Thoughts on writing, Australian politics, the universe and cheesecake.
posted by Jessica at 11:42 am
I wanted to be a journalist, well not really, but I couldn’t think of a better way to get paid to touch pen to paper. After school I went to university, studied communications and history. For four years I slogged away at my studies, buried myself in books and newspapers, took on a thesis. I worked three jobs to finance my studies, one in a bookstore, another in a library and the third working as a copy person at the biggest newspaper chain on the planet. I was obsessed with all things publishable; hence the nickname, ‘Bookster’. Years later I went for a job in publishing, and was told I would be paid to read books all day long. I was a butterfly in a field of honeysuckle, flitting from one manuscript to the other. During 2003 I wrote a book about refugees in Australia, published by Watts. In November 2003 I became a freelance editor. I now have time to work on books I love and sneak in volunteer work on the side. It also means I can work on a history of the fall of Singapore this week, and next week edit criminal law.
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