In Your Suburb - Jodi McAlister
Jodi McAlister + Melanie Saward
Indooroopilly Library
In Your Suburb / Free event
#Performances
#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
From her Bachelor analysis to her acclaimed Valentine series of YA novels, Jodi McAlister has got plenty to say about love and the stories we tell about it. Join her as she talks about her work, and her exciting new book, Libby Lawrence is Good At Pretending.
Jodi McAlister in conversation with Melanie Saward
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#Artists
Jodi McAlister
Jodi is both an author and scholar of romance fiction. As an author, she's written romance novels for adults and young adults: most recently, the Marry Me, Juliet series (Simon & Schuster) and Libby Lawrence is Good at Pretending (Wakefield). As an academic, she has published two monographs and numerous articles and book chapters, and works as a Senior Lecturer in Writing, Literature and Culture at Deakin University in Melbourne.
Melanie Saward
Melanie Saward is a proud Bigambul and Wakka Wakka woman. She is a writer, editor, and university lecturer based in Tulmur (Ipswich), Queensland. Her debut novel Burn was published by Affirm Press in 2023 and she’s also had work published in the literary journals Griffith Review, Meanjin, Overland, Kill Your Darlings, and has fiction published in the anthologies Flock: First Nations Stories Then and Now, and New Australian Fiction. Her first romantic comedy novel, Love Unleashed, will be published by Penguin Random House in August.
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