<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Karen Ginnane, Author]]></title><description><![CDATA[Author of the Time Catchers series - an exciting, vivid historical fantasy for YA readers.]]></description><link>https://kjginnane.wixsite.com/mysite/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 21:10:07 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://kjginnane.wixsite.com/mysite/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[The road to being published - Part Four. Edits, edits and more edits.]]></title><description><![CDATA[This is the exhausted and euphoric face of a post-edits author (it's also our wedding anniversary, in Hobart, which is also exactly two...]]></description><link>https://kjginnane.wixsite.com/mysite/post/the-road-to-being-published-part-four-edits-edits-and-more-edits</link><guid isPermaLink="false">614e854e3a6cda0017cdb24d</guid><pubDate>Sat, 25 Sep 2021 02:32:49 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9e35c6_0b194f2cb0ea45e8abec7569071f9b73~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Karen Ginnane</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The road to being published - Part Three. Getting a publishing deal.]]></title><description><![CDATA[I had an offer from my dream agent and I accepted with unbecoming alacrity. I loved Danielle’s passion for books, her depth of publishing...]]></description><link>https://kjginnane.wixsite.com/mysite/post/the-road-to-being-published-part-three-getting-a-publishing-deal</link><guid isPermaLink="false">610e27677451bd0015c59fad</guid><pubDate>Sat, 07 Aug 2021 06:50:07 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9e35c6_6a9c83ae652440b282f6b8086ffd5369~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_960,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Karen Ginnane</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The road to being published - Part Two. Getting an agent.]]></title><description><![CDATA[So, I’d decided. My formerly contemporary tale of two cities actually belonged in Victorian London. This decision opened up a whole new...]]></description><link>https://kjginnane.wixsite.com/mysite/post/the-road-to-being-published-part-two-getting-an-agent</link><guid isPermaLink="false">60fa184ca862e30015e0f20c</guid><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2021 01:44:34 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9e35c6_16d5f7877afc461aaf3b5f7088a91cea~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_335,h_334,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Karen Ginnane</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The road to being published - Part One. Getting a story.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Standing on the shoulders of giants - aka research rabbit holes As I write this, I’m on the verge of being an author published by Penguin...]]></description><link>https://kjginnane.wixsite.com/mysite/post/the-road-to-being-publishing-part-one</link><guid isPermaLink="false">60db9d5e4ec3f50015c12581</guid><pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2021 22:40:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9e35c6_887db14e645e44c89f17a877e3aeaede~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Karen Ginnane</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Big Yellow House in the mountains]]></title><description><![CDATA[The big yellow house itself Last week I went on a writing residency to Varuna, in the Blue Mountains. That sentence feels like a miracle....]]></description><link>https://kjginnane.wixsite.com/mysite/post/the-big-yellow-house-in-the-mountains</link><guid isPermaLink="false">604a83c2c0cdaa004161461a</guid><pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2021 21:08:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9e35c6_182aa7e472584ddaa3b3001edcaf8628~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Karen Ginnane</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is kin]]></title><description><![CDATA[I spent a week in the Tarra Valley of Victoria at the start of the year. This lush, cool landscape contains remnants of ancient...]]></description><link>https://kjginnane.wixsite.com/mysite/post/the-world-is-kin</link><guid isPermaLink="false">60298dcdf40a0c0017516e7f</guid><pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2021 21:31:29 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9e35c6_806066a73b9348abb977e074dc2b6929~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Karen Ginnane</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Growing pains ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Artwork used with kind permission of Victorian Naidoc On Tuesday, I sat alone in the pre-dawn dark and watched a livestream of the Day of...]]></description><link>https://kjginnane.wixsite.com/mysite/post/growing-pains</link><guid isPermaLink="false">601348a17daeb40017fd857d</guid><pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2021 00:55:08 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9e35c6_badc30572d8045cebb704010a3caba3d~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_500,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Karen Ginnane</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Looking at looking]]></title><description><![CDATA[As a writer, I look a lot. I’m always watching people, observing mannerisms, how they dress, how they stand, move their hands, tilt their...]]></description><link>https://kjginnane.wixsite.com/mysite/post/looking-at-looking</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5f792a9076f5b10017d44655</guid><pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2020 01:58:04 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9e35c6_febfd1cb0eb041929e7fa93fd1e820c6~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Karen Ginnane</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lockdown, brain crumble and Djilba.