Glenda Larke

Glenda’s The Watergivers/Stormlord trilogy

won the

Sara Douglass Award for best Speculative Fiction series in 2014.

Her novel The Lascar’s Dagger won the Ditmar Award (Best Novel) in 2015 and the Tin Duck Award (Best WA Professional Long Written Work) in 2017.

Ditmar Award 2015 and Tin Duck Award 2017.

Accolades

Eleven of her novels were Aurealis Awards finalists for the best Australian Fantasy Novel of the Year: The Aware (2003), Tainted (2004), Heart of the Mirage (2006), Song of the Shiver Barrens (2007), The Last Stormlord (2009), Stormlord Rising (2010), Stormlord’s Exile (2011), The Lascar’s Dagger (2014), The Dagger’s Path (2015) and Fall of the Dagger (2016).

UPDATE …News

Posted on September 6, 2024 by Glenda LarkeSeptember 6, 2024

I haven’t written a post for a long time…mostly because people don’t read blog posts anymore. But anyway, I have some news about my latest book, so here goes, and maybe someone will come across this… My latest is “The … Continue reading →

A Look at the Past When the World was Another Place…

Posted on March 19, 2023 by Glenda LarkeMarch 19, 2023

I have been going through my old letters to my mum, which she returned to me before she died. Every now and then I dip into one and find out what a lousy memory I now have. Scary. Many things … Continue reading →

A Stranger in a Strange Land

Posted on March 8, 2023 by Glenda LarkeMarch 8, 2023

(Title Pinched from another writer, of course) Back in 1970 my husband took me to my in-laws’ house. We’d landed in KL at night, and were taken by car to the family home in Melaka (Malacca) where my husband had … Continue reading →

Why it Took 30 Years to Become a Successful Author

Posted on January 2, 2023 by Glenda LarkeJanuary 2, 2023

EPISODE 1: Early DaysAt eight years old, I decided that I was going to be an “authoress”. I wrote my first book when I was twelve. For some weird reason, it was set in Scotland even though I’d never been … Continue reading →

Here’s ten things I have learned as a fantasy writer for 30+ years:

Posted on November 6, 2022 by Glenda LarkeNovember 9, 2022

1. No matter how brilliantly you write, there will still be people who will assume you write crap because it’s fantasy.2. There is no way a fantasy writer can answer the question, “What’s it about?” without sounding like an utter … Continue reading →

On Writing in the First Person

Posted on November 3, 2022 by Glenda LarkeNovember 3, 2022

At least four of my fourteen novels were written (mostly) using the first person point of view. Here’s an extract from The Tainted as an example: My last glimpse through avian eyes appalled me: I saw birds turn into people … Continue reading →

WHAT HAPPENS IN ONE PART OF THE WORLD CAN AFFECT ANOTHER…

Posted on August 4, 2022 by Glenda LarkeAugust 4, 2022

We in Western Australia –bordered by the Indian Ocean–have been benefiting visually from the Tonga volcanic mid-January eruption in the Pacific, 7000 thousand kilometres distant, and we are still getting brilliant post-sunset glows high in the sky after the setting … Continue reading →

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