But I know it wasn't the first story I told. My mother still has a copy of a little book (10 pages) I wrote when I was 5. I always made up stories, and to be able to write them down was a skill I developed early. The truth is, I don't remember a time when I didn't. I get asked it so often that I've been forced to think very seriously about the answer. TR: So, how long have you been writing? (the inevitable question) To write about people using words to perform magic is simply to make a metaphor out of the truth. Beyond fiction, dictatorships rise and fall on the power of language it's one of the greatest forces in human experience. They're just black marks on a white page, you know, and yet they have the power to affect us so profoundly, to create visions and invoke smells and sounds, to move us in unexpected ways. Kim Wilkins: Anyone who has ever cried reading Tennyson's "Tithonus," or had nightmares after reading Salem's Lot, or been unable to put down Matt Reilly's Ice Station has to believe in the power of words. Tabula Rasa: Not that I'm really expecting to be cursed by reading an Aurealis Award winner, but do you feel
She is a writer, as was amply demonstrated when we asked her about the magic of words. But Kim Wilkins comes from Brisbane and she is neither clichè nor clone. She is a woman writing large novels with a horrific, gothic bent. This year she has also released the first two volumes in a projected young adult trilogy concerning Gina Champion, teenage psychic. And that's just in Australia all her novels have also been released in the United Kingdom and Europe.
Copies of her third novel, The Resurrectionists, appeared in Dymocks book stores as a guaranteed good read, "Better than Anne Rice or your money back!" Her fourth novel, Angel of Ruin won the 2001 Aurealis Award for horror. The praise continued for Grimoire, her second novel in 1999. The book won the 1997 Aurealis Awards for both Horror and Fantasy. Kim Wilkins appears on the back of her first novel The Infernal wearing a garland of roses. Kim Noir An interview with Kim Wilkins by Kyla Ward, 2002 The Year of the Fruitcake, by Gillian Polack The Time of the Ghosts, by Gillian Polack Fitzpatrickįragments of a Broken Land: Valarl Undead, by Robert Hood The Art of Effective Dreaming, by Gillian Polack
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