by Jacqx Melilli | May 31, 2025 | Articles, True Stories
After spending years working on my Australian historical novel, When The Glitter Fades, it was refreshing to take off my history research hat and delve into a smorgasbord of books and author talks at the Sydney Writers’ Festival—19 to 27 May 2025. There were around...
by Jacqx Melilli | Apr 28, 2025 | Articles, True Stories
Writing—you either love it, hate it, or see it as nothing more than something we must do in life to communicate. What inspires you to write? While I love to write, it doesn’t come easily to me. I have to work at it—a bit like kneading bread—I massage the words, then...
by Jacqx Melilli | Mar 22, 2025 | Articles, True Stories
The GenreCon launch party, with its fantasy-themed attire, kicked off at Cloudland in Fortitude Valley on Friday 28 February. While I’m not into casting spells or any such things, I do enjoy meeting writers and learning about their writing journey and the business of...
by Jacqx Melilli | Jan 2, 2025 | Articles, True Stories
Admit it. You’ve allowed another year to pass you by and the promise you made to yourself to write your memoir has not seen the light of day. Let me guess what your excuses might be: Who’s going to want to read it? I don’t have time I don’t know where to start I don’t...
by Jacqx Melilli | Jan 2, 2025 | Articles, Research, True Stories
I’m so grateful for librarians who helped me find the sparse information on record on Australian entertainment history for my historical fiction novel, When the Glitter Fades. They have unfathomable knowledge on how to find just about anything in the bottomless...
by Jacqx Melilli | Aug 30, 2023 | Film Reviews, General, True Stories
A little girl is sitting in her bedroom drumming and singing a tune. She’s eleven years old with the voice of an angel and the dangerous gift of beauty. Her name is Rocio. A beautiful woman knocks on the door of her house and tells her how impressed she is with her...
