About Me
Vital stats – 31 years old, live in Adelaide, with fiancé and 3 cats. I love current affairs, politics, reading, renovating houses, watching football (AFL – go Port Adelaide!), going to movies and most importantly…. writing!
I have a day job (in the marketing/communications field) and many other community and social commitments in my life, but I still find plenty of time to write. It’s amazing how you make time to do the things that make you most happy!
This blog was started as a journal to track my experiences in writing books and having them read. I wrote my first ‘book’ when I was in my early twenties – it was a non-fiction guide to surviving and thriving as a teenage girl and is called Too Cool for School. Nothing became of that book and it will probably never see the light of day again. I moved onto fiction, and throughout 2008/09 wrote my first manuscript – Times of Trouble. I have recently finished my second manuscript – Conspire. ‘Finished’ is a bit of a vague word in this sense – I would say it is definitely in ‘first draft’ format. So this is where the blog begins. Who knows where it will go from here!
I hope you enjoy reading about my experiences.
hello Victoria, congrats on finishing Conspire.
yr aunt Marian (my very kind advisor) pointed me to yr blog,esp re self-publishing. thanks.
& here’s another link re self-publishing FYI
http://khyiahangel.com/2011/07/05/a-risk-worth-taking/
cheers & lots of luck
mary
Hi, I’m also writing a novel about a conspiracy theory. If you’d like to talk about ideas, or maybe read each other’s work and do some criticism, feel free to email me.
Hi Victoria,
Interesting that we both published books on Bilderberg withing 2 days of each other in July on Smashwords.com (with an Eastern European flavour) and 10 days later if you search on thrillers, most downloaded, free and full (50-100,000 words), Conspire and The Paper Factory are still beside each other. Now that is a conspiracy
Best of luck with your novel,
Norrie
I am 82. My blog and CV is under my own name “Ernest Armstrong”. I have learnt in those 82 years that there is much truth in that proverb that says you cannot put an old head on young shoulders and I am still learning. I suggest that this proverb is still accurate. I have found that in writing 30 letters in the past year to Politicians, Professors, Media Gurus, TV Spokespersons, Journalists and self proclaimed experts that I have received only one reply and answer to a question and with his final words being that he felt that at 82 I deserved the truth and that truth was absolutely devestating as regards how our Govt is managed.
You encouraged me to start my own blog: http://polanimal.com.au/wp/?p=29
Well done, more for me to do
Just discovered your writing through seeing a tweet about being blocked by latika. I am in that club too. great piece as was your one on mark Colvin. I have been a journalist since 1965. these days I despair at what passes for journalism and I despair that the abc thinks latika is part of the answer. cheers
Hi Victoria, congratulations on your Ashbygate peice. I am not a journalist, but someone interested in the democratic process and hungry for some fearless thoughtful and mature comment. It was wonderful to read your work.
Sue Flatman
[...] By Victoria Rollinson December 15, 2012 Source: victoriarollison.com [...]
Hi Vic
Susie O’Brien here from Adelaide Uni (many years ago now), I came across some of your comments on twitter and so followed various links to your excellent blog. I have signed up so look forward to some great debates. Please give my best to Kay and Rob, and to Cat. I hope I have remembered all the family names correctly. I would love to know what your mum is up to now, I remember her very fondly!
All the best, Susie
Hi Victoria. You don’t know me but I love reading what you are writing! You write clearly & succinctly, with great verve and dash. Just a breath of fresh air. One day you might wish to consider going into politics. You would greatly enthrall all those present in Parliament, wether State or Federal. Keep up the good writing!