Jay Verney Jay Verney i(A32230 works by)
Born: Established: Rockhampton, Rockhampton - Yeppoon area, Maryborough - Rockhampton area, Queensland, ;
Gender: Female
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1 y separately published work icon Zenku 365 : A Zenku a Day Invites Mindfulness to Stay Jay Verney , Gaythorne : Zen Kettle Books , 2016 9701523 2016 selected work poetry

'... When you write a Zenku, you create your life in moments. In Zenku 365, Jay Verney offers a year of Zenkus (plus a Leap Zenku, plus spares!), and a micro workshop to guide you on your way to writing your own Zenku life. ...' (Source: Amazon website)

1 y separately published work icon The Mindful Art of Verandaku : Micro Poems in a Macro World Jay Verney , Gaythorne : Jay Verney , 2016 9460305 2016 selected work poetry
1 y separately published work icon Creating A Custom Fit In An Off-The-Rack Genre World : The Proximal Investigator, The Corpse of Convenience, and Their Family of Circumstance in Crime Fiction Jay Verney , Gaythorne : Jay Verney , 2016 9363433 2016 single work criticism

'Creating A Custom Fit In An Off-The-Rack Genre World is about the three main kinds of characters found in murder fiction: the investigators, the victims, and the suspects. It is possible to place these characters along a creative continuum. from the relatively formulaic to the relatively unique, from stock characters to more fully-realised human beings. Custom Fit takes a fresh perspective on these characters, suggesting new terms for each role. The detective or investigator becomes the Proximal Investigator, and the victim the Corpse of Convenience. The collective term for the suspects is the Family of Circumstance, remembering that, initially at least, everyone in a murder novel is suspect.

'Using examples from novels by Peter Hoeg, Henning Mankell, Walter Mosley, and Sara Paretsky, this text asks questions such as: how do murder fiction’s characters achieve a sense of difference in their roles, even as they abide by established conventions, demonstrating traits and behaviours similar to other investigators, suspects and victims? How do they flout convention while following it? And how do they contribute to the genre’s evolution and development?

'Creating A Custom Fit in an Off-the-Rack Genre World is a stand-alone text but also a companion essay to the novel, Summon Up The Blood, both of which formed the author’s doctorate in Creative Writing, which received a University of Queensland Dean’s Award for Outstanding Research Higher Degree Thesis.' (Publication summary)

1 The Women Came and Went Jay Verney , 2016 single work essay
— Appears in: The Women Come and Go : A Memoir [and] The Women Came and Went : An Essay 2016;
1 y separately published work icon The Women Come and Go : A Memoir [and] The Women Came and Went : An Essay Jay Verney , Gaythorne : Jay Verney , 2016 9361240 2016 selected work autobiography essay

'The Women Come And Go is a memoir of several generations of working-class women from a Central Queensland family. Told through personal knowledge and memories, and recreations of events, along with family artefacts such as treasured love letters from the author's father to her mother, Jay Verney offers a story both intimate and relatable. The Women Come And Go considers the interdependent historical, cultural and personal contexts of the women's lives and how each generation has irrevocably influenced the next.

'The second part of the book, The Women Came And Went, is an essay which critiques and reflects upon the memoir, establishing the background to its conception and creations and describing an Index of Artefacts both unique to the family and universally recognisable.' (Publication summary)

1 y separately published work icon Haiku with a Twist : The Mindful Art of Catku, Foodku, and Gardenku Jay Verney , Gaythorne : Jay Verney , 2016 10258764 2016 selected work poetry

'"Haiku With A Twist" is for lovers of cats, food, gardens, and poetry, in particular, micro poetry. The 300 catku, foodku, and gardenku poems in this book are selected from Jay Verney’s previously published works, "Zenku 365," volumes one and two of "The Mindful Art Of Verandaku," and her poetry blog, Zen Kettle – It Makes Tea (www.zenkettle.wordpress.com if you’d like to check it out at your leisure), which has been running continuously for over four years (and is chock full of energetic little poems about everything).

'Haiku is a poetic form that punches above its weight. Its strict boundaries of three lines and a limited number of syllables (usually 17 or fewer) are the very elements that give it power and, perhaps counter-intuitively, the creative freedom to explore every moment without exception. Good things, as the saying goes, come in small packages.

'Haiku is both immediate and timeless, and offers the reader an opportunity to welcome each poem into their own life’s experience as a friend and an inspiration.

