JM Donellan

Category: writing

  • BLACK CATS & FUTURE SPECS

    On the weekend this happened:   And yes I am aware of the fact that it is poor form for a writer to blog primarily in images but I've spent last 48 hours being drunk, hung over and scrubbing gallery walls with sugar soap so you'll forgive me if I'm uncharacteristically laconic.  I also want…

  • TOUR DIARY: KING OF THE PENGUINS & HANGING OUT AT THE ASYLUM

    Well well well, who knew a promo tour could be so much fun huh? I wasn't exactly sure what a writers promo tour would entail, I mean, I assumed that there would be vast quantities of A-grade cocaine, plasma screen TVs thrown out of 5 star hotel windows and fistfights with police, but other than…

  • day one.

    The launch events this Friday and Sunday are all booked out and for some reason I'm going to be in this magazine:     http://www.xandymagazine.com.au/ I hope they don't ask me about fashion tips, all I'm going to be able to give them is a list of my favourite op shops and their respective odours. Can…

  • ebay ad: >>>DEBUT NOVEL: will trade for your house, degree etc.

    I just placed this ad on ebay:  ebay ad- Debut novel: will trade for your house, degree etc. I'll be documenting the bids I receive here over the weeks to come. 

  • 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…

  • 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…