http://www.jenjen.com.au/blog the blog of author jennifer mills Wed, 16 May 2012 04:59:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Copyright © jennifer mills, 2010 jenjen@jenjen.com.au (Jennifer Mills) jenjen@jenjen.com.au (Jennifer Mills) fiction 1440 http://www.jenjen.com.au/images/hs2011.jpg http://www.jenjen.com.au/blog 144 144 Fresh short fiction from Jennifer Mills Fresh short fiction podcasts from Jennifer Mills, Australian author of Gone, The Diamond Anchor, and the short story collection The Rest is Weight (out in July 2012). Updated bimonthly. Short, story, fiction, writing, literature, australian, stories Jennifer Mills Jennifer Mills jenjen@jenjen.com.au no no http://www.jenjen.com.au/blog/2012/05/may-fiction-podcast-aperture.html http://www.jenjen.com.au/blog/2012/05/may-fiction-podcast-aperture.html#comments Thu, 10 May 2012 06:12:28 +0000 jenjen http://www.jenjen.com.au/blog/?p=599 http://www.jenjen.com.au/blog/2012/05/may-fiction-podcast-aperture.html/feed 0 0:11:49 Here’s one for those who missed the Spineless Wonders gig in Adelaide on Tuesday – that includes me, since the Holden decided to have an attack of Carkinson’s Disease half an hour down the highway. A great night was had by all rep[...] Here’s one for those who missed the Spineless Wonders gig in Adelaide on Tuesday – that includes me, since the Holden decided to have an attack of Carkinson’s Disease half an hour down the highway. A great night was had by all reports and the next is scheduled for August. [update 16/5: beautiful photos from the event have been posted on the SWP blog] Aperture was written during my time in Beijing as Asialink writer in residence in 2010. It was first published in Meanjin and will soon appear in my forthcoming collection The Rest is Weight. No fish were harmed. writing Jennifer Mills no no http://www.jenjen.com.au/blog/2012/05/storm-stories.html http://www.jenjen.com.au/blog/2012/05/storm-stories.html#comments Tue, 01 May 2012 02:03:24 +0000 jenjen http://www.jenjen.com.au/blog/?p=589 http://www.jenjen.com.au/blog/2012/05/storm-stories.html/feed 0 http://www.jenjen.com.au/blog/2012/04/cover-for-the-rest-is-weight.html http://www.jenjen.com.au/blog/2012/04/cover-for-the-rest-is-weight.html#comments Wed, 18 Apr 2012 00:55:07 +0000 jenjen http://www.jenjen.com.au/blog/?p=581 http://www.jenjen.com.au/blog/2012/04/cover-for-the-rest-is-weight.html/feed 0 http://www.jenjen.com.au/blog/2012/03/on-books-and-gender.html http://www.jenjen.com.au/blog/2012/03/on-books-and-gender.html#comments Sun, 25 Mar 2012 04:54:59 +0000 jenjen http://www.jenjen.com.au/blog/?p=564 http://www.jenjen.com.au/blog/2012/03/on-books-and-gender.html/feed 9 http://www.jenjen.com.au/blog/2012/03/march-fiction-podcast-moth.html http://www.jenjen.com.au/blog/2012/03/march-fiction-podcast-moth.html#comments Wed, 07 Mar 2012 01:02:51 +0000 jenjen http://www.jenjen.com.au/blog/?p=540 http://www.jenjen.com.au/blog/2012/03/march-fiction-podcast-moth.html/feed 0 0:14:52 The edits are finished for The Rest is Weight and I’m just about to get proofs and covers sorted out. Will post the cover here when it is ready. I am thrilled to be getting another book out so soon, partly because it’s helping me avoid s[...] The edits are finished for The Rest is Weight and I’m just about to get proofs and covers sorted out. Will post the cover here when it is ready. I am thrilled to be getting another book out so soon, partly because it’s helping me avoid suffering in the form of the second draft of a novel, but mostly because I love short stories and everyone tells me it’s quite hard to get a collection published. Editing the stories was enjoyable, far easier than a novel, since there were no big structural thoughts to carry around in my head. But the stories span about seven years, so there was a bit of sadness and nostalgia involved too. Being able to go back