Having read practically all of Michael Connelly’s books and being very much inspired by his character, Detective Harry Bosch, when writing my novel No Man’s Land, it was great to return to my roots as a journalist, sit down with him at the Wharf during the 2015 Sydney Writers’ Festival and interview him.
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Book Review By Karen Chisholm A thriller that features surfing and a special operative anti-terrorism order, based on Eastern mysticism, is not exactly “expected territory” even with the best will in the world. Which makes NO MAN’S LAND by Australian author Roland Fishman an interesting prospect. For something that starts out with such an odd […]
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Favourite things: Roland Fishman, author, taking people back to their future
Spectrum Article by Ali Gripper
Roland Fishman’s Writer’s Studio is one of the quiet success stories of Sydney.
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This is a rather arty video of the No Man’s Land Book launch. It features readings from Writers’ Studio writers from our Pathway to Publishing Course, Fred Talib, Liz Stevens and Elizabeth Farrelly. The focus of the evening was a Q and A with Roland, Kathleen Allen and Nick Lathouris, who co-wrote Mad Max 1V Fury […]
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The Night – Bronte Surf Club We were thrilled to see over two hundred people at the book launch for Roland Fishman’s novel, No Man’s Land a Russell Carter Thriller. The evening kicked off with three writers from our Fourth Draft-Pathway to Publishing Coursewho read from the novels they are writing with us – Fred […]
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The inspiration behind No Man’s Land started with a ninja… I was six years old when I saw my first ninja on television. The scene opened with a group of villagers eating dinner inside the walls of a poor village compound. A lone figure dressed in black from head to toe stood on a wall. […]
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I was thrilled that Susan Wyndham, the Literary Editor of The Sydney Morning Herald contacted me regarding the publication of No Man’s Land. Below is her column that appeared in the Herald on 16th August, 2014. Underneath that is a transcript of the original interview. I like to think of it as the “writer’s” cut. A TEACHER LEARNS TO WRITE […]
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For an action adventure thriller like No Man’s Land, the biggest challenge is to avoid creating cardboard cut out villains.
Or as James Bond succinctly put it in Dr No – ‘World domination. Same old dream. Our asylums are full of people who think they’re Naploeon. Or God.’
Finding the right opponent is at the heart of creating a good story. As well-known scriptwriting consultant John Truby says, if you get the opposition right, your story will almost certainly succeed. If you get the opposition wrong, your story will almost certainly fail.
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Sporting achievement became my holy grail when I was eight years old. I was playing my first Rugby game for the Newport Seahorses against the Dee Why Lions. Twenty minutes into the game, I dived on the ball over the try line and unwittingly scored a try. All my teammates rushed over to congratulate me. […]
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