About Selma O_S

Location: Sydney, Australia

Age:44

Website: http://selmainthecity.wordpress.com

Favorite novels: Great Expectations, The Little Friend, Atonement, City of Darkness City Of Light,The Accidental, The Witch of Cologne, The Longings of Women, Vernon God Little, Seven Types Of Ambiguity, Across The Nightingale Floor, Wuthering Heights, Frankenstein - I think I'd better stop now!

Favorite writers: Carol Shields, Donna Tartt, Marilyn French, Marge Piercy, The Brontes, Tobsha Lerner, Mary Stewart, Rosalind Miles, Eliot Perlman, Gerard Woodward. George Eliot. Lian Hearn, Margaret Atwood, Margaret Drabble, Alice Hoffman, Elisabeth Knox, Ian McEwan

Favorite music: Depends on the genre. Wagner and Gregorian chants for horror; Celtic folk music for fantasy; Rock/Pop for contemporary fiction. I've never written romance but if I did I would listen to Ella doing The Harold Arlen songbook.

Non-noveling interests: Playing piano and guitar; songwriting; rescuing native wildlife; rollerblading; making short films; watching movies; family and friends; goldfish; gardening