'"Haiku With A Twist" can be read from ‘cover’ to ‘cover’ (pixel upon pixel) or as a lucky dip. What do you love the most? Cats, food, or gardens? Can’t choose? Don’t worry, simply go with the mindful flow and enjoy.' (Publication summary)

1 y separately published work icon Summon up the Blood Jay Verney , Gaythorne : Zen Kettle Books , 2014 8197507 2014 single work novel crime

'A little boy murdered in the most tragic of circumstances, and avenging angels intent on revenge. Obsessed, unscrupulous art collectors and the international antiquities thieves who service their desires. The Olympic Games and an elite group of corrupt Chinese agents double-crossing each other. An organised crime family on the path to redemption. What could they all possibly have in common? Livia Galvin - grieving mother, Olympic shooting champion, art gallery owner, and now, an unwitting participant in a conspiracy with a billionaire oligarch. Attacked by would-be assassins on her way to Beijing airport, Livia finally arrives home to find her family in chaos after the unexplained death of her godmother. It's only the beginning of a quest in which Livia will need all of her considerable strength of purpose and character to accept her unexpected new role when the most startling and life-changing surprise of all is revealed. With new revelations and threats at every turn, Livia Galvin and her most faithful supporters must truly 'imitate the actions of the tiger, and summon up the blood' in this novel of intrigue and passion that stretches from Bogota to Boston, and from Beijing to London, with its ultimate source in sub-tropical River City on the 27th parallel: the sunniest place in the world for some of the shadiest people you'll ever meet.' (Publication summary)

1 y separately published work icon Spawned Secrets Jay Verney , United States of America (USA) : Zen Kettle Books , 2012 Z1935496 2012 single work novel crime thriller 'The Global Financial Crisis is in full swing. Banks and businesses are closing. Homes are foreclosed. Bernie Madoff has been arrested. Jobs and savings are lost forever. People are angry, very, very angry.

A group of disgraced (and disgraceful) stockbrokers are enjoying a rainforest getaway weekend as a severe storm front approaches. And a deadly secret blows in from their past, carried by a mystery stalker, 'Guy Friendly,' determined to execute each and every one of them with surgical precision and the wrath of an avenging demon.

Their only protection comes in the form of Garfield Fletcher, former ship's cook, jilted lover, and now, fake private eye, courtesy of his ever-so-slightly-shady cousin, Henry Pinkert. The ink on Garfield's newly printed Certificate of Accreditation is barely dry when he finds himself up against the mystery killer who will inspire the most difficult choices Garfield has ever had to make.' (Publisher's blurb)
1 Some Clubs I Have Known Jay Verney , 2005 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Griffith Review , Winter no. 8 2005; (p. 47-53)
1 Sensual Degrees of Separation Jay Verney , 2004-2005 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Griffith Review , Summer no. 6 2004-2005; (p. 121-128) A Revealed Life : Australian Writers and Their Journeys in Memoir 2007; (p. 55-62)
1 8 y separately published work icon Percussion Jay Verney , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2004 Z1113989 2004 single work novel humour
1 The Multiple Effects of Thea Astley's Fiction Jay Verney , 2002 single work criticism
— Appears in: Hot Iron Corrugated Sky : 100 Years of Queensland Writing 2002; (p. 100-110)
1 Modern Life Jay Verney , 2000 single work short story
— Appears in: Difficult Love : Twenty-Six Intimate Stories by Contemporary Queensland Writers 2000; (p. 96 - 99)
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1 Jay Verney: 'A Mortality Tale' Jay Verney , 2000 extract novel (A Mortality Tale)
— Appears in: Mixed Grain: Celebrating 20 Years of 'The Australian' Vogel Literary Award 2000; (p. 121-128)
1 So Crime Really Does Pay Jay Verney , 1998 single work column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 31 January 1998; (p. 8)
1 Short, Sweet and Unpublished? Jay Verney , 1998 single work column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 17 January 1998; (p. 8)
1 y separately published work icon The Women Come and Go Jay Verney , St Lucia : 1998 Z1504419 1998 single work thesis
1 Tropical Habits Jay Verney , 1998 single work autobiography
— Appears in: School's Out : Learning to be a Writer in Queensland : An Anthology in Six Lessons 1998; (p. 63-69)
1 Writing from Life Jay Verney , 1997 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , no. 54-55 1997; (p. 210-213) Story / Telling 2001; Story / Telling 2001; (p. 216-222)
1 Avoiding a Write-Off Jay Verney , 1997 single work column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 27 September 1997; (p. wkd 8)
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