Write & Seek is the podcast exploring how writers get writing done, and their journey to publication. <br/><br/><a href="https://debutbooks.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">debutbooks.substack.com</a>
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Write & Seek is the podcast exploring how writers get writing done, and their journey to publication. <br/><br/><a href="https://debutbooks.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">debutbooks.substack.com</a>
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8/7/2024
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Recent Episodes
November 26, 2024
Episode 15 | Katherine Larsen & Sarah Sasson
Debut author Sarah Sasson, an immunologist and writer, shares her thought-provoking novel Tidelines, exploring the complexities of growing up in the face of unimaginable loss.
October 23, 2024
Episode 14 | Katherine Larsen & Emily Tsokos Purtill
<p>Welcome to Write & Seek!</p><p>Meet my guest.</p><p>Emily Tsokos Purtill<strong> </strong>is a Western Australian writer of Greek heritage living in Perth/Boorloo on the lands of the Whadjuk Nyoongar people. She has also lived in the UK, Vancouver, Paris and New York. Her creative non fiction, short fiction, flash fiction and poetry has been awarded and published in anthologies and journals in Australia and the United States. </p><p>Her short fiction can be found in Westerly and Griffith Review. After being awarded for her short fiction as a young writer, including winning the Tim Winton Award for Outstanding Achievement and twice winning the Katharine Susannah Prichard Award for Young Writers, Emily pursued a career in law and has worked as a lawyer in Perth and in Paris. Emily returned to writing when she lived in New York in 2013/2014. <em>Matia</em> is Emily's debut novel.</p><p><strong>Website:</strong><a target="_blank" href="https://www.emilytsokospurtill.com/"><strong> emilytsokospurtill.com</strong></a></p><p><strong>Instagram: </strong><a target="_blank" href="https://www.instagram.com/emilytsokospurtill"><strong>instagram.com/emilytsokospurtill</strong></a></p><p><strong>Facebook: </strong><a target="_blank" href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100095303045300"><strong>Emily Tsokos Purtill - Author</strong></a></p><p><strong>Book: </strong><a target="_blank" href="https://uwap.uwa.edu.au/products/matia"><strong>uwap.uwa.edu.au/products/matia</strong></a></p><p>Meet the debut book.</p><p><em>A woman in my village gave me four prophecies . . . they have all come true, so far.</em></p><p>Sia is a young Greek woman who has emigrated from Greece to Perth, Western Australia in 1945 for a better life. She carries with her four prophecies and four pieces of protective jewellery, matia, one for herself, her daughter, granddaughter, and great-granddaughter. With a dooming prophecy hanging over each woman’s head will their lives unfold as they want or are they chained to the fate that’s been destined for them?</p><p>Over four generations and three continents, linking back and forth over 125 years from Greece to Perth to New York and back to Greece, Emily Tsokos Purtill has weaved a story that is utterly captivating and deeply moving.</p><p><strong><em>Matia</em></strong><strong> by Emily Tsokos Purtill is available to purchase wherever you buy your books. Alternatively, check in with your local library. If they don’t have a copy yet, put in a request!</strong></p><p><strong>For more debut Australian books, check out </strong><a target="_blank" href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OChTsg1y278bCPSP_pZb1zReEbOymYS9VC2EyMra6PI/edit?usp=sharing"><strong>The Australian Debut Author Book List</strong></a><strong>, curated by yours truly!</strong></p><p></p> <br/><br/>Get full access to Debut Books at <a href="https://debutbooks.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4">debutbooks.substack.com/subscribe</a>
October 17, 2024
Episode 13 | Katherine Larsen & Rhianna King
<p>Welcome to Write & Seek!</p><p>Meet my guest.</p><p>Rhianna King spent 20 years working in strategic communications for state government environment agencies. During this time, she developed a love of the natural world and learned everything she’ll ever need to know about cane toads. She now works for a not-for-profit Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisation.</p><p>When she’s not spending time with her husband, two kids and dog Rosie, Rhianna is reading, chasing her next marathon PB or sending apologetic messages to friends and family about it being too long between catch ups.</p><p><strong>Website: </strong><a target="_blank" href="https://www.rhiannaking.com.au/"><strong>rhiannaking.com.au</strong></a></p><p><strong>Instagram: </strong><a target="_blank" href="https://www.instagram.com/rhianna.m.king"><strong>instagram.com/rhianna.m.king</strong></a></p><p>Meet the debut book.</p><p>Beth doesn't feel like she belongs in her rambunctious, bohemian family. Apart from the special relationship she shares with her grandma, Elise. When Beth wins the lottery (on a ticket she bought to prove she could be spontaneous), she decides to spend it on treating Elise. </p><p>But instead of anything material, Elise wants Beth to help her track down her first love, Gerry. It's a fun and uncomplicated little adventure, Beth thinks, until she discovers that her grandma's great love is actually a woman, and their romance was thwarted by the conservatism of the day. Grappling with her grandma's past spurs Beth to reconsider herself in the present.</p><p><em>Birds of a Feather</em> is a funny, poignant and utterly charming debut novel about questioning who you are and what you might become.</p><p><strong><em>Birds of a Feather</em></strong><strong> by Rhianna King is available to purchase wherever you buy your books. Alternatively, check in with your local library. If they don’t have a copy yet, put in a request!</strong></p><p><strong>For more debut Australian books, check out </strong><a target="_blank" href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OChTsg1y278bCPSP_pZb1zReEbOymYS9VC2EyMra6PI/edit?usp=sharing"><strong>The Australian Debut Author Book List</strong></a><strong>, curated by yours truly!</strong></p> <br/><br/>Get full access to Debut Books at <a href="https://debutbooks.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4">debutbooks.substack.com/subscribe</a>
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