by Sam Woodgarth | Mar 26, 2023 | Opinions, Recommended reads
Get The Girls Out by Lucy Bloom I met Lucy, very briefly, at the Cairns Tropical Writers Festival. Unable to resist her aura, I approached her. Her instant response was, “We look like we should be friends.” Get The Girls Out was a birthday gift from my husband and...
by Sam Woodgarth | Oct 6, 2024 | About Sam, Author Events, Media Kit 2023
I first met Amanda Cranston (ABC breakfast radio) at the Tropical Writers’ Festival in March 2023, where she expressed an interest in interviewing me for her morning show. We stayed in contact reconnected in person at the Yungaburra Book Festival. The invitation...
by Sam Woodgarth | Sep 10, 2024 | Author Events
Confession Time. Never, not once, have I attended a festival. Book fairs? Yes! Festivals? Nope. The Townsville Medieval & Fantasy Festival caught my attention. Sounded like my tribe. How could I not attend? Without experience, and being an inaugural event, I had...
by Sam Woodgarth | Aug 12, 2023 | DragonSkin I The Goddess Reborn
Old Fashioned Caraway Seed Cake When I was a youngling, food was endured, not enjoyed. I come from a long line of atrocious cooks, which is proof you can survive almost anything. Veggies were routinely boiled and mashed. Potatoes, cauliflower, carrots, cabbage,...
by Sam Woodgarth | Mar 6, 2023 | About Sam
Welcome to my worlds. I write epic high fantasy for modern women who fully expect a place at the fantasy high table.You are invited to join me on perilous quests, where you’ll encounter telepathic dragons and wolves, witches and wraiths, and unique creatures born from...
by Sam Woodgarth | Feb 21, 2023 | About Sam
My earliest friends were twelve white rabbits. Six boys in blue waistcoats, and six girls in pink pinafores. Before you get your knickers in a knot about gender stereotypes, I was three years old, and doubtless influenced by Beatrix Potter’s delightful anthropomorphic...
by Sam Woodgarth | Feb 11, 2023 | About Sam
Writers get this question all the time. Usually accompanied by a puzzled frown. The questioner is often poised for flight. Who knows what demons they may have roused by asking such searching questions. This is, mayhap, the simplest or the most complicated question an...
by Sam Woodgarth | Jan 30, 2023 | Opinions
[/et_pb_column] Women In Fantasy [/et_pb_column][/et_pb_section] [/et_pb_column] Tired of female characters in fantasy who exist only as targets of male aggression, or to demonstrate the evil and conniving nature of women? (Think Game of Thrones.)Â Yeah, me too....
