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The Bradshaw Case
Nicholas Hasluck
Arcadia, 2016
Diana’s work has been excellent, and it is very enjoyable to be working with a mind in harmony with one’s own (and having an occasional chuckle at some of her proposals).
Nicholas Hasluck
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The Judge's Cat
Jane Allen
Halkett Books, 2015
Above all I must thank Diana Giese for mentoring me as I worked on rewriting and revising the book. It started out as a biography of my great-grandmother, but under her expert guidance has become so much more.
It would not have been completed without her and my gratitude is boundless.
Jane Allen
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Loving Mogadishu
Lenore Blackwood
Hybrid Publishers, 2017
Diana Giese, my mentor and editor, was positive from the start—encouraging, prodding, praising and scolding me but never accepting anything she considered to be below standard. She told me that no book was ever finished but a line had to be drawn. And when it was she did not retreat; she continued to follow the progress of the manuscript towards publication.
Lenore Blackwood
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After Love
Subhash Jaireth
Transit Lounge, 2012
Diana Giese worked with me to give the manuscript a coherent narrative shape. I am indebted to her for her support and encouragement.
Subhash Jaireth
Languid and sad, this story of fated lovers slowly and inexorably gets under your skin. The Age, 22 December 2012
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Too Much, Too Soon
Stephanie Green
Pandanus Books, 2006
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Green reveals her passions gradually. Like her characters, she is a collector of old, discarded and lost things. Time presses down throughout her stories. Younger people watch and learn from the generations before them; they sort through the belongings of somebody no longer present…the voice in many stories is close, whispery, intimate. Come here, the narrator seems to say. Look what I’ve found…
The Weekend Australian , 4 Nov. 2006
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To Silence
Subhash Jaireth
Puncher & Wattmann, 2011
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Highly plausible fictional characters help create intricate and tantalising stories around three ageing figures, all of whom have lived through terrible times…Within punctuating silences and solitudes, the joy and grief, laughter and pain, beauty and ugliness of the three lives is relived, in a finely-crafted book that reads like poetry.
Australian Book Review, 31 October 2011
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Feather Man
Rhyll McMaster
Brandl & Schlesinger, Australia, 2007
Marion Boyars, UK and USA 2008
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I wish to thank my editor, Diana Giese, for her invaluable and erudite assistance in the final shaping of my work. She knew when not to interfere, and when to apply pressure to make necessary changes.
Rhyll McMaster
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The Secret of The Stones
Through the NSW Writers’ Centre I linked with my mentor, Diana Giese. As a result of her encouragement and expertise, and a lot of rewrites, I published my first book, One Mad Rooster, in 2007. A bunch of uniquely Australian yarns for kids, it hit a chord with children. Finally those adventure yarns my parents had told me were recorded.
The success of my first venture has encouraged me to keep writing. With the help of my mentor, I embarked upon a full-length novel. This year I completed and published The Secret of the Stones, an adventure story for middle school children: Three stones with infinite power, an ancient civilisation, a sinister invisible force and a vast subterranean city within the Arctic Circle…
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The Cat of Portovecchio
Diana Giese’s support and advice have been invaluable. Working with her has been a great pleasure. It was a delight to read her almost daily emails. They were always encouraging, correct, professional and kind.
Maria Strani-Potts , whose book was edited online between Greece and Australia
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Give Them Wings
edited by Maurice Saxby and Gordon Winch
Macmillan, 1987
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The Snow in Kuala Lumpur
Penguin Random House SEA, 2023
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I loved this book.
The Snow in Kuala Lumpur is, beyond the politics and the history, the story of a man's attempt at understanding not only the changing world around him, but his place in it... Anh Tu, Goodreads
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The MacmillanAnthology of Australian Literature
edited by Ken Goodwin and Alan Lawson
Macmillan, 1990
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