Fiona McIntosh - Author

I’ve just started writing a new blog about The Lavender Keeper and hope you’ll all drop by each week as I plan to give an extended look into all aspects of producing the novel from conception through to getting around Australia to meet readers when the book is published at the end of March 2012….

I am excited to finally release details of the new historical fiction novel that will be published end March….here’s the blurb to whet your appetite. Luc Bonet lost his family at birth and is brought up by wealthy French Jews in the foothills of the French Alps. When he is confronted with his true identity…

Today I hit the ‘send’ button on a new manuscript that whisked it off to my editor at Penguin. This is a sequel to the WWll novel that is hitting bookstores for April 1. Always a lovely feeling of relief to watch the little blue line load the email and hear that reassuring sound of…

My thanks to Rowena Cory Daniels for this generous interview. http://rowena-cory-daniells.com/2011/12/03/meet-fiona-mcintosh/

Well not quite. I’m on overseas hols. Can’t remember the last time we did this but we’re heading off for an enforced summer holiday where I will be obliged to climb into bathers, don a big sunhat and be still without even talking about books for a whole three weeks. I’ve promised my family no…

My French publisher has finished the Valisar series with this wonderfully evocative final volume cover art. This is the hard back version, although I’m sure it will appear on the trade and paperback too. Far too handsome not to! I have to admit I would be hard pressed to pick a favourite when comes to…

The sf community – and especially all of us at Voyager -  mourn Sara Douglass (Sara Warneke) who passed away in the early hours today.  She blazed the trail for Australian fantasy from the mid nineties and inspired many a new novelist – including myself – not just to write but to look further afield…

I’ve been writing from Tasmania these last four weeks and when you get sunsets like this it’s hard to not be inspired.  Apart from my daily walks up the hill and a skip around the garden with the dog and her favourite bouncy ball, it’s been all work and no play.  Mind you, that’s why…

…and a new novel begins.  Today I began the final chapter of a new adult fantasy that will be published in 2012 and I’ve very much enjoyed crafting, and today I also finished chapter one of the new historical saga set in the 1950s.  It’s a sequel to the WWll novel coming out next April,…

Well! Thank you to all the participants who booked early.  The masterclasses are sold out in both cities and I’m looking forward to working with all of you on building credible worlds.  I hope everyone is bringing chocolate!