In Episode 67 of Literary Prospects, we talk with author Jane Tara about her new novel, Tilda is Visible.
Jane has published over a hundred children’s books, several plays and multiple novels. Her latest novel, Tilda Is Visible, is her first novel to be published in the United States. She’s a daily meditator, a sucker for a rescue mutt and, most of all, a front-row cheerleader for her two sons. A passionate traveler, Jane spent thirteen years wandering the world and lived in five countries, but is now happily at home in Sydney, Australia.
In this interview, Jane talks about the devastating diagnosis that inspired the book, how her regular meditation practice informs her writing, finding the courage to put more of herself into her fiction, publishing her first novel in the United States (after many others in Australia), and much more…