by Jacqx Melilli | Mar 9, 2025 | Events
Jacqx Melilli will be sharing her research journey for her Australian historical fiction novel When The Glitter Fades. The story spans from the 1920s to the 1950s and is loosely based on Alf Broadway’s Pantomime Players and the challenges they faced...
by Jacqx Melilli | Feb 8, 2025 | Articles, Book Reviews
Can you picture (no pun intended) a little boy from the bush—Geelong in Victoria, Australia, actually—who finds a Kodak Brownie box camera in his grandpa’s magnificent dark brown oak wardrobe and instantly falls in love with the art of taking photographs. Little did...
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 | Jun 9, 2023 | True Stories
Writing my debut historical fiction novel, When The Glitter Fades is proving to be a mammoth task. For starters, I changed the title four times, from Broadway Star to Rogues and Vagabonds to All That Glitters is Not Gold and for now I’ve settled on When The...
by Jacqx Melilli | Jun 9, 2023 | Research, True Stories
Researching Australian vaudeville for my historical fiction novel, When the Glitter Fades continues. I’m so grateful for librarians. They have unfathomable knowledge on how to find just about anything in the bottomless pit of books, information, resources,...
