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Michelle
Lovric writes, reviews and contributes to travel and historical features
about Venice. She also maintains her own archive of historical
illustrations of Venice. To commission an article or an interview please
contact her literary agent Victoria Hobbs at A.M. Heath
www.amheath.com
She blogs regularly on writing and other subjects at the Scattered
Authors’ Society website
An Awfully Big Blog
Adventure
and contributes frequent diary pieces on daily life in Venice to the
English Writers
in Italy website.
Michelle Lovric contributed three pieces on
modern-day life in a floating
city to Oxygen Books’
latest volume in their successful City-Pick
series. City-Pick Venice, edited by Heather Reyes,
has a foreword
by Jeff Cotton of the
Fictional Cities
website.
(Publication date: November 4, 2010).
For editorial,
Michelle Lovric often works in
collaboration with the acclaimed photographer and stylist Debbie Patterson,
who took the photographs on this page. They are copyright
© Debbie Patterson. To use them contact her at
debpatterson@btinternet.com
Possible features:
Cats of Venice
Unusual Shops in Venice
Restaurants in Venice
A Tale of Two Markets (Borough in London & Rialto in Venice)
Ten Good/Secret Things to Do in Venice
Christmas in Venice
Sample travel article:
Sweet Venice
London Times online review of
The Siege of Venice
by Jonathan Keates and The City of Falling Angels by
John Berendt
www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,23112-1846129,00.html
Review in
Australian literary magazine Meanjin of
The Seven Ordeals of
Count Cagliostro, The Greatest
Enchanter of the Eighteenth Century by Iain
McCalman
www.meanjin.unimelb.edu.au
The article is not available online at the magazine's site but it's
here.
Independent on Sunday online review of Lucia in the Age of
Napoleon by Andrea di Robilant
www.independent.co.uk/lucia-in-the-age-of-napoleon
Michelle Lovric has been interviewed
and served as a panellist on various BBC programmes. Her subjects include
the history of correspondence – particularly women’s letters and love
letters, poetry, female wit, and, of course, Venice.
Some sample broadcasts:
Michelle Lovric discussed holy anorexia and convent life in Venice and
Peru with Jenni Murray on Woman’s Hour, to mark the publication of The
Book of Human Skin in April, 2010.
BBC Radio 4, Woman’s
Hour – The Book of Human Skin
Lara Corner spoke to the Venetian
writer, Barbara Zolezzi, but first met the author of Carnevale
Michelle Lovric in the Calle Malipiero outside the house in which Casanova
was born.
BBC Radio 4, Woman’s Hour –
Casanova
Michelle Lovric, whose novels
Carnevale and The Floating Book were both inspired by and set
there, believes that Venice is the most feminine city in the world.
BBC Radio 4, Woman’s Hour – Venice
For permission to use any written material please contact my
literary agent
Victoria Hobbs at
www.amheath.com |
