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What are
they saying
about The
Opposite of Life?
 "It’s
certainly a most
unusual vampire novel. Lissa Wilson, librarian, geek, and young woman
about town,... seems to be the magnet for
trouble. ... She’s a wonderful character; not because
she’s an heroic supergirl, but because she rings true. If you can get
this book, do." - Charlaine Harris, author of the Sookie Stackhouse
books. Read Charlaine Harris' blog here.
"A
well made plot
with a killer (literally) ending" - Crime author Kerry Greenwood.
"For
me, there
are three kinds of books: books I don’t like, books I like and books I
like so much that I can’t wait to push them on my friends saying, “You
HAVE to read this!” The Opposite of Life? Well, that goes in the last
category."
- JM, The Book Stacks. Read the whole review here.
"...an absolute
humdinger of a first
novel." - Prudence Russell, Aurealis. Read the whole
review here.
"Harris shows a deft
descriptive touch
and an eye for setting... Melissa has the right combination of
fragility
and sass to carry the story." - Jason Nahrung, The Courier-Mail,
9
February
2008. Read the whole review here
(pdf).
"There's
plenty of blood and gore in Harris' book, plenty of violence as well,
but you don't get dragged into the depths of despair for long. There's
lots of humour in the mix as well for counterbalance. Lissa's humour is
very dry and dead-pan (pardon the pun) while The Guy in the Hawaiian
shirt is her perfect foil." - Edwina Harvey, Andromeda
Spaceways
Inflight Magazine #40
Read more reviews of The
Opposite of Life.
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The Opposite of
Life
Buy
it now!
I remember screaming
very loudly.
In TV shows, that’s where the ad break comes in, while some ninny is
screaming
her head off. No ad breaks in life, though.
Read
the first six chapters!
Read
more about The Opposite of Life.
Download the press release!
News and Events
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News:
 Fifteen copies of my crime novel, Fly By Night,
are currently part of a
giveaway on GoodReads until the end of February. If you already
have it, feel free to go an leave a review! Otherwise, you
can buy it from me.
Fly by Night is also available
in Croatian!
Find
some of the best Australian crime and genre writing through Genre Flash 4, the summer 2010 edition!
(PDF, 1.75Mb)
I am still doing a
Happy Dance over the comments made
by Charlaine Harris - author of the Sookie Stackhouse books -
about The Opposite of Life. She says Lissa "... is a wonderful
character... she rings true... If you can get this book, do."
Read the rest of it on her blog.
And then visit Buy Books
for details on
how to get it!
(Details have been added for US and UK readers who
would like to follow Charlaine Harris' advice!)
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Extras:
I've fallen a little behind so now there
are two GaryView
entries for you: Jack Kerouac's On the Road
and the 80s vampire movie The Hunger.
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Find me on
the radio:
The Outland
Institute radio show is on hiatus until 2010, but you can catch up
on old shows through iTunes.. I am the Insitute's
'literary expert', talking about books and interviewing book
folks. The show is also available as a free podcast fron iTunes.
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I also blog:
You
can also find me blogging away on writing, vampires, music and whatever
else springs to mind at narrelle.livejournal.com.
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Outside the Law 3
 A collection of
true
crime essays, featuring renowned crime fiction and true crime writers
like Robin Bowles, John Allin and Jacqui Horwood. Download the media release!
My essay, The CSI
Effect, about the impact of forensic TV on our juries, is in there as
well!
Check out Dymocks,
Reader's Feast and other good book stores for a copy!
Visit my Non-fiction page
for reviews and links.
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