![]() ![]() You’re inviting everyone to sit beside your characters in their car, at their office, and to slide between the tangled sheets and stay there until the sweat dries. When you wr ite a book, any book, you are giving the world a piece of yourself with it. “Two rival female journalists solving a mystery and, um, getting it on. The one where the beautiful crime-solving protagonists have steamy sex and no euphemisms were harmed in the process. So my boss, this boss, wants to read my book. Her ex-husband is a tub-thumping, dog-whistling former radio shock jock, a bastion of conservatism. She has a dyed, blonde-white bob, a love of fashion, a cutting tongue and a steely gaze that misses nothing. ![]() My boss at the mainstream newspaper where I work is 67 years old. Her post below shares some similarities with Inga Simpson’s and Tricia Dearborn’s, in that it delves into the complexities of revealing one’s lesbian/queer identity on the page. Lee is an award-winning newspaper journalist and in her 25-year career has lived in almost every state of Australia, covering courts, crime, entertainment, hard news, features and humour writing. ![]() ![]() Over October, we’re holding a focus on lesbian/queer Australian women writers, and this week we’re very happy to feature Lee Winter, who has just released her book The Red Files. ![]()
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