the show.
Brandon(one of Australia's biggest, not to mention handsome authors) Roberts.

Posted: 20/09/2008 11:34:32

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Melbourne is famous for having better Chinese food than the Chinese. Not long got off the tram down Brunswick St. Too funky for words up there. Where do all those funky people materialise from to fill those funky cafes? And more bikes than Amsterdam.

Tim, your book sounds interesting, could be very Neil Gaiman with that description. Yeah, you're only as good as your next book these days.

I have four children's books and one non-fiction, but with the educational children's book market bombing out in favour of imports (when our kids are all reading books from the US produced under the ludicrous 'no child left behind' regime, they'll be sorry) I really need to move away to novels or something different. Not an easy path. Publish or perish... did you read the latest article in the ASA mag? Are you looking for a home for your second novel?

Ah Melbourne, being born there does leave a proprietary feeling about the old town. I guess the caretakers there are not doing a bad job of looking after it either. i left because there was six o'clock closing, i.e., 18:00 hours. Also the weather, when I return she puts on a turn for me, four seasons in a day, then I remember why changing the closing time in the hotels never drew me back.

But, thanks for the opening. Kuda Puti moves from North West Australia to Gippsland and Melbourne, The state Library, the Cenotaph, Prahran and St Kilda Road get a mention.
Albeit, later in the story, maybe you would like to read what is posted and envision the rest of it.

Cheers

Posted: 20/09/2008 11:50:15

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John So is in charge. We're not sure if he speaks English but he has a hilarious smile. Don't talk about closing times, they experiment with them all the time as if they're some magic crowd controller. When will they learn... off the street is better than on the street. At least you can't be bored about the weather and it always makes for conversation on the tram.

The Reading Room at the State Library, Hol? I've been meaning to take a look at your work. Will get to it before the month is up.

Who is your wife, Tim? Is she a HC Voyager author? How come she didn't scare you off... does she make it look easy?

Posted: 20/09/2008 12:53:27

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