Secrets from the Green Room
In each episode of the Secrets from the Green Room podcast hosts Irma Gold and Karen Viggers chat with a writer about their experience of the writing and publishing process in honest green room-style, uncovering some of the plain and simple truths, as well as some of the secrets – whether they be mundane or salubrious – and having a lot of fun in the process.
Secrets from the Green Room
Season 2. Episode 14: Charlotte Wood
Craig and Irma discuss lesson learned from life on the road doing a book tour for Irma's novel The Breaking.
Then Irma speaks with national living treasure Charlotte Wood about the terror of public exposure on releasing a book into the world, the discomfort of the first draft and why it’s important to ‘look for trouble’, how and when to get feedback on work-in-progress, how the pandemic has changed book publicity, why writers desperately need more financial support, why a book rejection was the best and worst moment of her career, and green room encounters that would horrify the reading public.
About Charlotte
Charlotte Wood is the author of six novels and three books of non-fiction, her latest being The Luminous Solution. Her latest novel is The Weekend, which won the 2020 Australian Book Industry Award for Literary Fiction and was shortlisted or longlisted for a number of other prizes, including the Stella Prize and the Miles Franklin Award. Her previous novel, The Natural Way of Things, won a swag of awards, including the Stella, the Indie Book of the Year and Novel of the Year, and shared the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Fiction.