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SUMMARY:JACQX MELILLI - Author Talk - Stories behind the storyteller
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a very special presentation with author and researcher Jacqx Melilli at our Port Macquarie Library on Saturday 2nd May at 2.00pm.\n \nJacquelin (Jacqx) Melilli is an author\, playwright\, and writing coach. She has a Master of Arts degree in Writing and Literature from Deakin University. In 2002\, she founded her copywriting and editing business\, Jacq of all Trades\, Master of Writing\, and now runs memoir and creative writing workshops. Her published works are influenced by her involvement in film\, television and theatre. These include the educational book series Lights\, Camera\, Action on filmmaking and theatre production\, one-act plays\, short stories\, and her Australian historical novel\, When The Glitter Fades. Jacqx will be sharing her research journey for her novel\, which spans from the 1920s to the 1950s and is loosely based on Alf Broadway’s Pantomime Players and the challenges they faced surviving the Great Depression. \nJacqx met Alf’s daughter\, Shirley Barnett (nee Broadway) when they were both involved in community theatre in Coffs Harbour. Shirley shared her story about being a child vaudeville performer and later working with Bert Newton and Graham Kennedy in the early years of Australian television. This inspired Jacqx to preserve these great Australian stories by merging true events with fiction to create an engaging generational saga\, love triangle revenge story for her debut novel\, When The Glitter Fades. Her research journey included three trips to Victoria to visit the State Library\, the Melbourne Arts Centre\, interview comedy writer Hugh Stuckey\, and retrace one of the troupe’s touring circuits where the devastating ‘accident’ happened. The presentation will include photographs and interview snippets of Shirley Broadway’s life as a child performer and Frank Gasser \nWHEN THE GLITTER FADES\n\n\n\nVinnie\, a criminal on the run\, finds refuge in a travelling show. He sets up his own vaudeville troupe just as the Great Depression hits Melbourne. Smitten with Belle\, his star performer\, a battle for her love ensues when Artis\, his protégé\, lays eyes on her.\nLured with promises of fame and fortune by both men\, Belle joins Artis’s new showbiz venture\, leaving Vinnie hell-bent on revenge.\nA marriage of convenience provides Vinnie with the funds and power he needs to destroy Artis’s business and win Belle back. But when Vinnie makes a deal with the mob\, it ends up costing him everything when a blackmail letter gets into the wrong hands.\nIs Belle playing Artis and Vinnie in her quest for fame? Can her love be trusted? Is she a pawn in a twisted game\, or the mastermind behind the curtain?\nWill a love child be the ultimate undoing in their bitter feud? \nWhen the Glitter Fades encapsulates Australia’s entertainment history\, from the Association for the Advancement of the Blind concert’s variety acts to vaudeville\, burlesque\, and circus life. The story is loosely based on true events of Alf Broadway’s Pantomime Players and spans from the 1920s to the 1950s\, ending just as Australian television was being established. The novel also incorporates the polio pandemic and the controversial therapies used by Sister Elizabeth Kenny \nJACQX WILL BE SELLING AND SIGNING COPIES OF WHEN THE GLITTER FADES AT THIS EVENT.
URL:https://mnclibrary.org.au/event/jacqx-melilli-author-talk-stories-behind-the-storyteller/
LOCATION:Port Macquarie Library\, 32 Grant St\, Port Macquarie\, New South Wales\, 2444\, Australia
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SUMMARY:EMMA GREY - Author Talk - Stories behind the storyteller
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a chat with award winning author Emma Grey and Leanne at our Port Macquarie Library on Friday 15th May at 4.30pm to hear about her new book START AT THE END.\n \nEmma is the award-winning author of seven books including the USA Today and Australian bestsellers\, THE LAST LOVE NOTE and PICTURES OF YOU. Her novels have attracted multiple foreign translations deals and a TV option. They were reviewed in the New York Times\, Oprah Daily\, The Washington Post and People magazine. \nPICTURES OF YOU won the gold medal in the American Independent Publisher Book Awards. Along with The Last Love Note\, it received a starred review from the American Library Association. Both books were selected for two major American book clubs\, including the Book of the Month and the Target Book Clubs. They were shortlisted in the ACT Literary Awards and The Last Love Note appeared in the Better Reading Top 100. \nEmma co-wrote a stage musical based on one of her teenage novels\, which was selected for Broadway Unplugged in Sydney and by the Homegrown initiative in Melbourne.  She lives in Canberra\, Australia where her world centres on her children\, step-children and grandchildren\, photography\, music and endlessly chasing the Aurora Australis. \nSTART AT THE END\n\n\n\nWhen Audrey and Fraser tumble into a love story for the ages\, theirs is an epic\, unbreakable love story — until one tragic moment upends everything. \nFacing the unimaginable\, wrestling with guilt\, they’re left haunted by ‘what ifs’. Would their lives still have imploded if they’d done one little thing differently? \nWhere would they be if events had unfolded the other way around? This powerful sliding-doors novel asks if it is ever too late to start again. \n  \nCOLLINS BOOKSELLERS will be joining us for the event with copies to sell for Emma to sign.
URL:https://mnclibrary.org.au/event/emma-grey-author-talk-stories-behind-the-storyteller/
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