December 8, 2015
This year has been full of ‘firsts’ for me. Firsts such as a new-look Treefall Writing, travelling to Chile, learning to run (I have a long way to go), learning InDesign (even further to go), launching a book, and being interviewed on radio. And as I’ve mentioned elsewhere on Treefall Writing, much of this has taken me […]
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November 28, 2015
Welcome to Six Degrees of Separation, a monthly meme created by authors Annabel Smith and Emma Chapman. They provide a book title and we link it to six other books in any way we like. It’s supposed to be posted on the first Saturday of the month, but I’m just scraping in on the last […]
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November 12, 2015
It’s been a crazy few weeks. For those of you I’m already connected to – in person or via social media – you will already know that Many Hearts, One Voice was finally launched on Sunday, 1 November. The launch of Many Hearts, One Voice exceeded my hopes and expectations in more ways than one. Fremantle Press had […]
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October 10, 2015
What have you dared to say yes to? And what was the outcome? When I tell people that my first book is about to be published, the response is usually, Really? Is it a novel? I explain that while I do write fiction, I’ve spent the last eight years researching and writing about war widows. The […]
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September 17, 2015
Welcome to the new look Treefall Writing! Over the last little while, Ian from IC-TECH has been building me a new website/blog space from scratch. As of Thursday 17 September 2015, I can be be found here, at www.melindatognini.com.au. The web address is not all that different (I was at melindatogninini.com, so the only differences […]
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September 10, 2015
Welcome back to Six Degrees of Separation. If you’re just tuning in, this is a monthly meme in which authors Annabel Smith and Emma Chapman provide us with a book title, and then we link it to six others in any we please. This month’s starting point is Matt Haig’s Reasons to Stay Alive. I hoped to […]
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August 25, 2015
With the Second World War and its aftermath at the core of Many Hearts, One Voice: the story of the War Widows’ Guild in Western Australia, the events of that time period have been on my mind for quite some time. I was therefore a little surprised (but probably shouldn’t have been) that the 70th anniversary […]
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August 1, 2015
National Bookshop Day aims to celebrate all that’s great about bookshops. I’m a big fan of local, independent bookshops and have been for a long time. If at all possible, I’ll order my books through one of these rather than a chain store or on-line, for reasons I’ve explained in an earlier post. I’m reminded of a story […]
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