An exploration of how an understanding of psychology can help turn historical figures into fully fleshed and authentic characters.
Category: The Author Speaks
Posts in this category are about the process of researching, writing, editing and publishing.
“Still, better than a wombat hole, hey, McIntyre?”
Ned Kelly gave forewarning of the scale of his Glenrowan plot, as well as some of the motivation behind it, in the letters he wrote with Joe Byrne at Euroa and Jerilderie. At the time these seemed to be more or less hollow threats, but following the Glenrowan tragedy they are almost chilling in their forewarning.
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Glenrowan Definitive Edition
Coming late June 2022…
A brief biography of the man that hanged Ned Kelly.
McIntyre had since crawled out of the hole and put his boots back on. He stumbled through the bush, doused in rainwater, his boots rubbing uncomfortably. He paused long enough to realise he had put them on the wrong feet and switched them around. Convinced the gang were no longer in pursuit he decided to […]
Joe Byrne holds a clandestine meeting with the Sherritts in this extract from the second chapter of Glenrowan.
Previously I posted about my first trip to Kelly Country since the lockdowns but was in the middle of the trip when I wrote it. Evidently the rest of the trip was too busy for me to finish writing up about what else happened at the time, so here we go with a quick recap […]
With the “ring of steel” between Melbourne Metro and the rest of Victoria now dissolved movement is freer than it has been in months. It also means that I can finally visit the places that feature so prominently in my book. To say that the inability to bring Glenrowan to the places where everything happened […]
An excerpt from chapter one: Loyalty concerning the outlaw Kelly brothers and their siblings.
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