Lindy Cameron
By Vanessa Chircop
KIT O’Malley may not be Lindy Cameron’s alter-ego but she certainly has a lot of fun writing her.
The former journalist, book editor and crime fiction lover, Lindy finally decided to let her passion get the better of her and started writing her own crime novels hoping to be Australia’s contemporary crime writer.
One of the only currently working Australian lesbian crime writers, Lindy Cameron will be taking part of Hobsons Bay’s Midsumma Festival speaking at Altona Library this Wednesday 18 from 7pm.
But Lindy doesn’t take solace in this fact and wishes there were more “gay-themed” Australian writers.
“And as a publisher (for Clan Destine Press) I’m on the hunt for more,” she said.
Lindy said she always wanted to be a writer but didn’t want to just write a typical ‘coming out of the closet’ or lesbian angst novel because that was never her experience and she wanted to write what she knew.
“My characters don’t do things because they are lesbians – she does things and she just happens to be a lesbian,” she said.
It took four years for Lindy to write her first novel ‘Blood Guilt’ which became the first of a trilogy based on a clumsy but smart and witty Melbourne private detective Kit O’Malley.
Lindy’s latest fiction, which is what she will be discussing tomorrow evening, is an espionage thriller ‘Redback’ featuring the very cool Bryn Gideon and her team of retrieval agents.
With the common theme around her novels being adventure and mystery it’s pretty safe to say Lindy is a major action junkie living vicariously through the exciting lives of her characters.
And despite her novels also sharing the common theme of murder, Lindy said her books aren’t dark.
“Everything that surrounds the murder is quite funny – you laugh in the face of all sorts of things.”
The Midsumma Festival will be running until 5 February.
For more information on local events, visit www.hobsonsbay.vic.gov.au/gowest.
To find out more about Lindy Cameron visit www.clandestinepress.com.au.
