WHEN DO YOU WORK? WHAT DOES A TYPICAL DAY LOOK LIKE? Up until now this hasn’t been a problem, but I’ve recently taken to plotting on an enormous corkboard, so it now means transferring my laptop, corkboard, pens, cardboard, scissors, pins and notebooks. If I need to escape the family I go into the bedroom. This can be anywhere from the library to the backseat of my car, but most of the time I sit cross-legged on an armchair with my dog, Otto, by my feet. I haven’t got a study, or even a desk, so I work wherever I am. I didn’t set out to write them that way, but I’ve been pondering what it means to be an outsider ever since I rocked up to primary school with my weird surname, weirder sandwiches, and love of opera. Many of the characters in Resurrection Bay could be considered to be outsiders.
His investigation takes him places he’d rather not go, including his hometown and estranged family. When a close friend is murdered, a sense of guilt sends Caleb on a hunt for the killer. My latest work is Resurrection Bay, a crime novel featuring Caleb Zelic, a profoundly deaf investigator. WHAT IS YOUR LATEST BOOK OR CURRENT PROJECT? Up until then, I hadn’t shown my work to anyone. Winning them gained me some industry recognition and gave a huge boost to my confidence. My first break was winning the Thunderbolt and Ned Kelly short story awards in consecutive years. The result wasn’t pretty, but I was so relieved to be writing again that I’ve barely missed a day since. So I had stern words with myself, sat down, and wrote a book. By the time I was thirty, I was missing writing so much it was like an ache.
I’ve been writing since I could read, but my music career consumed most of my time and energy for many years. She is currently working on the sequel to Resurrection Bay. A classical clarinettist by training, she lives in Melbourne’s inner north and divides her time between writing, performing and teaching. Harvey Award, and the New England Thunderbolt Prize for her short form fiction, and has been published in Award Winning Australian Writing. Emma Viskic is the author of the critically acclaimed crime novel, Resurrection Bay (Echo Publishing, 2015).
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