JM Donellan

Author: Josh

  • A BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO DYING IN INDIA BY JM DONELLAN, REVIEWED BY JM DONELLAN

    It's been a busy week. I've been flat out organising the interstate tour and doing radio interviews (you know it's going to be quality airtime when the guy out of the front of the station greets you with a joint in his hand). My novel was finally released in Australia this week, and man, Oprah…

  • CARAVAGGIO. ORWELL. ABORTION. XBOX.

    I had an abortion this week. I was halfway through my follow up novel (for adults at least, my kids book is done and dusted) when I made the difficult decision to prematurely end its life. It was entitled Junk Quay: A Modern Ghost Story. Basically it was a story about blues music and quantum…

  • 350 PROJECT

            The art of writing is by its very nature hermetic. It’s one of the few jobs in the world where being a depressed, introverted alcoholic may actually be of assistance. Well, that and claims adjusting perhaps.   +  + x =   this is a summation of everything I learnt in 3 years…

  • VAMPIRES, ROCKSTARS, TWITTER AND MY BOOK (WHICH MENTIONS NONE OF THESE).

    My debut novel, A Beginner's Guide to Dying in India, was released in America last week. Although it won't see release here in Australia until next month, I was obviously fairly excited to be a thrilling 683,960th on amazon.com's sales ranking. This means that there are exactly 683 959 books that are better promoted, better…

  • SOUNDS OF SPRING REVIEW (simulcast from 4zzz)

    You’d be forgiven for thinking that 2009’s Sounds of Spring was a government conspiracy to lure all the violent bogans in Brisbane into one concentrated area for scientific observation. Whilst shirtless, ass-grabbing, beer can-hurling jerks are an unfortunate certainty at just about any festival, today it seems like they constitute the vast majority of the…

  • NEW DAN BROWN NOVEL LEAKED ON THE INTERNET!

    With less than one week until the highly anticipated release of Dan Brown’s new ‘novel’, millions of ‘readers’ around the world are bursting with expectation. The novel is a sequel to the Da Vinci code, which has been hailed as a publishing phenomenon and was the bestselling adult hardback of all time. (Editor’s note: this…

  • HOUSEMATE WANTED (OR: would you live here?)

    Oh hi. How are you? Reading the noticeboard huh? That’s nice, see anything good? Hey listen if you’re looking for a room then you could come and stay with us. No, seriously. For just $120 a week you could live at our place. It’s a really nice house, I mean, it’s not like a mansion…

  • PEOPLE (AND OBJECTS) I WOULD RATHER BE THAN DAN BROWN

    Often when I mention to people that I am a writer, their eyes light up and they say : "Oh! So you’re going to be the next Dan Brown!" Here, for the record, is a list of people and objects that I would RATHER be than the aforementioned ‘writer.’ THE MOULDY STRAWBERRY IN MY REFRIGERATOR…

  • INTELLECTUAL CELEBRITY GOSSIP FILE: RICHARD DAWKINS + JESSICA SIMPSON

    Well now, Richard Dawkins has become a real A-list of late, ever since his massive success with the god delusion he’s been seen partying at the Viper Room with Lindsay Lohan, Yasmine Bleeth and Robert Downey Jr. Friends say he’s been hitting the ‘party powder’ a little too hard, but the real news is the…

  • A BOOK. ITS COVER.

    They say you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but lets face it, for most people their only other option is Oprah. Lord only knows the chances of me getting my book on that show are about as good as North Korea hosting the next Olympic games.    This would never happen. And if…