and alter old work felt quite cheeky – the temptation is there to rewrite history and change them into the kind of stories I would write now (a temptation I mostly avoided). It also took a few tries to get the order right. It is just like trying to make a perfect mixtape – an impossible feat, no doubt, but you work at it because it matters. I hope I have created something you’ll like when it comes out in July. Today is apparently World Read Aloud Day, and a new podcast is overdue, so I thought I’d read you a story from the book. This is Moth, which originally appeared in New Australian Stories 2. If you’re interested in more short stories you should check out this post from Paddy O’Reilly, and buy one or all of those books she lists, as well as her own amazing collection, The End of the World. And definitely check out (by which i mean subscribe to) the new magazine Review of Australian Fiction, which will be publishing a new story of mine towards the end of the year – so new I haven’t written it yet! books, podcasts, writing Jennifer Mills no no http://www.jenjen.com.au/blog/2012/02/national-year-of-reading.html http://www.jenjen.com.au/blog/2012/02/national-year-of-reading.html#comments Thu, 16 Feb 2012 22:53:59 +0000 jenjen http://www.jenjen.com.au/blog/?p=531 http://www.jenjen.com.au/blog/2012/02/national-year-of-reading.html/feed 0 http://www.jenjen.com.au/blog/2012/01/it-would-have-passed-in-any-case.html http://www.jenjen.com.au/blog/2012/01/it-would-have-passed-in-any-case.html#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 06:55:30 +0000 jenjen http://www.jenjen.com.au/blog/?p=524 http://www.jenjen.com.au/blog/2012/01/it-would-have-passed-in-any-case.html/feed 0 http://www.jenjen.com.au/blog/2011/12/scaffolds.html http://www.jenjen.com.au/blog/2011/12/scaffolds.html#comments Fri, 09 Dec 2011 04:46:48 +0000 jenjen http://www.jenjen.com.au/blog/?p=509 http://www.jenjen.com.au/blog/2011/12/scaffolds.html/feed 0 http://www.jenjen.com.au/blog/2011/12/how-not-to-write.html http://www.jenjen.com.au/blog/2011/12/how-not-to-write.html#comments Thu, 01 Dec 2011 04:19:51 +0000 jenjen http://www.jenjen.com.au/blog/?p=507 http://www.jenjen.com.au/blog/2011/12/how-not-to-write.html/feed 3 http://www.jenjen.com.au/blog/2011/11/taxi_driver.html http://www.jenjen.com.au/blog/2011/11/taxi_driver.html#comments Tue, 01 Nov 2011 03:22:56 +0000 jenjen http://www.jenjen.com.au/blog/?p=500 http://www.jenjen.com.au/blog/2011/11/taxi_driver.html/feed 0 0:09:24 With apologies for the pause between broadcasts, here’s a new fiction podcast for you. This story began on pure observation, sitting in a gay bar in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, back in 2008. It’s going to be in a collection of m[...] With apologies for the pause between broadcasts, here’s a new fiction podcast for you. This story began on pure observation, sitting in a gay bar in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, back in 2008. It’s going to be in a collection of my stories which I am happy to announce will be published by UQP in mid-2012! Hurrah. UQP have been working hard at conversion and Gone has just been released in all the ebook formats, so it should be popping up in various places over the next few weeks (i’m told with the exception of North America, but maybe there’s a workaround). It is definitely available at indie bookshop Readings already. Go and give Frank a lift! Now for the story: I think the few Spanish words in this story are pretty self-explanatory, but leave a comment if you have any questions. One more thing: as a courtesy to my publisher, and to save myself from becoming a one-woman audio archive, I’m going to be leaving this and future podcasts up for three months or so and then taking them down. Which means the back catalogue will vanish soon, if you want to make use of it… podcasts, writing Jennifer Mills no no