'Nic Brasch: Welcome to The Garret. Toni Jordan is a top writer, a fun writer, her four novels have made bestseller lists in Australia, and around the world. Her novel Nine Days won Best Fiction at the 2012 Indie Awards, and her latest novel, Our Tiny, Useless Hearts, is a ‘tour-de-farce’.' (Introduction)
Show notes
- Toni is most definitely a ‘pantser’, meaning she writes ‘by the seat of her pants’ (as opposed to planning out what she will write). You can read about the ‘pros and cons of plotters and pantsers’ at The Write Practice.
- Toni read Enid Blyton, and was devoted to The Faraway Tree series. She also loved Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes series.
- You can read about the satirical parody of Enid Blyton’s work mentioned by Nic here.
- At the time of recording this interview, Toni was reading Their Brilliant Careers by Ryan O'Neill by Black Inc. Books.
- Toni completed the Diploma of Professional Writing and Editing at RMIT University.
- Nic mentions Don Tilman, Graeme Simsion’s character in The Rosie Project.
- Toni admires the work of Zadie Smith.
- Georges Feydeau was a French playwright who wrote farces.
- Faulty Towers was a famous farcical British sitcom that ran from 1975 until 1979.
- Dario Fo was an Italian playwright who wrote We Can’t Pay? We Won’t Pay! and Accidental Death of an Anarchist.
- Toni discusses the writing style of another Australian writer, Kate Forsythe.
- Toni teaches at the Faber Academy in Melbourne Australia.