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Greetings from the depths of lockdown stage 4 in Melbourne. It’s only week two, impossibly. It’s hard this time round, isn’t it, fellow...]]></description><link>https://kjginnane.wixsite.com/mysite/post/lockdown-brain-crumble-and-djilba</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5f3624b21b28bd00173fc621</guid><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2020 06:21:14 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9e35c6_c67d5be2fe374ad7ac11e8ae81de78c7~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Karen Ginnane</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where we've been, and where to go.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Friends, where do we start? These past weeks have felt like a time for lil ol’ white me to shut up, sit back and listen. To share and...]]></description><link>https://kjginnane.wixsite.com/mysite/post/where-we-ve-been-and-where-to-go</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5ee0c3d16063a30018fcce4a</guid><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2020 12:02:01 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9e35c6_080143d069ac45399879b4a5b502c10f~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_940,h_627,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Karen Ginnane</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sorry not sorry]]></title><description><![CDATA[On National Sorry Day, I saw the news that a mining company had blown up a 46,000 year old Indigenous site in Juukan Gorge in the Pilbara...]]></description><link>https://kjginnane.wixsite.com/mysite/post/sorry-not-sorry</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5ecee6cc19f04d0018d38e2b</guid><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2020 23:25:44 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9e35c6_259ba796ec854ddf9c2754a34083c03a~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Karen Ginnane</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The recognition in repetition]]></title><description><![CDATA[There’s a lot of repetition these days. In the circling walks that are my only outing, in the routines of baking and cooking and limited...]]></description><link>https://kjginnane.wixsite.com/mysite/post/the-recognition-in-repetition</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5ec4855dac5e880017d381fc</guid><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2020 09:01:01 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9e35c6_84c28b44f7a74e66830d8597a2dfc62c~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Karen Ginnane</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing London]]></title><description><![CDATA[So, I've always written. I have boxes of embarrassing journals, which I’ll never be able to re-read without wincing - earnest,...]]></description><link>https://kjginnane.wixsite.com/mysite/post/writing-london</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5eace6aa667025009b44d86d</guid><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2020 04:18:59 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9e35c6_061e9ab2a30b437caccd2cce32df07cc~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_564,h_423,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Karen Ginnane</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Steve in time ]]></title><description><![CDATA[The other day, I got ready to go out for my morning iso-walk, which doubles as my writing-thinking-time. It was a pink-smeared morning...]]></description><link>https://kjginnane.wixsite.com/mysite/post/a-steve-in-time</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5e9bfa5c33f7b80017743216</guid><pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2020 08:03:31 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9e35c6_c81740343a2c41e19106709c4c0e9373~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Karen Ginnane</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Explore the world from home this Easter]]></title><description><![CDATA[It's a funny old time, right now. I don't want to mither on about how difficult it is, with no social contact and not being able to see -...]]></description><link>https://kjginnane.wixsite.com/mysite/post/explore-the-world-from-home-this-easter</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5e8ed86d90a26f0017714e1f</guid><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2020 08:36:38 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9e35c6_19c34ffbb98c4700aaa5cdf1a7b8a115~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Karen Ginnane</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baby bookworm me]]></title><description><![CDATA[I remember learning to read. I remember having read all the books in my classroom at Camboon Primary School in Perth - I must have been...]]></description><link>https://kjginnane.wixsite.com/mysite/post/baby-bookworm-me</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5e8e52bb61b29700172ceb83</guid><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2020 22:41:01 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9e35c6_efbc79bb2c474cfb989a0b2640941291~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Karen Ginnane</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Welcome to my new website and blog!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Welcome to this new nook of cyberspace! My microscopic niche on the web, which I will decorate and gleefully stuff with the strange...]]></description><link>https://kjginnane.wixsite.com/mysite/post/welcome-to-my-new-website-and-blog</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5e8307e603f33a001708d1c1</guid><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2020 05:16:48 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9e35c6_a552cc9269ea4ac1aa117f01dfaad172~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Karen Ginnane</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>