How do you defy a reader’s expectations while still fulfilling them? — C.S. Pacat on the challenges of writing genre fiction.

This was just one of the many nuggets of wisdom I picked up over the course of a day at the Emerging Writers’ Festival in Melbourne last June. For those who weren’t there, I thought I’d share some of the highlights and insights from each talk.

Firstly, welcome! I’m so excited to have finally gotten this project off the ground, and to be able to share my thoughts and ideas on books, reading and writing.

This isn’t a travel blog, but I do want to share two amazing places that I visited recently… A bookshop in Venice, and a bookshop in Paris.