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I’ve had a long spell away from this blog while I was drafting my third novel, Pacifica. But now that Pacifica is (finally, after a thousand sighs) drafted, and as I prepare for the publication of my second novel, Exit Black, by Blackstone this year, I’m able to give a little more attention to this space. I’ve missed being here, and I’ve missed interacting with you through The Subway Test. I hope to connect with you a little more frequently in the coming months!
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Yeah!!! Congratulations on Pacifica being drafted! And only 1000 sighs!
When is Exit Black released?
So very well done 🙂
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Thanks very much! It’s hard to say what the timeline is for Exit Black, but it will be this year. I’ll keep you all posted…
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I just read your story about the Harmonium. As a Hungarian-born Australian, the names and places resonated with me so much, but it was the actual story that drew me in and kept me reading. Fabulous!
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Thank you so much! I lived in Hungary for a while some years ago–“Harmonium” was partly a love letter to my time there.
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I really need to ask…did you speak Hungarian before you went there, or did you have to learn? I ask because I still speak Hungarian but I recognize how hellishly hard it is for outsiders.
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I didn’t begin studying Hungarian until about three months before I moved there. I found the language fascinating–totally different from anything I had studied before. And by the end of my year there, I could actually speak pretty well. Sajnos, I have forgotten almost everything in the twenty years since I have been back. But I do remember the language very fondly–
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If you’d studied languages before, then learning a new one does become a little easier. I found Japanese to be easier because I was bilingual from the age of 4. Plus the sentence structure doesn’t feel as ‘different’ to me as it would be to a Romance language speaker.
As for Hungarian being different; yes it is. I believe it has a tiny bit of similarity to Finnish and Turkish, but that’s all I know.
As someone who actually studied in Hungary, you probably know a heck of a lot more than I do!
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