Suspend Your Disbelief
Whenever my husband and I watch movies with a plot relating to a commercial airplane – Sully and Air Force One are favourites – he can’t help whispering in my ear during the movie: “They can’t do that in real life.” Commercial pilots will be the first to tell you...
Beginnings
The opening chapter of a novel is the element that is rewritten, amended and tweaked more than any other part of a story. Ask any writer how many versions of an opening chapter they have written, and the answer will be dozens, if not more. Deciding on exactly where...
Newspaper Article: Het Nieuwsblad, Friday 11 March 2022
Australian writer finds inspiration in Antwerp painter. Rubens’ Life As A Thriller. A crime novel set in 17th-century Antwerp and the debut of an Australian living in The Hague? That’s The Engraver by Lisa Medved. The pivot in the story is the greatest...