In Episode 386 of So You Want To Be A Writer: Meet Pip Drysdale, author of The Paris Affair and discover hot tips for writing arguments. Plus, we have 3 copies of The Speechwriter by Martin McKenzie-Murray to give away.
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Show Notes
$20,000 up for grabs with the 2022 The ‘Australian’/Vogel’s Literary Award
Writer in Residence
Pip Drysdale
Pip Drysdale is a writer, musician and actor who grew up in Africa and Australia. At 20 she moved to New York to study acting, worked in indie films and off-off Broadway theatre, started writing songs and made four records. After graduating with a BA in English, Pip moved to London and played shows across Europe. In 2015, she started writing books.
Her debut novel, The Sunday Girl, was a bestseller and has been published in the United States, Italy, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The Strangers We Know was also a bestseller, is being developed for television, was shortlisted for ‘The Ned Kelly Award’ and came out in the UK in November 2020.
The Paris Affair is her third book and is out in Australia and NZ in Feb 2021.
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Competition
WIN ‘The Speechwriter’ by Martin McKenzie-Murray
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